Linkages between land-use, land degradation and poverty in semi-arid rangelands of Kenya: the case of Baringo District
The study discusses land-degradation in pastoral communities and depicts land-use system and associated human and livestock population pressure as the major determinant of vegetation cover, surface run-off, soil erosion, and species richness.
Classifying livestock production systems for targeting agricultural research and development in a rapidly changing world
A myriad of agricultural and livestock production systems co-exist in the developing countries. Agricultural research for development should therefore aim at delivering strategies that are well targeted to the heterogeneous landscapes and diverse biophysical and socioeconomic contexts the agricultural production system is operating in.
Fact Finding Mission Report on the Prevailing Land Dispute at Namwawala Village in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region
This is the report relating to the facts finding mission conducted by HAKIARDHI and LHRC as an intervention in response to an outcry from the villagers at Namwawala village in Kilombero district, Morogoro region, owing to the alleged plan of the government to take possession of the village land for investment purposes.
Harnessing Pastoralists’ Indigenous Range Management Knowledge for Drought -Resilient Livelihood Systems in the Horn of Africa
This report on harnessing pastoralists’ indigenous knowledge of rangeland management in three countries in East and the Horn of Africa is presented in two parts. The first part presents a review of the literature.
Agricultural Development under a Changing Climate
Climate change presents a profound challenge to food security and development. Negative impacts from climate change are likely to be greatest in regions that are currently food insecure and may even be significant in those regions that have made large gains in reducing food insecurity over the past half-century.
Pro-poor risk management: essays on the economics of index-based risk transfer products
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs)
as a means to address an important isurance market failure that leaves many poor and
Femact Loliondo Findings
Findings of an investigation into the eviction of pastoralists in Loliondo, Ngorongo District, Arusha, northern Tanzania. Involves conflict with the Ortello Business Corporation of Dubai.
Constraints and options to enhancing production of high quality feeds in dairy production in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda
Sustaining inclusive collective action that links across economic and ecological scales in upper watersheds
The Sustaining inclusive Collective Action that Links across Economic and Ecological Scales in upper watersheds (Scales) project fits mainly in People and Water in Catchments Theme (Theme
2) of the CPWF. Its goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation in the upper watersheds of the
tropics through improved collective action for watershed resource management within and across