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Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies
The concern for the well-being of land is often directly related to one’s proximity to the land, be it physically, economically or culturally. Land is more precious if one’s livelihood depend on it immediately than if one ...
Understanding landscape restoration options in Kenya
Risks and opportunities for advancing gender equality for understanding landscape restoration options in Kenya
Grazing Exclosure for Watershed Management and Livelihoods in Amhara National Regional State of Ethiopia
This document provides a draft strategy for the regional up-scaling of grazing exclosure in the highlands of Amhara National Regional State of Ethiopia, proposed by International Livestock Research Institute
researchers ...
Planting Basins (soil and water conservation) revised planned comparison protocol
Field Implementation steps: Planting Basins (soil and water conservation) Planned Comparison – Modified for the 2017 Planting Season
FtF Climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies Scaling-up in Mali
Scaling-up Climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies for improved market access, food and nutritional security in Mali (SmAT-Scaling) aims at strengthening the value chain of tree products, improving the nutritional status ...
Scaling-up climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies: Key achievement under Feed The Future Initiative in Mali
The SmAT-Scaling Project is funded by USAID operating under the guidance of the USAID/Mali’s
Feed the Future (FtF) strategy and implemented by a consortium headed by the World Agroforestry
Centre (ICRAF) in partnership ...
Evaluate the survival rate and growth of planted fodder/fruit trees for degraded land restoration as a function of planting hole size
Climate variability and extremes as well as climate changes expressed through increase temperature, more severe droughts, abnormally wet periods, floods and other extreme climate events are challenging for Sub-Saharan ...
In-field water harvesting using contour bund with earth to cope with changing climate in semi-arid smallholder farming areas in Mali
Most of the population in the Sahel is small-scale resource-poor farmers who rely mainly on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. However, rainfall in this region is erratic, poorly distributed and very variable, ...
A Bayesian Assessment of Productivity and Risks to Achieve target Yields from Improved Chickpea and Mung Bean Varieties Using On-Farm Trials in Afghanistan
Legumes are essential to meet nutrition need of growing population in Afghanistan but have low productivity under the farmer practices. With an aim to introduce improved varieties of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and mung ...
Critical Review of Dryland Restoration in Tanzania: Elements of Success and Failure & Technologies Employed
Arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas cover 61 % of Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania, 1999) and, over the past decades, several restoration projects have worked toward reversing degradation in these areas (Kikula, ...