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ILRI News on rangelands

05 Jun 2020

Happy World Environment Day!

Happy World Environment Day! To celebrate World Environment Day today—5 Jun 2020—the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is focusing on something called ‘participatory rangeland management’. As rangelands cover most of the Earth’s ice-free surface, managing them in equitable as well...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

Sustainable livestock systems

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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Publications on rangelands

Infographic

Published2020

Unlocking rangeland potential through policies and institutions

Journal Article

Published2020

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

Journal Article

Published2020

Potential for soil organic carbon sequestration in grasslands in East African countries: A review

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Report

Published2019

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

Report

Published2019

Case study of use of different source of imageries and data fusion

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Journal Article

Published2019

Simulating rangeland ecosystems with G-range: Model description and evaluation at global and site scales

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ILRI Projects on rangelands

Jan 2016Jan 2020

The Sustainable Rangeland Management Project

Between 2010 and 2015, the Sustainable Rangeland Management Project (SRMP) assisted nine villages to carry out VLUP, and successfully piloted the implementation of joint village planning across three of these, leading to the protection through certification of a shared grazing area called OLENGAPA...

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...