Farming in the drylands of West Africa: promising soil fertility restoration technologies
ILRI annual report 2003: innovative partnerships
This annual report addresses the partnerships that have enhanced ILRI's work at national, regional and international levels, highlighting three particularly inspiring ventures - poverty mapping in East Africa, the Crop-Animal Systems Research Network in Southeast Asia, and development of an improved East Coast fever vaccine, which has engaged researchers from three continents. The five research themes into which ILRI restructured its research portfolio are also outlined.
Impacts of land use on vegetation species composition, distribution, structure and diversity: the case of Embu and Mbeere District, Kenya
Linkages between changes in land use, biodiversity and land degradation in the Loitokitok area of Kenya
Loss and fragmentation of habitat for pastoral people and wildlife in East Africa: Concepts and issues
Little of the current focus on landscape fragmentation has focused on rangelands or pastoral lands. This paper investigates the existing evidence for causes and processes of fragmentation in pastoral lands and its effects of landscapes and peoples. More conceptual work is needed on the definition of loss and fragmentation, particularly efforts to clarify fragmentation from whose (or what's) perspective.