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The Last Wall Against Desertification
This video is about building resilience for smallholder farmers in Marginal Drylands.
Evaluation of Advanced Potato Clones for Drought Tolerance in Arid Zone in Rajasthan, India
Potato is a cool season crop and
requires optimum soil moisture throughout
its growing period and its productivity is
hampered to a great extent in absence of these
favorable conditions (Cabello et al., 2013).
Exploitation ...
Spatial analysis for investment targeting: pilot tool
In order to better measure resilience, and to better understand and target investment that will enhance resilience, the Technical Consortium is developing a pilot spatial tool. The purpose of this resilience modeling tool ...
Katharine Downie on measuring resilience in drylands of East Africa
Katharine Downie, Coordinator for the Technical Consortium for Building
Resilience in the Horn of Africa, ILRI, at the side event, “Measuring and
Evaluating Resilience in Drylands of East Africa”. IFPRI 2020 conference ...
Assessing different systems for enhancing farm income and resilience in extreme dry region of India
Enhancing resilience among small farm households in dry regions is important to cope with extreme weather conditions and changing climate. This study presents the results of assessment made in Western Rajasthan (Thar) ...
An Applied Information Economics Approach to Assessing Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Presentation of An Applied Information Economics Approach to Assessing Resilience in the Horn of Africa
The effect of trees on preferential flow and soil infiltrability in an agroforestry parkland in semiarid Burkina Faso
Water scarcity constrains the livelihoods of millions of people in tropical drylands. Tree planting
in these environments is generally discouraged due to the large water consumption by trees, but this view
may neglect their ...
Rangelands: Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Largescale
land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land
prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are ...
Mohamed Said on measuring resilience in drylands of East Africa
Mohamed Said, Scientist, ILRI, at the side event, “Measuring and Evaluating
Resilience in Drylands of East Africa.” IFPRI 2020 conference on Building
Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, May 1517,
2014, Addis Ababa, ...
Lance Robinson on measuring resilience in drylands of East Africa
Lance Robinson, Governance and Resilience Scientist, ILRI, at the side event,
“Measuring and Evaluating Resilience in Drylands of East Africa.”; IFPRI 2020
conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, ...