Projects

Filter by country

Filter by tag

Jul 2021Jun 2023

Local governance of natural resources for community stabilization in Central Mali (Kedo Diren)

Mali's Mopti region is endowed with immense water and land resources generating for livelihoods for millions of families. The availability of these resources made the region an ideal environment for a thriving ruminant livestock farming. However, the region has recently been the scene of violent...

International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative: Making rangelands secure

Making rangelands secure Established in 2010, the International Land Coalition (ILC) Rangelands Initiative facilitates learning between, and provides technical support to government and other actors working to make rangelands more tenure secure. Coordinated and supported globally by the...

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...

Technical Consortium for Building Resilience to Drought in the Horn of Africa

drylands

Jul 2012Jun 2015

Integrating crops and livestock for improved food security and livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe

The majority of rural dwellers in Zimbabwe depend on smallholder crop-livestock farming based on production of maize, other cereals and legumes along with small and large stock including goats and beef or dairy cattle. Crop yields and livestock off-take rates are presently low and declining, and,...

Jul 2011Dec 2012

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...

Feb 2010May 2010

An evaluation of the response to the 2008 – 2009 drought in Kenya

The Kenyan drought management system has been subject to ad-hoc review and improvement. At present the most far reaching changes since its inception are underway, including major institutional changes through the creation of a Drought Management Authority (DMA) and a National Drought Contingency...