Programme for climate-smart livestock systems

In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock is crucial for the livelihoods of more than 80 per cent of households that are classed as poor. As a result of a growing population, increasing income and urbanisation, demand for livestock products is rising steadily. Climate change has a negative impact on...

Development of an improved vaccine for progressive control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

LegumeCHOICE: Realizing the underexploited potential of multi-purpose legumes towards improved livelihoods and a better environment in crop-livestock systems in East and Central Africa

Led by IITA, the Goal of the project is to improve food and nutrition security, reduce poverty, and enhance the production environment of smallholder farmers and rural populations, in particular women, through facilitation of the smart integration and use of multi-purpose legumes, providing food,...

Piloting climate-adaptive forage seed systems in Ethiopia (FeedSeed)

Project goal: Poor livestock keepers in the project pilot areas will be using improved forage crop seeds in the project pilot areas mitigating feed constraints for systems intensification and leading to adaptation to climate change. 50% of the farmers producing forage seed and 20% of the seed...

What is killing my cow? Re-assessing diseases in smallholder dairying in Tanzania

ILRI and its partners recently initiated a major engagement in Tanzania to generate solutions and evidence for large scale, pro-poor development of smallholder dairy value chains. Activities from several donor-funded projects are being integrated to characterize the current institutional context...

Safe Food, Fair Food 2: From capacity building to implementation

The ultimate goal of this second phase of the Safe Food, Fair Food project (Safe Food, Fair Food 2) is the improvement of livelihoods of poor producers and consumers by reducing the health risks and increasing the livelihood benefits associated with meat, milk and fish value chains. Its purpose is...

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...

Improving the Livelihoods of Poor Livestock-keepers in Africa through Community-Based Management of Indigenous Farm Animal Genetic Resources

The main outcomes of the project will be: 1) A framework for community-based management (CBM) of AnGR developed, its operational components tested and at least one program established and functional in each project country (Benin, Ethiopia and Kenya) by the end of the project period; 2) Producer/...

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.