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Ecosystem management can mitigate vegetation shifts induced byclimate change in West Africa
tThe welfare of people in the tropics and sub-tropics strongly depends on goods and services that savannaecosystems supply, such as food and livestock production, fuel wood, and climate regulation. Flows ofthese services ...
Restoration of Degraded Lands in West Africa Sahel: Review of experiences in Burkina Faso and Niger
This is a comprehensive literature review of land restoration activities in West Africa Sahel.
Water constraints and the inherent soil poverty are the major factors that limit crop yields and productivity of cropping systems ...
Stakeholders mapping, analysis and engagement in Southern Mali
Poster of Stakeholders mapping, analysis and engagement in Southern Mali
Relationships between soil seed banks and above-ground vegetation along a disturbance gradient in the W National Park trans-boundary biosphere reserve, West Africa
Aims
Vegetation succession depends on the availability of suitable propagules
in the soils, thus knowledge of soil seed banks is essential
for formulating effective strategies for restoring the vegetation of
degraded sites. ...
Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
The present document is a brief technical report highlighting activities relating to the options by context approach. The IFAD- funded project, “Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East ...
Jujube and tamarind for early fruit production to enhance food and nutrition security in southern Mali
Poster of Jujube and tamarind for early fruit production to enhance food and nutrition security in southern Mali
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 ...
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 ...
Food banks and technology parks
The indigenous fruit and vegetable trees of Mali in the Drylands of the West African Sahel grow in varied but well adapted environments. The highly diverse indigenous trees are year-round sources of food and nutrition ...
Determinants of market value of goats in Afghanistan
An attempt was made to identify factors influencing goat production and marketing which is at subsistence level in crop-livestock production system and to scale it up to commercial level in Nangarhar and Baghlan provinces ...