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The Environmental Impact of not Having Paved Roads in Arid Regions: An Example from Mongolia
There is a generally held perception that roads have negative environmental impacts. Ironically, this paradigm stems from regions where fences and regulations restrict vehicles to paved roads. The situation is different ...
An Applied Information Economics Approach to Assessing Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Presentation of An Applied Information Economics Approach to Assessing Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Gender Differentiated Preferences for a Community-Based Conservation Initiative
Community-based conservation (CBC) aims to benefit local people as well as to achieve
conservation goals, but has been criticised for taking a simplistic view of “community” and
failing to recognise differences in the ...
Enhancing the quality of African climate change science by investing in peer review capacity
The present document is a brief for the Global Sustainable Development Report 2015.
Drylands and Mission Critical Research Areas for the CGIAR. A report to the CGIAR Fund Council from the Dryland Systems Task Force.
Drylands occupy 41% of global land surface and are inhabited by more than 2.5 billion people,
living mainly in developing countries with about 16% living in chronic poverty. Shockingly 42% of
children less than 5 years of ...
Assessment of beneficiaries and benefits from ecosystem services of tree-based farming systems in the semi-arid Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
Optimization of tree cover is frequently mentioned in the context of agroforestry research and advocacy. While there have been several, mostly modeling, attempts to study the optimization of agroforestry systems, there ...
Spatial variation in the willingness to accept payment for conservation of a migratory wildlife corridor in the Athi-‐Kaputiei Plains, Kenya.
Payments
for
ecosystem
services
(PES)
are
increasingly
being
used
as
a
tool
to
promote
sustainable
ecosystem
services.
The
success
of
PES
depends
on
the
willingness
of
target
landowners
to
accept
the
payments.
In
particu ...
Meat and milk production scenarios and the associated land footprint in Kenya
Increasing demands for meat andmilk in developing countries and the associated production growth are driving the
expansion of agriculture at the expense of environmental conservation and other land uses. While considerab ...
Trends and spatial variation in water and land footprints of meat and milk production systems in Kenya
Global consumption of livestock products is increasing steadily due to human population growth, poverty
reduction and dietary changes raising the demand for already scarce freshwater and land resources. Here,
we analyze ...
ICRAF-DS Annual Report 2015
In 2015 ICRAF undertook drylands research in two transects of the West African Sahel (WAS) and the Ethiopian action site in East and Southern Africa (ESA). The research was supported through 0.7 million USD of W1/2 funding ...