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Spearheading Development through Empowering Smallholder Farmers along Beef Cattle Value Chains: a Case of Goromonzi and Murehwa Districts, Zimbabwe
Smallholder beef subsector can potentially contribute to the nation’s development. The paper presents the
results of the value chain analysis of the beef sub sector in Zimbabwe. Data was gathered through cross
sectional ...
Spatial planning: Making space for livestock and wildlife
Ecosystem‐based planning seeks to identify and understand the important ecological characteristics of a landscape or region, and then use this information to design plans that guide the development of ecologically‐responsible ...
Commercialization of Sweetpotato based silage: can women entrepreneurs compete favorably?
Sweetpotato silage production has been proven to be a viable business, which women and men entrepreneurs can engage in, more so considering that women are already engaged in sweetpotato root production and piggery. Aside ...
Agricultural Productivity in the WANA Region
The interest of governments, international organizations, NGOs and the general public has recently been aroused by studies considering the use of existing agricultural technology, the use of innovations in such technology ...
National and Regional Livestock Markets: Opportunities for Growth in SADC
The last forty years has seen a continuous rise in the demand for meat, milk, and other livestock products worldwide. Fueled by trends
such as increased urbanization, growing populations, and income growth in the urban ...
Report of the ninth meeting of the imGoats Inhassoro Innovation Platform (IP)
This report provides an account of the ninth meeting of the imGoats Innovation Platform (IP) held on
13th of June in Vulanjane, Inhassoro district of Mozambique. Due to project ending at the 30st of
June, this was the last ...
Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
Cash transfers and index insurance have become popular interventions by development agencies
worldwide. But they operate in radically different ways. In principle, these could offer complementary or
substitute means of ...
WELFARE IMPACTS OF INDEX INSURANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF A POVERTY TRAP
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an index-based livestock insurance (IBLI)
product designed to compensate for area average predicted livestock mortality loss in
northern Kenya, where previous work has established ...
Site intervention plans designed through the SmaRT Workshop in April 2017
The document presents the site intervention plans designed through the SmaRT Workshop in April 2017
Caracterização da produção caprina em pequena escala e dos sistemas de comercialização no Distrito de Inhassoro, Moçambique: Resultados do Estudo de Base
Brief - Caracterização da produção caprina em pequena escala e dos sistemas de comercialização no Distrito de Inhassoro, Moçambique: Resultados do Estudo de Base