Surveillance and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos (Pestforecast)

A warmer, wetter world is likely to be sicker. The Mekong is a hotspot for human, animal and plant disease, and some of the most important are highly sensitive to climate and climate changes. These diseases impose enormous burdens on human health and the agricultural sector and hinder broader...

Climate change and social learning (CCSL)

One primary objective of the CCAFS ‘Integration for Decision Making’ Theme is to explore approaches and methods that enhance knowledge-to-action linkages with a wide range of partners, and assemble data and tools for analysis and planning and thus provide improved frameworks, databases...

Piloting climate-adaptive forage seed systems in Ethiopia (FeedSeed)

Project goal: Poor livestock keepers in the project pilot areas will be using improved forage crop seeds in the project pilot areas mitigating feed constraints for systems intensification and leading to adaptation to climate change. 50% of the farmers producing forage seed and 20% of the seed...

Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches

Project goal The overall goal of the project is to improve pastoral livelihoods through sustainable market systems. The project aims to promote pastoral livelihoods diversification, facilitate robust markets for livestock and livestock products and enhance consolidation of knowledge base to enhance...

Comprehensive Livestock Environment Assessment for Improved Nutrition, Secured Environment and Sustainable Development

Project rationale The livestock sector provides livelihoods for 1 billion people, generates 40% of global agricultural GDP, and is a major contributor to food and nutrition security. Driven by continued population growth, rising affluence and urbanization global consumption of animal products is...

Pilot project on the feasibility of generating carbon credit through dairy productivity gains

The overall objective of the pilot project is to test and demonstrate the potential for linking reductions in emission intensity in dairy production to carbon credit mechanisms. To this end, the project will support the design of a methodology that will aim at generating carbon credits ensuing from...

Enhancing communities’ adaptive capacity to climate change in drought-prone hotspots of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia

Enabling livestock based economies in Kenya to adapt to climate change: A Review of payment for ecosystem services from wildlife tourism as a climate change adaptation option

This project will explore wildlife based tourism in community based conservancies as a form of adaptation to climate change. Such a source of income may potentially increase the resilience of pastoral societies to climate change. Diversification into less drought prone sources of income would...

Gender and climate-risk consideration for research on crop-livestock systems in Africa

Project objectives The aim of this study is to consolidate and advance current thinking about issues associated with gender and climate change in Africa, and to lay the foundation for research on the development of gender-sensitive regional and local innovation systems in African cropping and...

Environmentally Efficient Production Options for Intensifying Livestock Systems

An integration of mitigation and adaptation options for sustainable Livestock production under climate change (ANIMALCHANGE)

Livelihood diversifying potential of livestock based carbon sequestration options in pastoral and agro pastoral systems in Africa

Dependency on traditional livestock based livelihood options is increasingly untenable making diversification more and more urgent. Pastoral production systems have been impacted negatively by some of the following. Population pressure, increasing competition from other land uses and resultant...