rangelands

ILRI News on rangelands

08 Aug 2019

#ThrowbackThursday Video—Misku and Gebremichael’s stories

Don’t miss these two superb and VERY short videos describing how new ideas in animal husbandry are transforming Ethiopian incomes, animal pastures and livestock livelihoods. Misku’s Story A 40-year old woman from central-western Ethiopia transforms her family’s life through...

ILRI clippings

01 Aug 2019

Susan MacMillan

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...

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Publications on rangelands

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 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...