Silvopastoralism and welfare of animals in Borana

Silvopastoralism and welfare of animals in Borana

The project aims to improve the livelihood resilience of people in the Borana zone in Ethiopia by strengthening silvopastoralism in a way to sustainably improve animal welfare and livestock health and production.

Silvopastoralism is a form of agroforestry that involves integrating trees, forage and the grazing of domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way. This project will develop site-specific action plans to strengthen silvopastoralism and its value chain integrating management of dry forests, rangelands and animal production.

Objectives

To work with communities, researchers and decision-makers to 

  • understand challenges, trade-offs and synergies of dry forests and linkages to animal welfare, livestock health and production, and livelihood diversification opportunities;
  • co-develop and plan actions to improve the use of dry forests, rangelands, animal welfare and production and development of new tree-linked value chains; and
  • enhance the capacity of partners to sustainably integrate the management of dry forests in natural resource management plans, to improve animal welfare and productivity, and to support new non-timber forest products value chains.

Staff

Rebecca Doyle

Rebecca Doyle

Animal Welfare Scientist