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Pastoralists Do Plan! Community-Led Land Use Planning in the Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia
This paper consolidates a set of case studies which document how pastoralists plan land and resource use in pastoral and agropastoral
areas
of Ethiopia. These case studies are drawn from the regional states of Afar, Somali, ...
Modeling resilience with applied information economics (AIE)
We created a probabilistic decision analysis tool to model the issue of resilience in the Horn of Africa through a cooperative effort between the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa (TC) and ...
Dryland restoration scaling project: Improving the productivity of dryland agriculture
Poster of Dryland restoration scaling project: Improving the productivity of dryland agriculture
Is rainfed agriculture really a pathway from poverty?
Agriculture’s potential to reduce poverty at household level is explored for rainfed crop production in
Africa and India. A literature survey of crop improvement and natural resource management interventions
demonstrates ...
A review of existing analytical frameworks, metrics and outcomes designed to measure enhanced resilience in the Horn of Africa
Presentation of A review of existing analytical frameworks, metrics and outcomes designed to measure enhanced resilience in the Horn of Africa
Gaps in spatial data for social, ecological and economic systems
The development and trialling of composite indicators, the pilot spatial tool and
indicators for use in Monitoring and Evaluation has resulted in evidential gaps in
the data. This summary paper documents these initial gaps ...
Modeling livestock feed and fodder availablity in the ASALs of the IGAD region
In the arid parts of Africa there is a strong relationship between rainfall and plant production. This is especially prevalent in areas that receive less than 300mm rain per annum, where water is the principal limiting ...
Innovation platforms for sustainable land management in East African landscapes: Stewardship, incentives, and challenges
This paper examines the potential role of innovation platforms (IPs) in facilitating the adoption and scaling up of Sustainable Land
Management (SLM) practices in East Africa, where land degradation has been a prime challenge ...
Annual forage legumes in dryland agricultural systems of the West Asia and North Africa Regions: research achievements and future perspective
Forage legumes are vitally important to animal production
in the dryland farming systems of the Mediterranean
region. Of the diverse forage-legume species
adapted to the Mediterranean climate, vetches, (Vicia
spp.), ...