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Importance of Livestock Routes for Local, National and Regional Development: Their Mapping, Serving & Protection
On Tuesday 8th September a meeting was held on the “Importance of Livestock Routes
for Local, National and International Development: Their Mapping Servicing and
Protection.”The meeting was organised through the Rangeland ...
Rangelands: Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Largescale
land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land
prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are ...
Restoring Ethiopian drylands at scale
The goals of this review are to: (i) identify options with proven success and high potential for up-scaling in Ethiopian drylands, (ii) analyze factors underlying relative success in different agro-ecologies and under ...
Market Linkage between Community-Based Goat Breeding Cooperatives and Export Abattoirs
Small ruminant population of Ethiopia, including expert estimates of the pastoral areas, is about
66 million heads of which about 35 million is sheep (Negassa et al., 2011). Small ruminants
provide about 46% of the national ...
Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Program Framework 2012 - 2016
The Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program comprises three research-for-development projects supported by the United States Agency for International Development as ...
The development of baseline datasets, indicator selection and analytics to assess the impact of investment for IGAD member states
The activities detailed in this report form part of the work necessary to provide
a foundation upon which to develop these tools. In addition to providing the
IGAD member states with baseline datasets and appropriate ...
The current state on characterisation of indigenous breeds of sheep and goats in Ethiopia
From the beginning of domestication, the transportation of domestic animals resulted in genetic and demographic processes that explain their present-day global distribution, genetic diversity and structure. Animal genetic ...
The application of decision analysis modelling for investment targeting
In June of 2013, the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa (TC) hosted a three-day workshop to convene key experts. The purpose of this meeting was to further examine the potential for application ...
Preliminary review of datasets to inform the development of IGAD member state baselines
The activities detailed in this report form part of the work necessary to provide a foundation upon which to develop these tools. The TC aims to provide the IGAD member states with baseline datasets and appropriate ...
Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed their attention to building
resilience to droughts and other shocks and stresses. Using resilience as a framework for planning
investments in ...