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Sustainable rangeland management is crucial for conservation and improvement of global grassland ecosystems, livestock performance and grassland-linked livelihoods. This applies in particular for Sub-Saharan African countries like Namibia with its rangeland-based low external input livestock husbandry. In the local savannas, productivity and resource distribution is spatially heterogeneous and temporally variable, which calls for adaptive and responsive grazing strategies to meet the needs of livestock and vegetation. The adjustment of stocking rate (SR; kilogramme livestock per hectare per year) and stocking density (SD; kilogramme livestock per hectare during a specific grazing event) is considered as a key success factor but very different rates and densities have been recommended in the past by practitioners, scientific evidence is lacking. On an Organic Namibian beef cattle and sheep farm were …