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ILRI News on drylands

02 Apr 2019

International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative launches website

A screenshot of the International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative website (photo credit: ILRI/Sarah Kasyoka). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is pleased to announce the launch of the International Land Coalition (ILC) Rangelands Initiative website . As the coordinator of...

ILRI News

29 Mar 2019

Sarah Kasyoka

Momentum builds at UNEA for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) worked with a host of private and public organizations advocating for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists at the fourth biennial United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held 11-15 March in Nairobi this year. The assembly...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

10 Jan 2019

Peter Ballantyne

Evolving gender roles across Tunisian rangelands

Credit: ICARDA In Tunisia, the traditional common rangelands governance system, which previously defined rangeland resting periods and access for user groups, has disappeared. This system used to help manage and preserve valuable resources, but has now been replaced by an “open access” regime which...

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Publications on drylands

Journal Article

Published2018

Using biotechnology-led approaches to uplift cereal and food legume yields in dryland environments

Journal Article

Published2018

Management matters: Testing a mitigation strategy for nitrous oxide emissions using legumes on intensively managed grassland

Presentation

Published2018

Crowdsourcing information in the drylands

Presentation

Published2018

Democratizing data and transforming service provision in the pastoralist drylands; The mFACTOR

Brief

Published2018

Multilevel dialogue and planning for improving rangelands in northern Kenya

Journal Article

Published2018

Climate change impacts on selected global rangeland ecosystem services

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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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