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International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative

International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative: Making rangelands secure

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ACTIVE Feb 2028

Emerging public health threats in Africa’s drylands

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2023

Policies and Design Processes to Enable Transformation

  • Pereira, Laura
  • Vrettos, Chris
  • Cramer, Laura K.
  • Drimie, Scott
  • Muiderman, Karlijn
  • Schapendonk, Frans
  • Stringer, Lindsay C.
  • Veeger, Marieke
  • Vervoort, Joost M.
  • Wamukoya, George
2023

Opportunities to quantify resilience of dairy cattle to environmental stressors in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Oloo, Richard Dooso
  • Ekine-Dzivenu, Chinyere C.
  • Ojango, Julie M.K.
  • Gebreyohanes, Gebregziabher
  • Mrode, Raphael A.
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Improved sorghum and pearl millet forage cultivars for intensifying dairy systems

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FromJune 2016 toNovember 2017
  • animal feeding
  • crop-livestock
  • dairying
  • feeds
  • intensification

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OPEC Fund for International Development

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  • Kennady, Vijayalakshmy
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A journey towards a gender-responsive tool for livestock feed assessments

  • Njiru, Nelly
  • Njuguna-Mungai, Esther
  • Terfa, Zelalem
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Researchers and smallholder farmers in different countries used a user-friendly poultry feed formulation app developed by SAPLING: Poultry value chain

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Gender dynamics in feed and forage production and utilization in Mpigi District, Uganda

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