Editing Desertification (section)

===Better managed grazing===

Restored grasslands store CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere as organic plant material. [[Grazing]] livestock, usually not left to wander, consume the grass and minimize its growth.<ref name="Tlovell">{{cite news|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2011/01/lovell-carbon-ward-climate|title=How fences could save the planet|publisher=newstatesman.com|access-date=May 5, 2013|date=January 13, 2011|archive-date=August 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814221316/http://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2011/01/lovell-carbon-ward-climate|url-status=live}}</ref>  A method proposed to restore grasslands uses fences with many small paddocks, moving herds from one paddock to another after a day or two in order to mimic natural grazers and allowing the grass to grow optimally.<ref name="Tlovell" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0221-soil_carbon_lovell_interview.html|title=Restoring soil carbon can reverse global warming, desertification and biodiversity|publisher=mongabay.com|access-date=May 5, 2013|date=February 21, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130625040133/http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0221-soil_carbon_lovell_interview.html|archive-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1953692,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117215802/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1953692,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 17, 2010|title=How eating grass-fed beef could help fight climate change|publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=May 11, 2013|date=January 25, 2010|first=Lisa|last=Abend}}</ref> Proponents of managed grazing methods estimate that increasing this method could increase carbon content of the soils in the world's 3.5&nbsp;billion hectares of agricultural grassland and offset nearly 12 years of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions.<ref name="Tlovell" />