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Spatial planning: Making space for livestock and wildlife
Ecosystem‐based planning seeks to identify and understand the important ecological characteristics of a landscape or region, and then use this information to design plans that guide the development of ecologically‐responsible ...
To mulch or to munch? Big modelling of big data
African farmers are poorly resourced, highly diverse and aground by poverty traps making them rather impervious
to change. As a consequence R4D efforts usually result in benefits but also trade-offs that constraint ...
Index Based Livestock Insurance in Kenya elearning course introduction
Thomson Lengulisiei from APA Insurance in Kenya introduces the Index Based Livestock Insurance e-learning course.
Planting basin (Soil and water conservation) planned comparison protocol
Agricultural productivity in arid and semi-arid areas,such as Kitui and Makueni counties of Kenya,
is limited by several challenges. These include water scarcity resulting from unpredictable and
unreliable rains, and land ...
Index Based Livestock Takaful elearning course introduction
An introduction of the Index Based Livestock Takaful (IBLT) elearning course by Hassan Bashir, CEO of Takaful Insurance of Africa.
Considering effects of temperature and photoperiod on growth and development of lablab purpureus (l.) Sweet in the search of short-season accessions for smallholder farming systems
Legumes have gained increased importance in smallholder farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa due to
their contribution to household nutrition and health and their ability to grow in low fertility soils. With
unpredictable ...
Characterization for index based livestock insurance
Pastoral populations of subSaharan
Africa are particularly vulnerable to losses in wealth and productive assets via herdmortality shocks.
Although conventional insurance mechanisms covering individual losses are not cost ...
Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale - Summary
Project goal is to reduce food insecurity and improve livelihoods of poor people living in African
drylands by restoring degraded land
and returning it to effective and sustainable
tree, crop and livestock production, ...
Options by Context dataset by site
The present document comprises sustainable options selected for the Kenya sites using the Options by Context Approach .
Communities of Practices - Creating and Sharing Knowledge
The Communities of Practice on the restoration of degraded lands aims to foster
relationships, develop learning situated in practice, create and share new knowledge to
restore degraded land, returning it to effective and ...