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ILRI News on drylands

01 Aug 2019

Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020

Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Kenya State Department of Livestock within the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries & Irrigation (MALFI) are organizing next year’s Joint 24th International Grasslands and International Rangelands Congress in...

Sustainable livestock systems

02 Jul 2019

Sarah Kasyoka

Why rangelands matter, and the surprising benefits of their restoration

Originally published on Landscape News . “When people of think of rangelands, their minds don’t usually go further than the images of shrubs or endless fields of dry grasslands. But beneath and above these vast spaces, life teems and even flourishes. At the recent session on the UN Decade on...

Sustainable livestock systems

21 Jun 2019

Sarah Kasyoka

Sustainable rangeland management strategies discussed at the Convention on Biological Diversity, COP 14, Egypt

Written by Samar Tahar , programme manager, Drylands, Livelihood and Gender Programme , International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) A side event at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was organized by the International...

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Publications on drylands

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool G-1: The Four Legs of Participatory Rangeland Management.

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool G-2: Steps in participatory rangeland management.

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool 1-1: Guiding principles for community rangeland governance. .

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool G-3: Scanning and appraisal for planning interventions in a new community.

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool 4-1: Appreciating the Fourth Leg of PRM: Relations with government and customary institutions.

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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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