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Spearheading Development through Empowering Smallholder Farmers along Beef Cattle Value Chains: a Case of Goromonzi and Murehwa Districts, Zimbabwe
Smallholder beef subsector can potentially contribute to the nation’s development. The paper presents the
results of the value chain analysis of the beef sub sector in Zimbabwe. Data was gathered through cross
sectional ...
Vegetation inventory on different land categories in Karauzyak district in July 2015
The dataset describes the abundance of most important vegetation types on different land categories collected in a field mission in July 2015 in Karabuga village and Koybak Shirkat, Karauzyak district (more data will be added)
Comparing productivity of landscape depressions in pastoral ecosystems of Jordan under different treatments
The dataset compares productivity of landscape depressions in pastoral ecosystems of Jordan under different treatments.
Potential of Small Ruminants in Andhra Pradesh for promoting rural livelihoods: Institutional and policy gaps to be addressed
Small ruminants play an important role in the food and nutritional security of millions of rural people
especially the landless, marginal and small farmers in rainfed regions in India as well as in Andhra
Pradesh. The ...
Improving market participation and competiveness of communal area beef farmers in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland East Province through better feeding and value chain initiatives
The Specific objectives of the ZimCLIFS
Project have been a) to increase the productivity of SH croplivestock households by identifying and
adapting appropriate technologies and
associated management practices,
b) to improve ...
Using satellite data to insure camels, cows, sheep and goats: IBLI and the development of the world’s first insurance for African pastoralists
This sample size was distributed across the 16 sub-locations in Marsabit on the basis proportional allocation using
the 1999 household population census statistics. There were only two exceptions to this rule: a minimum ...
Using GPS collars at the Karakalpakstan site. Presentation of Work.
The (brief) presentation describes the use of GPS collars in Karakalpakstan action site to monitor the movement of representative grazing Karakul sheep. The GPS collars were deployed on 20 August 2015 on the sheep.
On-farm evaluation and demonstration of animal drawn mouldboard and Gavin ploughs
The study reported in this book chapter was undertaken to evaluate technical performance of the mouldboard and Gavin ploughs against the traditional plough; to evaluate the impact of zero-tillage as against conventional ...
The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya
The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) product
leverages the strong correlation between a remotely
sensed vegetation index and livestock losses associated
with forage shortages to offer insurance coverage to
pastoralists ...
Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)–Lessons in extension and outreach: A case of Wajir County
Institute (ILRI), with many partners, has pursued a substantial
research for development program to design, develop and
implement market-mediated, index-based insurance products
that protect livestock keepers in arid and ...