Evidence-based Scaling-up of Evergreen Agriculture for Increasing Crop Productivity, Fodder Supply and Resilience of the maize-mixed and agropastoral farming systems in Tanzania and Malawi Interim technical report July 2012
Report of the sixth meeting of the imGoats Inhassoro Innovation Platform (IP), Maimelane, Mozambique, 26 July 2012
ICARDA Annual Report 2011
Poverty, food insecurity, natural resource degradation and climate change are global challenges; but they impact most severely on rural communities in dry areas. Addressing these challenges requires a combination of good science, integrated research-for-development approaches, and effective partnerships.
Characterization of smallholder goat production and marketing systems in Inhassoro District, Mozambique: Results of a baseline study
Local knowledge training using the AKT5 software and methodology at Mekelle University, funded by the AfricaRISING project: A report on a two week research study in the village of Abreha We Atsbeha in Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia
Mapping of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots
The objective of this report is to present data and expert knowledge on poverty and zoonoses hotspots to inform prioritisation of study areas on the transmission of disease in emerging livestock systems in the developing world, where prevention of zoonotic disease might bring greatest benefit to poor people.
Food security and land governance factsheet
In Kenya, insecure land tenure and inequitable access to land and natural resources have contributed to conflict and violence, which has in return exacerbated food insecurity. Most farmers in Kenya have no legal title for the land on which they farm.
LEARNING ROUTE: NAIROBI TO ARUSHA, FEBRUARY 2012
INDEX 2.0 RECENT EVENTS 3.0 PROTECTING LIVESTOCK MOBILITY ROUTES: LESSONS LEARNED 4.0 KENYA’S CONSTITUTION 2010 What will it mean for tenure security in rangelands? ‘Equal rights for women’ say Maasai elders 5.0 CAN VILLAGE LAND USE PLANNING WORK FOR RANGELANDS?
Lessons from the Dzud
Dzud is the Mongolian term for a winter weather disaster in which deep snow, severe cold, or other conditions render forage unavailable or inaccessible and lead to high livestock mortality. Dzud is a regular occurrence in Mongolia, and plays an important role in regulating livestock populations.
Small ruminant feeding strategies in smallholder systems: A synthesis of global experiences and recommendations for Ethiopia
Land Governance in Africa. How historical context has shaped key contemporary issues relating to policy on land
Includes colonial rule and land frontiers, late colonialism and modernisation, post-colonial nation-building and state-led development, community participation and community-based solutions, harmonising and devolving land administration, women’s land rights, pastoral land rights, market-led land redistribution in Southern Africa, foreign direct investment in land.