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Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe
In complex mixed crop-livestock systems with limited resources and biomass scarcity, crop residues play an important but increasingly contested role. This paper focuses on farming systems in the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe, ...
Trees and Watershed Management in Karamoja, Uganda. Evidence on Demand. Climate & Environment, Infrastructure and Livelihoods. A quick desk study commissioned by DFID Uganda
Karamoja is a dryland sub-region in north-east Uganda. Having suffered historical injustices,
it now faces many difficulties, including civil and administrative challenges. Karamoja
performs poorly on development indicators ...
Re-designing smallholder farming futures for reduced vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid southern Africa
Climate change will impact the productivity of maize-based crop-livestock systems and the food security of smallholders depending on them in semi-arid southern Africa. Earlier results from testing climate change adaptation ...
Crop–Livestock Intensification in the Face of Climate Change: Exploring Opportunities to Reduce Risk and Increase Resilience in Southern Africa by Using an Integrated Multi-modeling Approach
The climate of Southern Africa is highly variable at most time-scales and follows a pronounced gradient with arid conditions in the west and humid conditions in the east. There is also a marked latitudinal rainfall ...