From Santarem we export soya primarily sourced in Mato Grosso and from local pasture land around Santarem.
He cooks local pasture-raised whole hogs over wood embers for about 12 hours in custom-made pits in the 120-seat restaurant's open kitchen.
The meal featured local pasture-raised pork with apple and fennel slaw and polenta, and Bodega Bay salmon, braised beet greens and quinoa.
Local pasture-raised animals are so appealing that some people who once shunned factory-raised meat are adding beef and pork back to their diets.
At Talula's, eggs from local pasture-raised hens, homemade mayonnaise and fresh herbs smeared onto freshly baked bread serve, just as much as do the snail rigatoni, as an edible allegory about time, care and good intentions.
Second, we use participatory mapping to identify areas local pasture managers believe are overgrazed, a particularly useful approach in lieu of reliable historical stocking rates for livestock in this region.
In Afghanistan, Chapter 3 describes how co-existence between the highly nomadic Kuchi and local pasture users in the key summer pastures of Badakhshan has broken down as rules of access have been determined by armed strongmen and militias.
Even if these organizations are much smaller and economically weaker than they used to be in Soviet times, they remain important players for the regional economy, as well as local pasture management.
By looking at two local pasture management examples, it can be seen that the local performance of natural resource management is in fact dependent on the local acceptance and legitimacy of the official regulation, the relations and interactions of the actors involved in the respective resource-related spheres, as well as the local socio-economic and institutional conditions.
