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Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP)

Objectives Within the KCSAP project, ILRI Mazingira aims to develop survey methods to reliably estimate GHG emission indicators and achieve the following objectives: Generate baseline estimates of GHG emission indicators (i.e. GHG emission intensities) for KCSAP Evaluate the effect(s) of TIMPs...

Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP)

Climate change and small ruminants in extensive systems in East Africa – challenges, co-benefits and options for methane mitigation (CHANCE)

Project Objectives: The project has the three following objectives: Objective 1. GHG emissions from sheep kept in extensive systems in Sub-Saharan Africa – interactions of breed and health status (enteric fermentation and manure) We will set up an in vivo animal experiment using sheep, to quantify...

Mar 2022Feb 2025

CircAgric-GHG

Approach CircAgric-GHG will draw upon state-of-the-art knowledge, research methods and models to assess how circular practices can deliver sustainable food systems Using farm typologies as a baseline, the extent of existing circular practice implementation will be evaluated Promising practices to...

Dec 2020Dec 2024

ESSA - Earth observation and environmental sensing for climate-smart sustainable agropastoral ecosystem transformation in East Africa

The theory of change to achieve the objectives Our intervention is based on a holistic approach where we will first create the possibilities for multidisciplinary research and capacity building with partners and stakeholders from various disciplines and expertise e.g. from biogeochemistry and...

environment

Jan 2018Dec 2022

Programme for climate-smart livestock systems

In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock is crucial for the livelihoods of more than 80 per cent of households that are classed as poor. As a result of a growing population, increasing income and urbanisation, demand for livestock products is rising steadily. Climate change has a negative impact on...

climate change

Jan 2016Jan 2020

The Sustainable Rangeland Management Project

Between 2010 and 2015, the Sustainable Rangeland Management Project (SRMP) assisted nine villages to carry out VLUP, and successfully piloted the implementation of joint village planning across three of these, leading to the protection through certification of a shared grazing area called OLENGAPA...

Mar 2013Mar 2017

Agricultural Innovation Program for Pakistan

Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP) for Pakistan is working to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes in the agricultural sector through the promotion and dissemination of modern technologies/practices in the livestock, horticulture (fruits and vegetables) and cereals (wheat,...

Oct 2015Sep 2018

Feed the Future - Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) for Smallholder Farmers and Pastoralists in Kenya

The Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program seeks to apply technologies and innovations widely for selected value chains (livestock, dairy, and staple root and drought-tolerant crops), so as to competitively and sustainably increase productivity; and contribute to the feed the goal of...

Apr 2015Mar 2020

Improved productivity through crop-livestock interventions in Eastern DR Congo and Burundi

Jan 2015Nov 2016

Realizing the full biomass potential of mixed crop-livestock systems in rapidly changing sahelian agro-ecological landscapes

Apr 2014Mar 2017

Enhancing the value of ecosystem services in pastoral systems

The project ‘Enhancing the value of ecosystem services in pastoral systems’ is one of five components of the EC/IFAD funded project titled “Water, Land and Ecosystems in Africa’ to be implemented from 2014-2016. The desired outcome of the project is to have policymakers, planners and pastoralists...