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Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems in Northern Ghana: Report on 2012 activities
Synthesis of soil water and nutrient management research in the Volta Basin
Sustainable breeding programmes for tropical farming systems
Sustainable smallholder goat production and commercialization in India
Sustainable livestock insurance for pastoralists
System prototyping and simulation modelling in mixed farming systems
A project proposal whose aim is to promote more appropriate resource management on smallholder crop-livestock farms in East Africa is described. Prototypes of mixed farming systems will be developed to characterise farming systems according to their management objectives. These prototypes will then be used to map improvements of the farming systems by combining prototyping and simulation modelling. Scenarios will be explored to assess natural resource management interventions that promote sustainability of these prototype-farming systmes.
Sustainable breeding programmes for tropical farming systems
Sustainable smallholder goat production and commercialization in semi-arid regions of Mozambique
Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing adaptive capacities of agropastoralists to climate change in West and southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach
The world’s climate is changing rapidly and Africa will be severely affected by this, not only because of the effects on ecosystems but also because of the low adaptive capacity of communities due to poverty and lack of infrastructure, services, and appropriate policies to support adaptation strategies. A large share of Africa’s poor are dependent on livestock for some part of their livelihoods, most of these living in smallholder, rainfed mixed systems and pastoral systems, where livestock play a key role as assets providing multiple economic, social, and risk management functions.