The annex and toolkits are expected to play a key role in guiding county governments to develop effective land use plans that provide a strategic direction for the counties, strengthen community land rights, and provide a framework for supporting sustainable livestock production in Kenya’s vast rangelands. Continue reading
On 29–30 August 2018, the Rangelands Initiative of the International Land Coalition will host a discussion forum on rangelands at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) to explore what the landscape approach can look like in rangelands, and how it can effectively contribute to the pursuit of global mechanisms and initiatives for sustainable landscapes. Continue reading
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Ethiopia’s Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Shiferaw Teklemariam, speaks at UNEA-2 (photo credit: ILRI/Dorine Odongo). Written by Dorine Odongo, communications and knowledge management specialist for ILRI’s Livestock and Environment Program. A new resolution on Combating desertification, land degradation and drought and promoting sustainable pastoralism and rangelands was presented and…
Well-being should be front and center in the way we define, think about and measure development resilience. Development resilience really refers to the resilience of the development process and implies continued progress toward self-defined sustainable development outcomes for human well-being. Continue reading
A newly-published article based on sustainable intensification in drylands says agricultural intensity and vulnerability should be understood as distinct characteristics and that some forms of intensification can increase vulnerability and are unsustainable. Continue reading
Natural resources and environmental management significantly affects pastoralists and other livestock keepers who live in drylands that cut across ecosystems. In such systems, wildlife and livestock move in and out of parks and community-protected areas with upstream-downstream effects along watersheds. How to incorporate these realities in an ecosystem management approach at a large scale is complex and not well understood because it … Continue reading
A new project led by Lance Robinson and Todd Crane from the Livestock Systems and Environment program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) flagship on policies and institutions for climate-resilient food systems, is investigating the links between climate adaptation and livestock science, policy and practice. Continue reading
How can policy assure that devolution in pastoralist rangelands meets the needs of all three pillars of sustainability? This was the central question in a panel discussion chaired by Lance Robinson, an environmental governance and resilience specialist at ILRI, at the 6th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture (AACAA) held in Nairobi, Kenya on 27 to 30 October 2014. Continue reading
Assessing human well-being must be an integral part of assessing resilience. Plenty of evidence suggests that pastoralism remains an economically viable use of much of East Africa’s drylands Continue reading
Sustainable livestock systems 