Agriculture
- Training manual on agricultural water management
- S.B. Awulachew;P. Lemperiere;T. Tulu / International Livestock Research Institute , 2009
- This training manual on agricultural water management has been prepared with the aim of providing reference and guidance materials on smallholders' agricultural management, primarily for Ethio...
- Asset functions and livelihood strategies: a framework for pro-poor analysis, policy and practice
- A. Dorward;S. Anderson;S. Clark / International Livestock Research Institute , 2001
- What are the different functions of assets in livelihood trajectories? How do the functions and attributes of assets affect livelihood strategies? This paper examines the different functions of ass...
- Recognizing farmers’ knowledge in development initiatives: indigenous bee-keeping in Alaba Special woreda, Southern Ethiopia
- A. Shiferaw;B. Dindamo;K. Berhe;A. Tegegne;D. Hoekstra / International Livestock Research Institute , 2008
- Honey is one of the priority commodities of the Alaba special woreda (district) of Southern Ethiopia. While indigenous knowledge provides the cultural basis for bee-keeping in the woreda, efforts are ...
- Diversity in income-generating activities for sedentarized pastoral women in northern Kenya
- I. Nduma; P. Kristjanson; J. McPeak / International Livestock Research Institute , 2000
- This article explores how women adopt new town-based income generation activties as they settle around market centres. The study focuses on this process among East Africa pastoralists. The study finds...
- The linkages between land usage, land degradation and biodiversity across East Africa
- J. Maitima; R.S. Reid; L.N. Gachimbi; A. Majule; H. Lyarru; D. Pomere; S. Mugatha; S. Mathai; S. Mugisha / International Livestock Research Institute , 2004
- This paper is a regional synthesis highlighting the linkages between land usage, land degradation and biodiversity across East Africa identified from research done over a 30 year period. The effects ...
- Population pressure, migration and urbanisation: impacts on crop–livestock systems development in West Africa
- M. Tiffen / International Livestock Research Institute , 2001
- Population growth and urbanisation are driving a livestock revolution. Mixed farming systems are the present and the foreseeable future of West African livestock systems, with concurrent changes in li...
- Valuing alternative land-use options in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area of Kenya
- P. Kristjanson; M. Radeny; D. Nkedianye; R. Kruska; R Reid; H. Gichohi; F. Atieno; R Sanford / International Livestock Research Institute , 2002
- This study aims to provide information to help inform the search for landuse activities that will lead to protection of wildlife corridors and dispersal areas in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area,...
- Mapping poverty and livestock in the developing world
- P.K. Thornton; R.L. Kruska; N. Henninger; P.M. Kristjanson; R.S. Reid; F. Atieno; A.N. Odero; T. Ndegwa / International Livestock Research Institute , 2002
- Study includes a set of maps and tables that locate significant populations of poor livestock keepers, and broadly assesses how poor livestock keeping populations are likely to change over the next 3...
- Investing in animal health research to alleviate poverty
- D. Perry; T.F. Randolph; J.J. McDermott; K.R. Sones; P.K Thornton / International Livestock Research Institute , 2002
- Presents a basket of research opportunities specific to reducing poverty in Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. It reviews the role of livestock in poverty reduction, and focuses on the constrain...
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