Author Archives: Paul Karaimu

Addressing the challenge of harmonizing RHoMIS tool data from more than 30 countries
Africa / Agriculture / Data / Farming Systems / Food security / ILRI / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCKCRP / Presentation / Research / SLS

Addressing the challenge of harmonizing RHoMIS tool data from more than 30 countries

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At last month’s (9–13 Sep 2019) 9th Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Meeting of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL), James Hammond, farming systems analyst at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), presented on how ILRI researchers and partners are addressing the scarcity of data describing the functioning of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Continue reading →

A new project is launched to support climate-smart livestock strategies and investments in East Africa
Agriculture / CCAFS / Climate Change / East Africa / Environment / Ethiopia / Event / Kenya / Livestock Systems / Mazingira / SLS

A new project is launched to support climate-smart livestock strategies and investments in East Africa

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Originally posted on ILRI news:
It is hard to overstate the role that the livestock sector plays in ensuring food security in sub-Saharan Africa. The sector provides a vital source of income to most of the rural poor. Livestock production also provides nutritional benefits to people through their milk, meat and eggs, which are protein…

Better smallholder dairying for better incomes and climate resilience by and for the poor
Agriculture / Animal Feeding / Article / CCAFS / Climate Change / Dairying / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Environment / Livestock Systems / Resilience / SLS

Better smallholder dairying for better incomes and climate resilience by and for the poor

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The smallholder dairy sector offers a wide range of opportunities for enhancing the resilience of small-scale livestock-keeping populations while also increasing their efficiency and productivity and mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions from livestock that help cause global warming. Continue reading →

Learning Initiative on reducing land conflicts between farmers and livestock keepers
Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Event / Kenya / Livestock Systems / Pastoralism / Rangelands / Resilience / SLS / Tanzania

Learning Initiative on reducing land conflicts between farmers and livestock keepers

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The PROCASUR Corporation in Africa in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have partnered with the International Land Coalition, ILRI and the Resource Conflict Institute (RECONCILE) to present the Learning Initiative (LI): ‘Innovative practices and tools to reduce land use conflicts between farmers and livestock keepers’. The event is taking place in Kenya and Tanzania, between 22 September and 1 October 2017. Continue reading →

Animal Feeding / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / Livestock Systems / Rangelands / SLS

Application of scaling frameworks to grazing exclosures in Ethiopia

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This poster, produced for the Tropentag 2016 conference, explains how two scaling frameworks were used to identify knowledge gaps and learning opportunities in exclosure management and policy solutions to draw attention to possible ‘blind-spots’ and ‘win-win’ solutions that may affect the widespread success of exclosures in Ethiopia and elsewhere. Continue reading →

Agriculture / ILRI40 / LIVESTOCK-FISH / SLS / West Africa

Linking agricultural adaptation strategies and food security: Evidence from West Africa

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This poster, prepared for the ILRI@40 series of events, shares finding from a multi-centre study in West Africa that aims to define food secure and food insecure household profiles, assess the current levels of adoption of adaptation strategies at household level and identify the drivers of adoption. Continue reading →

Agriculture / East Africa / ILRI40 / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCK-FISH / SLS

Mapping livestock routes in Tanzania to value, service and protect them

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This poster gives an overview of a collaborative livestock routes mapping project led by the Tanzania Livestock Research Institute and the country’s Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development with support from ILRI and the International Land Coalition’s Rangeland Initiative. Continue reading →