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Feasibility of pedigree recording and genetic selection in village sheep flocks of smallholder farmers
Pedigree recording and genetic selection in village flocks of smallholder farmers have been deemed infeasible by researchers and development workers. This is mainly due to the difficulty of sire identification under ...
East and Southern Africa: Key Highlights of Work So Far
East and Southern Africa: Key Highlights of Work So Far
Integrating Learning into Regional Flagships: East and Southern Africa
Integrating Learning into Regional Flagships: East and Southern Africa
Commercializing smallholder value chains for goats in Mozambique: A system dynamics approach
Goat producers in Inhassoro follow traditional management practices that lead to low supply of low quality goats. This has negative impacts on profitability, and on market access. Traders who buy in the Inhassoro locality ...
How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya
Basis risk – the remaining risk that an insured individual faces – is widely acknowledged as the Achilles Heel of index insurance, but to date there has been no direct study of its role in determining demand for index ...
Historical extension of operational NDVI products for livestock insurance in Kenya
Droughts induce livestock losses that severely affect Kenyan pastoralists. Recent index insurance schemes have the potential of being a viable tool for insuring pastoralists against drought-related risk. Such schemes require ...
Measuring development process resilience: A test from northern Kenya
Presentation of Measuring development process resilience: A test from northern Kenya
Community-Based Rangeland Management in East Africa: NRM, Land Tenure and Land Use Planning Dimensions
ILRI has ongoing projects and partnerships around rangeland management at a number of sites in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania each of which involves elements of research, stakeholder engagement, and development interventions. ...
Measuring resilience—Understanding trends in land cover changes and their potential impacts on pastoral communities
Presentation of Measuring resilience—Understanding trends in land cover changes and their potential impacts on pastoral communities