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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Treesilience: An assessment of the resilience provided by trees in the drylands of Eastern Africa Edited
This book is the result of a consultative process, which brought together experts from
Eastern Africa and beyond to synthesize and compile existing information on the role
of trees in building resilience in the region’s ...
Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya - Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands
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populations and associated pressure on water and land. Based on a combination of social and natural science
methods, we studied a 30-year transformation process from pastoralism to a livestock-based agro-pastoral system
in ...
Spotting East African Mammals in Open Savannah from Space
Knowledge of population dynamics is essential for managing and conserving
wildlife. Traditional methods of counting wild animals such as aerial survey or
ground counts not only disturb animals, but also can be labour ...
Trees and Livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda
This report presents results of a rapid desk review of academic and grey literature on the
evidence relating to trees and livelihoods in Karamoja a region in north eastern Uganda. The
review identified the range of problems ...