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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

LegumeCHOICE: Realizing the underexploited potential of multi-purpose legumes towards improved livelihoods and a better environment in crop-livestock systems in East and Central Africa

Led by IITA, the Goal of the project is to improve food and nutrition security, reduce poverty, and enhance the production environment of smallholder farmers and rural populations, in particular women, through facilitation of the smart integration and use of multi-purpose legumes, providing food,...

N2Africa Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa

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,...

Developing and piloting index based livestock insurance to reduce poverty and vulnerability

In collaboration with various partners, ILRI has pursued a comprehensive research agenda aimed at designing, developing and implementing market mediated index-based insurance products to protect livestock keepers from drought related asset losses they face, particularly those in the drought prone...

Climate-Land Interaction Project (CLIP) in East Africa

This question is being examined in East Africa, which is undergoing extremely rapid land use change including expansion of cropping into savannah lands, increasing irrigation, deforestation, and urbanization. It is also a region with a population highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change...