Semillas de Esperanza: Vegetable Seeds for Sustainable Agriculture
Acute poverty and meager economic opportunities exist in many rural regions of Central America. Vegetable and seed production are technology driven economic activities that can significantly […]
- Start Date: 2011/04/01
- End Date: 2014/04/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Gender, Productivity
CRSP: Horticulture
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
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
Sustainable Technology for Orange and Purple Sweetpotato (STOPS) in Ghana
Using the gap and decision analysis tools, this project proposes to strengthen the value chain in three sweet potato growing regions in Ghana to improve food […]
- Start Date: 2011
- End Date: October 2014
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Tuskegee University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation
CRSP: Horticulture
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
Risk, perception, resilience, and adaptation to climate change in Niger and Tanzania
Building on household interviews conducted during the 2004/2005 food crisis, the RPRA project is developing indicators of pastoral community vulnerability and resilience to climate change, and […]
- Start Date: 2010/11/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: RPRA
- Lead University: University of Florida
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Management of river systems for the future/La gestion des systemes fluviaux pour l’avenir
In response to increased conflict between mobile livestock producers and rice farmers, GSFA/ RIVERS is predicting the impact of climate change on vegetation in the Niger […]
- Start Date: 2010/11/01
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: RIVERS/GSFA
- Lead University: Syracuse University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Mali Poultry Project
Encouraging sustainable poultry production in Mali will require a combined infrastructural and educational effort. A fundamental need exists for improved genetics, reproduction, nutrition, husbandry, disease prevention, […]
- Start Date: 2010/11/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: MPP
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Capacity Building, Productivity
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
