rangelands

ILRI News on rangelands

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...

ILRI clippings

08 May 2019

Susan MacMillan

On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...

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Publications on rangelands

Journal Article

Published2019

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

Brief

Published2019

Sustainable Rangeland Management project Tanzania

Journal Article

Published2018

On-farm description and status of Nuer (Abigar) cattle breed in Gambella Regional State, Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2018

Pasture enclosures increase soil carbon dioxide flux rate in Semiarid Rangeland, Kenya

Journal Article

Published2018

The influence of protection from grazing on Cholistan desert vegetation, Pakistan

Journal Article

Published2018

Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures.

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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...