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What "carrying capacity" actually means for herders

By GreenZun Team · April 8, 2026

What "carrying capacity" actually means for herders

Carrying capacity is the number of livestock a piece of land can support without degrading. Push past it for too long and the rangeland's ability to recover starts to erode — the core driver of desertification across the steppe.

GreenZun estimates carrying capacity from predicted plant biomass and converts it into familiar units, then compares it against actual livestock numbers. The result is a simple status for each area: below, at, or above what the land can sustain.

On the platform, those statuses become the colored cells you see on the map. Green means there's headroom; red means grazing pressure has crossed the line. Our goal is to make that distinction visible early enough to do something about it.

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