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A better way for vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters and livestock herders alike—By ecologist Ian Scoones

Goat herds returning home at sunset in Namunyak Conservancy of the Northern Rangelands Trust. Kenya’s exceptional biological riches lure visitors from around the world, making wildlife tourism one of the top two earners of foreign exchange. USAID/Kenya support ensures that wildlife, livestock, and...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners

Smallholder farmers in Uganda (photo credit: John Recha/CCAFS). How do men and women livestock keepers understand or perceive resource ownership? What implications have these perceptions on food security in smallholder settings? These questions formed the basis of a study in three value chain...

  • Dorine Odongo
Maarifa blog

Getting knowledge management and communication into CGIAR programs

In many CGIAR programs and activities, communication and knowledge management are invited too little and too late. This means that the results of their science may fall into oblivion . Much can be achieved by bringing communication and knowledge management right into the heart of CGIAR programs –...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Maarifa blog

Climate Change Knowledge Exchange: Great conversations, good learning, but one step missing for transformation and action?

The Institute for Development Studies ( IDS ) hosted a ‘ Climate Change Knowledge Exchange ‘ on 5-6 March 2013. The exchange which was designed with the intention of being ‘ an antidote to death by Powerpoint ‘, was co-created on the Climate Change and Social Learning (CCSL) sandbox – which was set...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Maarifa blog

Online peer-assists: learning about concrete solutions for water and land management research

Since January 2012, the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) is holding more and more structured learning events. Communication specialists from five out of the six basins of the program (Andes, Ganges, Mekong, Nile and Volta) have been gathering every month at a fixed date to engage in ‘...

  • Ewen Le Borgne