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Smallholder goat production and marketing a gendered baseline study from Inhassoro District Mozambique
Despite emerging public and donor attention on women and agriculture, relatively few studies are based
on gender analysis of sex-disaggregated quantitative data, particularly on women’s involvement in marketing of livestock ...
The multi-functionality of goats in rural Mozambique: Contributions to food security and household risk mitigation
It is widely acknowledged that goats in developing countries fulfill multiple functions and can contribute to improved
livelihoods of smallholders. The multi-functionality of goats in rural Mozambique however is fairly ...
Guia prática para a implementação de plataformas de inovação no sector pecuário
O “Projecto de Desenvolvimento de Cadeias de Valor nos corredores de Maputo e Limpopo” (PROSUL)é um projecto do
Governo de Moçambique, formulado com apoio do Fundo Internacional para o Desenvolvimento da Agricultura (FIDA). ...
Empirical evaluation of sustainability of divergent farms in the dryland farming systems of India
The present study argues that there are heterogeneous farm systems within the drylands and each farm
system is unique in terms of its livelihood asset and agricultural practice, and therefore in sustainability.
Our method ...
Learning Large-Scale Dynamic Discrete Choice Models of Spatio-Temporal Preferences with Application to Migratory Pastoralism in East Africa
Understanding spatio-temporal resource preferences is
paramount in the design of policies for sustainable development. Unfortunately, resource preferences are often unknown to policy-makers and have to be inferred
from ...
Institutional Linkages for Landscape Level Governance: The Case of Mt. Marsabit, Kenya
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 Impact of Land Use Change on the 3-D Structure of Shrubland and Savanna Dryland Ecosystems
A terrestrial LiDAR scanner was used to compare the vegetation of two nearby sites with different management regimes.
Drylands cover 41% of the terrestrial land surface and provide $1 trillion in ecosystem goods and
services ...
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 ...
Principles of Silage Making
Owing to the seasonal nature of rainfall in the subtropics,
rangeland and planted pasture only supply high quality
green forage for a quarter of the year, leaving animals to
struggle with poor quality forage for the rest ...
The potential of replacing conventional dairy supplements with forage legumebased diets in Zimbabwe’s smallholder dairy sector
The main objective of this study is to
determine the
effect of replacing
commercial diets with
forage legume diets on
VFI, milk yield, quality and
economic returns.