Gender and climate-risk consideration for research on crop-livestock systems in Africa

Project objectives The aim of this study is to consolidate and advance current thinking about issues associated with gender and climate change in Africa, and to lay the foundation for research on the development of gender-sensitive regional and local innovation systems in African cropping and...

Environmentally Efficient Production Options for Intensifying Livestock Systems

An integration of mitigation and adaptation options for sustainable Livestock production under climate change (ANIMALCHANGE)

Livelihood diversifying potential of livestock based carbon sequestration options in pastoral and agro pastoral systems in Africa

Dependency on traditional livestock based livelihood options is increasingly untenable making diversification more and more urgent. Pastoral production systems have been impacted negatively by some of the following. Population pressure, increasing competition from other land uses and resultant...

Mutual learning of livestock keepers and scientists for adaptation to climate change in pastoral areas

With increasing climate variability farmers strategies to buffer against variations become of predominant importance. This applies even more for pastoral livestock keepers since they earn their livelihood in temporally and spatially highly variable environments under high production risk. In recent...

Development of greenhouse gas inventories for livestock in the developing world

Adaptation to climate change for smallholder agriculture in Kenya

Dynamic interactions among people, livestock, and savanna ecosystems under climate change (EACLIPSE)

Genesis reversed: Climate change impacts on agricultural and livelihood systems in mixed crop livestock systems of Africa

Recent work points to the possibility of climate-induced livelihood transitions in the mixed crop-livestock rainfed arid-semiarid systems of Africa. These mixed systems cover over one million square kilometres of farmland in West, eastern and southern Africa. Crop failures are already quite common...

Global Futures of Agriculture

Climate-Land Interaction Project (CLIP) in East Africa

This question is being examined in East Africa, which is undergoing extremely rapid land use change including expansion of cropping into savannah lands, increasing irrigation, deforestation, and urbanization. It is also a region with a population highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change...

Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists to climatic change in West and Southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach.

Project Objectives/Goals: The goal of this project is to increase the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists, who are one of the most vulnerable groups in Africa, to climate variability and the expected effects of future climate change. Outputs: 1. Estimation and documentation of the effects of climate variability and change on the primary productivity of crops, rangelands and livestock, and associated livelihoods impacts.