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ILRI News on drylands

31 Mar 2020

Climate-smart livestock systems program kicks off in Kenya’s pastoral rangelands

Like many other rangelands in East Africa, the South Rift rangelands in Kenya’s Kajiado County are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In the Ol Kirmatian and Shompole group ranches in Kajiado, pastoralism is the predominant means of livestock production and over the years the pastoralists...

Sarah KasyokaCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI News

20 Mar 2020

Livestock route mapping for improved health of humans, animals and the environment

Pastoralism is an effective and productive livelihood system that makes the best use of variably distributed natural resources in often dry rangeland areas where it has a particularly strong comparative advantage over other land uses. In order to function well, pastoralists and their livestock need...

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CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

18 Feb 2020

Making the case for new data on rangelands

A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family’s animals Photo S. Mann/ILRI “What if much of the basic information being used to describe approximately half of the world’s land surface dated from as far back as the 1960s? (And, is ‘approximately half’ even still a correct estimation?)” This is the question...

Mireille FerrariCommunications Manager

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Publications on drylands

Journal Article

Published2020

An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems

Report

Published2019

A comparative analysis of three community-based rangeland management cases: Taking successes in land restoration to scale project

Manual

Published2019

County Spatial Planning in pastoral areas, toolkit (III): Developing scenarios and formulating plan proposals

Manual

Published2019

County Spatial Planning in pastoral areas, toolkit (II): Research, mapping and situational analysis

Manual

Published2019

County Spatial Planning in pastoral areas, toolkit (I): Pre-planning, visioning and objective setting

Presentation

Published2019

ILC Rangelands Initiative–Global component

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ILRI Projects on drylands

International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative: Making rangelands secure

Making rangelands secure Established in 2010, the International Land Coalition (ILC) Rangelands Initiative facilitates learning between, and provides technical support to government and other actors working to make rangelands more tenure secure. Coordinated and supported globally by the...

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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...

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Technical Consortium for Building Resilience to Drought in the Horn of Africa

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