Sustainable Pastoralism on the Borana Plateau: An Innovation Systems Approach
This study will test best-bet land and livestock interventions that can move the pastoral system bacy towards sustainability through a participatory framework that creates community action […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Utah State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Improving nutrition and productivity of buffaloes to adapt to the impacts of climate change in Nepal.
Michigan State University, in collaboration with NARC, AFU and the DLS in Nepal, will conduct collaborative research on forage crop cultivation, feeding, and reproduction management in […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Health and Nutrition, Productivity
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Adaptation for Climate Change by Livestock Smallholders in Gandaki River Basin
Nepal is experiencing rapid climate change, whose nature and implications for livestock raising, under evolving rural social and economic systems, are poorly understood. This project aims […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: City College of New York
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Climate Change, Markets
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Climate variability, pastoralism, and commodity chains in Ethiopia and Kenya
The CHAINS project aims to improve policy impacts on pastoral marketing and commodity chains through evaluation of interactions between climate, market access for pastoral livestock producers, […]
- Start Date: 2011/12/01
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: CHAINS
- Lead University: Emory University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Climate Change, Markets
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
A cost-effectiveness framework for landscape rehabilitation and carbon sequestration in North Kenya
The CARBON project is working to improve rangeland management, mitigate climate change, improve pastoralist livelihoods, and provide skills and training to young scientists by developing participatory […]
- Start Date: 2011/11/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: CARBON
- Lead University: Princeton University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Strengthening Tanzanian livestock health and pastoral livelihoods in a changing climate
The HALI-2 project is implementing a program to reduce vulnerability for pastoralists in Tanzania to altered disease dynamics brought about by climate change by improving regional […]
- Start Date: 2011/01/01
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: HALI-2
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Climate Change, Markets
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Pastoral transformations to resilient futures: understanding climate change from the ground up
The PTRF team is working with Maasai pastoralists to co-create strategies for sustaining livestock production based on an understanding of the most important climate and social […]
- Start Date: 2011/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: PTRF
- Lead University: Colorado State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Transhumance, natural resources, and conflict in the Sahel: a pilot project
Pastoral and agricultural systems, and pastoral and agricultural livelihoods, are tightly coupled and interdependent in West Africa. However, conflict is on the rise between pastoralists and […]
- Start Date: 2011/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: TRANS
- Lead University: South Dakota State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Enhancing livestock production systems in Tajikistan to mitigate potential impacts of climate change
The FORT project team is working to overcome current and predicted forage shortages brought on by changes in political structure and climate change-induced drought conditions by […]
- Start Date: 2011/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: FORT
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Capacity Building, Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Increasing adaptive capacity of Mongolian livestock herders under a changing climate through rangeland ecosystem monitoring and community-based conservation
The REMM ream is empowering Mongolian pastoralists to adapt to climate change by creating a system to monitor and manage rangeland health. With pastoralists, they are […]
- Start Date: 2010/11/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: REMM
- Lead University: Colorado State University
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Capacity Building, Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
