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Dryland Development Programme: Inception Year narrative report "A farmer-led Programme to Enhance Water Management, Food Security, and Rural Economic Development in the Drylands of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, and Kenya
Integrated programme on food and water security, agricultural commodity marketing, governance, institutional development and policy influencing .
Determinants of market value of goats in Afghanistan
An attempt was made to identify factors influencing goat production and marketing which is at subsistence level in crop-livestock production system and to scale it up to commercial level in Nangarhar and Baghlan provinces ...
Spatial variation in the willingness to accept payment for conservation of a migratory wildlife corridor in the Athi-‐Kaputiei Plains, Kenya.
Payments
for
ecosystem
services
(PES)
are
increasingly
being
used
as
a
tool
to
promote
sustainable
ecosystem
services.
The
success
of
PES
depends
on
the
willingness
of
target
landowners
to
accept
the
payments.
In
particu ...
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 ...
Marketing Channel Selection by Smallholder Farmers
This article aims at analyzing Beninese smallholder famers’ selection
of high value markets, such as export and processing-oriented
marketing channels, in the pineapple supply chain. Four main
marketing channels were ...
Urban consumption of meat and milk and its green and blue water footprints—Patterns in the 1980s and 2000s for Nairobi, Kenya
The problem: Various studies show that the developing world experiences and will continue to experience a rise
in consumption of animal proteins, particularly in cities, as a result of continued urbanization and income ...
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 ...
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 ...
Improving food security, nutrition and incomes: the contribution of small stock
Despite years of work, the development indicators relating to subSaharan
Africa (SSA) often disappoint. For example, the highest
incidence of undernourishment in the world occurs in SSA where one out of every three people ...
Assessing the impacts of livestock production on biodiversity in rangeland ecosystems
Biodiversity in rangelands is decreasing, due to intense utilization
for livestock production and conversion of rangeland into cropland;
yet the outlook of rangeland biodiversity has not been
considered in view of future ...