Participatory rangeland resource mapping as a valuable tool for village land use planning in Tanzania
Report of the second meeting of the imGoats India National Advisory Committee, 10-11 February 2012
Report of the Second Meeting of the imGoats Mozambique National Steering Committee, Maputo, Mozambique, 7 February 2012
Knowledge Management and Information Services: Report on 2011 and priorities for 2012
Participatory rangeland resource mapping as a valuable tool for village land use planning in Tanzania
This Issue Paper No.2 is part of the series Making Rangelands Secure, a learning initiative supported by ILC, IFAD, RECONCILE, IUCN-WISP and Procasur. The Making Rangelands Secure Initiative has been established by a group of organisations seeking to improve security of rights to rangelands.
Making rangelands secure: Past experience and future options
Our land, our animals: Herding in Kenya's Kitengela rangelands
Nickson Parmisa, a resident of Kitengela just outside Nairobi in Kenya, talks about the challenges of livestock herding in the face of climate change.
Report of the fifth meeting of the imGoats Jhadol-Kanthariya innovation platform, 11 January 2012
Developing a vaccine for a highly contagious cattle disease
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is a highly contagious disease that affects cattle throughout most of sub Saharan Africa. It is one of the most serious livestock diseases with greatest impacts in pastoralist areas. Up to 15% of infected animals die: milk yields of infected cows drop by up to 90%: meat production is reduced, and infected draught oxen are less able to work.
Integrated natural resource management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From concept to practice
This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI).
Herding livelihoods in transition: Kenya's Kitengela Olmakao Cultural Village
This is the story of a group of women from the Kitengela rangelands area, which boarders the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, who have come together to form the Olmakao Cultural Village to provide alternative sources of income to their livestock-based livelihoods in the face of increasingly frequent droughts that have decimated their herds.