Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an emerging viral disease spreading throughout Kenya and East Africa causing major losses in the small stock. This study is an attempt to evaluate small stock management practices in Turkana pastoral system, Kenya as predictors of PPR outbreaks.

Las prácticas pastoriles en las tierras altas de los Andes se constituyen como una estrategia productiva y una forma de vida que implica una particular concepción, percepción y vivencia de los espacios.

G-Range is a global model that simulates generalized changes in rangelands through time,

created with support from the International Livestock Research Institute. Spatial data and a set

of parameters that control plant growth and other ecological attributes in landscape units

combine with computer code to represent ecological process such as soil nutrient and water

Rangelands cover 30 per cent of the global land surface. They support a considerable share of the global ruminant value chains, are habitat for a high plant and animal diversity and have various ecological, economic and social functions. But rangelands are currently under pressure from global change processes.

This sourcebook entitled “Addressing water,food and poverty problems together: Methods,tools and lessons” is part of a wider process to capitalize on results from the Phase 1 of CPWF (2004-2008).

This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases.

Paper reflects on the work of the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands between its formation in April 2008 and the elections of March 2013. Begins by summarising the historical, political and institutional contexts within which the Ministry was created, as well as the multiple narratives that have driven policy in Kenya’s drylands over time.

Aunque el efecto del pastoreo en los ecosistemas ha sido ampliamente estudiado, muchos de los resultados a menudo resultan contradictorios. Esta ambigüedad es debida en parte a la capacidad de los herbívoros para dar forma a los sistemas naturales, favoreciendo a especies particulares de plantas o ejerciendo un efecto negativo o indiferente sobre otras.