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ILRI News on drylands

14 Jun 2019

Third edition of the Sustainable Rangeland Management project newsletter now available

For nearly 10 years, the Sustainable Rangeland Management Project has been working with local and national authorities in Tanzania to secure rangelands for pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and smallholder farmers through joint village land use planning and land certification including the provision...

Sustainable livestock systems

29 May 2019

Sarah Kasyoka

International Land Coalition national engagement strategy launched in Cameroon

Written by Musa Unman Ndamba On 29 and 30 November 2018, a rangelands working group (RWG) for Cameroon was launched in Yaoundé as part of a national engagement strategy (NES) of the International Land Coalition (ILC) . The launching workshop, which was organized by the Mbororo Social and Cultural...

IBLI blog

28 May 2019

Sarah Kasyoka

Using radio to builds herders’ trust in livestock insurance in Isiolo County

The Kenya Livestock Insurance Program (KLIP) insures the livestock of pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid counties of Kenya. Implemented with technical assistance from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), KLIP limits livestock losses through early compensation allowing...

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Publications on drylands

Journal Article

Published2019

Open property and complex mosaics: Variants in tenure regimes across pastoralist social-ecological systems.

Journal Article

Published2018

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

Journal Article

Published2018

A community-based evaluation of population growth and agro-pastoralist resilience in sub-Saharan drylands

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

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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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