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Sustainable livestock systems

Why rangelands matter, and the surprising benefits of their restoration

Originally published on Landscape News . “When people of think of rangelands, their minds don’t usually go further than the images of shrubs or endless fields of dry grasslands. But beneath and above these vast spaces, life teems and even flourishes. At the recent session on the UN Decade on...

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Research approaches required for supporting the empowerment of pastoral dairy women

Maasai woman feeding her child milk (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The especially rich and clearly written results of a livestock-gender-nutrition study in Tanzania deserve wide attention. As the paper’s authors explain: ‘In the context of empowerment and nutrition studies have found that when...

Sustainable livestock systems

Sustainable rangeland management strategies discussed at the Convention on Biological Diversity, COP 14, Egypt

Written by Samar Tahar , programme manager, Drylands, Livelihood and Gender Programme , International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) A side event at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was organized by the International...

Sustainable livestock systems

Third edition of the Sustainable Rangeland Management project newsletter now available

For nearly 10 years, the Sustainable Rangeland Management Project has been working with local and national authorities in Tanzania to secure rangelands for pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and smallholder farmers through joint village land use planning and land certification including the provision...

Sustainable livestock systems

International Land Coalition national engagement strategy launched in Cameroon

Written by Musa Unman Ndamba On 29 and 30 November 2018, a rangelands working group (RWG) for Cameroon was launched in Yaoundé as part of a national engagement strategy (NES) of the International Land Coalition (ILC) . The launching workshop, which was organized by the Mbororo Social and Cultural...

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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...

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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—The Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...

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International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative launches website

A screenshot of the International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative website (photo credit: ILRI/Sarah Kasyoka). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is pleased to announce the launch of the International Land Coalition (ILC) Rangelands Initiative website . As the coordinator of...

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Momentum builds at UNEA for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) worked with a host of private and public organizations advocating for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists at the fourth biennial United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held 11-15 March in Nairobi this year. The assembly...

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The many gifts of livestock—A view from Kenya

Andrew Tuimur, chief administrative secretary at the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation and a member of the ILRI Board of Trustees (photo credit: ILRI). The following remarks, published last week by Devex during the fourth meeting of the United Nations Environment...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Evolving gender roles across Tunisian rangelands

Credit: ICARDA In Tunisia, the traditional common rangelands governance system, which previously defined rangeland resting periods and access for user groups, has disappeared. This system used to help manage and preserve valuable resources, but has now been replaced by an “open access” regime which...

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Livestock and trees: A more perfect union

Illustration by Remy Charlip via Pinterest: Cover of Four Fur Feet, written by Margaret Wise Brown. Livestock provide ecological services too great to warrant their complete removal from the landscape. ‘. . . Sequestering carbon has become a topic essential to the broader conversation about how our...