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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 ...
Index-based insurance: Lottery ticket or insurance?
Environmental shocks are drivers of poverty as well as a
fact of life in many rural areas of the developing world. In
the developed world, agricultural insurance provides some
protection from such calamities. But conventional ...
Using satellite data to insure camels, cows, sheep and goats: IBLI and the development of the world’s first insurance for African pastoralists
This sample size was distributed across the 16 sub-locations in Marsabit on the basis proportional allocation using
the 1999 household population census statistics. There were only two exceptions to this rule: a minimum ...
Trends and spatial variation in water and land footprints of meat and milk production systems in Kenya
Global consumption of livestock products is increasing steadily due to human population growth, poverty
reduction and dietary changes raising the demand for already scarce freshwater and land resources. Here,
we analyze ...
Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
The project website is designed to operate through bringing key partners from the public and private sectors, across research, extension, market, and governance institutions to work together in an iterative co-learning ...
The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya
The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) product
leverages the strong correlation between a remotely
sensed vegetation index and livestock losses associated
with forage shortages to offer insurance coverage to
pastoralists ...
Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)–Lessons in extension and outreach: A case of Wajir County
Institute (ILRI), with many partners, has pursued a substantial
research for development program to design, develop and
implement market-mediated, index-based insurance products
that protect livestock keepers in arid and ...
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 ...
Making Ragelands Secure
INDEX
2.0 RECENT EVENTS
4.0 PASTORALISTS DO PLAN!
EXPERIENCES OF MURSI LAND USE
PLANNING, SOUTH OMO ETHIOPIA
5.0 PROGRESS OF THE COMMUNITY
LAND BILL, KENYA
6.0 DEVELOPING SILVOPASTORAL
SYSTEMS FOR MORE SECURE ACCESS
TO ...
Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists
Pastoralist households across East Africa face major livestock losses during drought periods that can cause persistent
poverty. For Kenya and southern Ethiopia, an existing index insurance scheme aims to reduce the ...