Integrating local crowdsourced and remotely sensed data to characterize rangeland resource use in extensive pasturelands | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
October 2018
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handle:10568/97610
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To support improved rangeland resource management and monitoring for nomadic pastoralists in northern Kenya, we used a task-based mobile application to incentivize pastoralists provide more than 100,000 surveys containing information on local rangeland, water and livestock resources. In this contribution we explore the potential of combining this information with remote sensing data for improved characterization of rangeland resource use and accessibility through integration of local socio-ecological knowledge into land cover mapping methods.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Fava, Francesco P.
Jensen, Nathaniel D.
Oto, Lucas de
Mude, Andrew G.

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Vision, mission and strategy

ILRI's strategy 2013-2022 was approved in December 2012. It emerged from a wide processof consultation and engagement.

ILRI envisions... a world where all people have access to enough food and livelihood options to fulfil their potential.

ILRI’s mission is... to improve food and nutritional security and to reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock—ensuring better lives through livestock.

ILRI’s three strategic objectives are:

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