Linking 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...

Fodder markets in East Java: Identifying interventions to improve market performance and quality

Identification and implementation support of mitigation priorities and opportunities in rice-dominated landscapes

Research questions What is the net GHG balance for agriculture across Vietnam and where are emissions hotspots? What is the potential for mitigation, and where are the mitigation hotspots for rice landscapes? How do mitigation priorities and opportunities differ across farmscapes (e.g. Mekong delta...

N2Africa Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa

Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches

Project goal The overall goal of the project is to improve pastoral livelihoods through sustainable market systems. The project aims to promote pastoral livelihoods diversification, facilitate robust markets for livestock and livestock products and enhance consolidation of knowledge base to enhance...

Evaluating the Impacts of Agricultural Development Programming on Gender Inequalities, Asset Disparities, and Rural Livelihoods

Project Objectives Build capacity of project teams and their evaluation partners to undertake integrated economic and social gender impact assessments, to collect and analyze sex-disaggregated data, and use the results to design, implement and evaluate strategies to enhance project impacts on women...

Natural resources in project pilot sites conserved and sustainably managed for the benefit of endemic ruminant livestock, ecosystem services, and human livelihoods

Activities will also address government policies and programs that can enhance habitat management of endemic ruminant breeds. In order to do this, activities must benefit from the participation and leadership of local populations and authorities and the establishment of locally adapted and adopted regulations on communal use of natural resources, requiring the implementation or the reinforcement of systems of training, education and support of the populations in implementing community management and essential activities for habitat conservation.

Enhancing livelihoods through livestock knowledge systems (ELKS)

This joint TATA-ILRI ELKS programme is an ambitious initiative to put the accumulated knowledge of advanced international livestock research directly to use by disadvantaged livestock rearing communities in rural India. ELKS objective To support SRTT & its Allied Trusts and their partners to enhance livestock based livelihoods in the hilly /tribal areas in Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand (India) by filling knowledge gaps, strengthening capacities and facilitating pro-poor policies.

Reducing the impact of infectious diseases on village poultry production in Ethiopia

Chickens have a high socio-economic value and are important to those (often landless) people who do not own cattle, sheep, or goats. Poultry production is particularly important to women, who often own and manage the chickens and control cash from sales. The resulting income is often used to support education of children.

Improving the Livelihoods of Poor Livestock-keepers in Africa through Community-Based Management of Indigenous Farm Animal Genetic Resources

The main outcomes of the project will be: 1) A framework for community-based management (CBM) of AnGR developed, its operational components tested and at least one program established and functional in each project country (Benin, Ethiopia and Kenya) by the end of the project period; 2) Producer/...