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Author Archives: ILRI Communications
RHoMIS – a rural household multiple indicator survey tool
RHoMIS was developed to efficiently collect a series of harmonized and standardized performance indicators at farm household level, especially targeting smallholder farmers in developing (or now maybe better: low income) countries. Continue reading
Africa / Article / CCAFS / Data / Farming Systems / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / LIVESTOCK-FISH / SLS
Drivers of household food availability in sub-Saharan Africa based on big data from small farms
The study quantifies the importance of off-farm income and market conditions across sites differing strongly in agroecology and derives generally applicable threshold values that determine whether farm households have enough food available to feed their families. Continue reading
Animal Feeding / Article / Climate Change / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Environment / Farming Systems / ILRI / Intensification / Kenya / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCK-FISH / SLS
Meat and milk production scenarios and the associated land footprint in Kenya
Increasing demands for meat and milk in developing countries and the associated production growth are driving the expansion of agriculture at the expense of environmental conservation and other land uses. While considerable attention has been directed at improving crop yields to alleviate the pressure on land, there has been far less attention on the implications … Continue reading
Article / Environment / ILRI / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Livestock-Water / SLS / Water
Assessing water resource use in livestock production: A review of methods
This paper reviews existing methods for assessing livestock water resource use, recognizing that water plays a vital role in global food supply and that livestock production systems consumes a large amount of the available water resources. Continue reading
Africa / CCAFS / East Africa / ILRI / SLS
East Africa livestock and climate change workshop – Apply for participation grants (deadline 19 Jan 2015)
The consortium of the EU Animal Change project is organizing a workshop in Nairobi on 2 and 3 February 2015. Focusing on “Livestock and Climate Change”, the workshop will present results from the Animal Change project and successful approaches to implement climate smart livestock systems. If you are an early-career scientists from East Africa, we welcome your participation to join a workshop on livestock and climate change. A limited number of grants is available to cover participation costs of early career scientists.
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Participatory Systems Assessment
Participatory Natural Resource Management (NRM) at local levels among pastoralists contributes to evidence-based ecosystem management at community level in the governance of common and privately managed land and water resources. Continue reading
Governance models
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Social Sustainability and Tipping points in African Drylands are of key importance for sustainable livestock production. Continue reading
Livestock Markets
The Livestock Systems and Environment (LSE) program aims at working to enhance community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems, resulting to farmers and pastoralists with better access to more diverse, efficient and equitable markets. Continue reading
Sustainable livestock systems 