Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

CRP 1.1 was presented at the 4th Fund Council Meeting in April 2011. CRP1.1 targets the poor and highly vulnerable populations of the dry areas. It aims to develop technology, policy and institutional innovations to improve livelihoods, using an integrated systems approach. The program focuses on four strategic research themes (SRTs ) which cut across five focus regions.

Spatially explicit models are becoming increasingly important tools for simulating land-use change. In this study, we formulated and tested models that incorporated spatial correlates of agricultural expansion and used them to predict local- and landscape-scale patterns of agricultural land-use change and its implications in the Maasai-Steppe of Northern Tanzania.

Several national economic and sectoral policies and strategies were developed, adopted

and being implemented over the last couple of decades in Ethiopia. These policies and

strategies provide frameworks and guides for economic management in a wide range of

aspects. There are policies that support and lay a good ground for the development and

This Decree consisting of 17 articles aims at establishing the General Authority for the management, development and protection of the desert lands with also the membership of a representative of the General Union of the Peasants.

Estimates of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions attributable to livestock range from 8 to 51%. This variability creates confusion among policy makers and the public as it suggests that there is a lack of consensus among scientists with regard to the contribution of livestock to global GHG emissions.

This study is carried out in semi-arid to arid Karkheh Basin of Iran, where massive water allocation planning is on the way, but a comprehensive knowledge on basin

hydrology and impact of these developments on different water uses and users across the basin are lacking.