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ReportPublished2021Urban food markets in Africa – Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach (Pull-Push project): Burkina Faso stakeholders’ workshop reportcapacity strengtheningfood safetyfood securitylivestock
Journal ArticlePublished2022State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major cropsagriculturecropsfeedsfodderforageslivestock
ReportPublished2021Livestock production system in Ward 12, Tsholotsho District, Zimbabwe: Characterization and potential productivity enhancementanimal productionlivestock
CompletedJun 2015May 2019Linking biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in the Serengeti-Mara region, East Africa: Drivers of change, causalities and sustainable management strategies (AfricanBioServices)Climate change represents a major threat to global biodiversity and in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, it is apparent as increased variability and irregularity of rainfall. Africa harbours the fastest growing human population in the world and the pressure on natural resources in the Serengeti-Mara...animal diseasesbiodiversityclimate changeenvironmentlivelihoods
CompletedJan 2009Dec 2013Breeding strategies for conservation and sustainable use of livestock genetic resources in Sub-Saharan Africaanimal breedingbiodiversityindigenous breeds
CompletedJul 2011Dec 2012Enabling 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 optionThis 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...biodiversityclimate changedroughtdrylandsenvironmentlivestock systemsNRMpastoralism