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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 ...
Mt. Marsabit, Kenya: an Assessment of the Governance System
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 ...
Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed their attention to building
resilience to droughts and other shocks and stresses. Using resilience as a framework for planning
investments in ...
The LUCID Model and Its Role in Supporting Land Use Planning Processes in Southern Ethiopia
Decision support systems (DSS) are interactive, computer-based tools that are used in a variety of disciplines. They are intended to enable decision-makers to better use information and improve both the process of ...
Landscape management and governance, Garba Tula, Isiolo, Kenya
Communities organize themselves in unique ways into social/functional units based on their cultural aspirations,
threats and resources that they depend on. In many cases, these resources and the ecosystems to which they ...
Landscape management and governance, Il Ngwesi Group Ranch-Laikipia, Kenya
The International livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has commissioned a set of case studies
as part of efforts to develop deeper understanding of NRM management in Africa’s drylands
and contribute to a typology of ...