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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 ...
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 ...
National Capacity and Constraints to Implement Ethiopia’s Agriculture Sector GTP II with a Focus on the Extension System
The author gives background on the Agricultural GTP II . He explains the definition and concept of agricultural extension, of agricultural systems and then gives an observation on the existing capacity of the Ethiopian ...
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, ...
CRP Dryland Systems - ILRI - 2015 Technical and Financial Report - Final
From 2012, the development of a cutting-edge econometric response model by the IBLI team at ILRI enabled expansion into new areas by identifying the relationship between the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) ...
Innovation platforms in practice: lessons learned from SARD-SC wheat initiative in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Sudan
Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops in Africa (SARD – SC) is a multi-national initiative led by the CGIAR and funded by the African Development Bank. With an aim to enhance food and nutritional ...
Soil-Landscape Estimation and Evaluation Program (SLEEP) to predict spatial distribution of soil attributes for environmental modeling
The spatial distribution of surface and subsurface soil attributes is an important input to environmental modeling.
Soil attributes represent an important input to the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), which influence ...
Historical extension of operational NDVI products for livestock insurance in Kenya
Droughts induce livestock losses that severely affect Kenyan pastoralists. Recent index insurance schemes have the potential of being a viable tool for insuring pastoralists against drought-related risk. Such schemes require ...