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Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us
The challenge to increase food production is greater than ever,
as the world’s population is set to increase to a predicted nine billion
by 2050 (United Nations, 2008), requiring a 70 to 100% increase in
global food ...
Commons Embedded in Landscapes: Toward a Research Agenda on Landscape Level Governance
It is been observed that local level commons “are embedded in a multi-level world”. Resources under common property tenure exist side by side with resources under other forms of tenure within larger landscapes. Moreover, ...
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 ...
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 ...