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The potential and uptake of remote sensing in insurance: A review
Global insurance markets are vast and diverse, and may offer many opportunities for remote sensing. To date, however, few operational applications of remote sensing for insurance exist. Papers claiming potential application ...
Preliminary review of datasets to inform the development of IGAD member state baselines
The activities detailed in this report form part of the work necessary to provide a foundation upon which to develop these tools. The TC aims to provide the IGAD member states with baseline datasets and appropriate ...
Consolidated Programme Implementation plan 2015-2018: Drylands Development Programme (DryDev)
The Drylands Development Programme (DRYDEV) is a five‐year initiative (August 2013 to July 2018)
funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Netherlands, with a significant financial
contribution from World ...
Pastoralism and ecosystem-based adaptation in Kenyan Masailand
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the potential for pastoral communities inhabiting. Kenyan Masailand to adapt to climate change using conservancies and payments for ecosystem services. Design/methodology/approach ...
Knowledge management and research for resilience in the Drylands of the Horn of Africa
This paper sets out to explore the issues around
knowledge management - what it is and how it might
be applied, particularly with a view to enhancing
resilience in the Horn of Africa and contributing
to the improved impact ...
Farmer Feedback and Community of Practice Workshop Guide for Assessing the Performance of Planned Comparisons
The main objective of this farmer feedback and community of practice workshop guide is to provide community facilitators and enumerators with a check-list of questions that they can use to elicit farmers’ feedback on the ...
A dataset of land restoration options
This report aims to focus in on three dryland landscapes to assess the extent of land degradation in the form of soil erosion prevalence as well as the presence of land restoration options, including soil-water conservation ...
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 ...
Atlas of Land Restoration Options in East Africa and the Sahel
We created a matrix of restoration options for each country, including potential benefits of the technologies and possible constraints.
La parité hommes-femmes dans le secteur agroforestier: Incidences pour la recherche-action
Les femmes en Afrique subsaharienne contribuent
énormément à l’économie agricole, toutefois, leur
accès limité, par rapport aux hommes, aux
ressources et opportunités de production, les
empêchent d’atteindre une production ...