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Crop and Livestock Production for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Rural Zimbabwe
Farmers in Zimbabwe face many challenges, including low soil fertility, low and erratic rainfall, and poor market access. They are therefore often poor and vulnerable to risks and shocks. With increasing human populations ...
Modeling potential livestock losses and vulnerability due to drought in the IGAD region
The Horn of Africa is predominantly comprised of arid or semi-arid lands, and is a naturally drought-prone region. With increasing pastoral or agro-pastoral land use, the environment and pastoral communities in this region ...
Report of the eight meeting of the imGoats Inhassoro Innovation Platform (IP)
This report provides an account of the eight meeting of the imGoats Innovation Platform (IP) held on 7th of March in Chitsotso, Inhassoro district of Mozambique, facilitated by the IP Secretariat President with support ...
Experimental Designs for Alley Cropping to Estimate Shrub x Grass Interaction
Alley cropping, an agroforestry system, comprises rows of perennial shrubs or trees bordering
the alleys of grasses/crops. An appropriately chosen alley cropping provides improvement in
feeds for small ruminants, food ...
An insight on farmers’ willingness to pay for insurance premium in South India: hindrances and challenges
Farmers are vulnerable to substantial weather risks in many parts of the country. In recent years, weather-based crop insurance has been promoted in India for rain-fed crops to provide insurance against risks and losses ...
Malawi Diet Diversity and Food Security for Agricultural Biodiversity Assessment: Questionnaire
The questionnaire elicited information on foods consumed and their sources for selected mothers and children of the households interviewed for the ABD-Assessment (24-hour recall); information on young and child feeding ...
Participatory Selection of Promising Wheat, Chickpea and Lentil Cultivars (Chakwal-Pakistan)
3 promising variety (Wheat, Chickpea and lentil) selected based on farmers evaluation and data analysis (report);
Mt. Marsabit, Kenya: an Assessment of the Governance System
It is been observed that local level commons “are embedded in a multi-level world” in which resource boundaries and social boundaries rarely coincide. Resources under common property tenure exist side by side with resources ...
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 ...
NRM and institutional options for sustainable management of silvi-pasture systems on community lands for enhanced eco-system services
Three Pasture development committees were formed together with a women subcommittee to ensure the role and responsibility of women for proper management of CPRs in three villages. In silvi-pasture system of Govindpura soil ...