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Developing Index Based Livestock Insurance for managing livestock asset risks in Northern Kenya
This study develops an index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product for managing key livestock asset risks of pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid lands of northern Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main cause of persistent poverty.
Development and application of decision support tools to conserve and sustainably use genetic diversity in indigenous livestock and wild relatives baseline survey: PRA tools
Development of a participatory action research approach for four agricultural carbon projects in East Africa
This paper describes an action research process undertaken with four African agricultural carbon projects—CARE’s Sustainable Agriculture in Changing Climate Initiative in Western Kenya; World Vision’s Assisted Natural Regeneration Project in Humbo, Ethiopia; Vi Agroforestry’s Western Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project; and ECOTRUST’s Trees for Global Benefits in Uganda—to explore their institutional changes as project managers and communities work to build local capacity for project management.
Developing a livestock traceability system for domestic and export markets in pastoral areas of eastern Africa
Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or transformations, or whether this is a subjective or academic distinction.
Diversity of innovation processes: Experiences from imGoats Mozambique
Diversity of the neglected and underutilized crop species of importance in Benin
Dialogue on Ethiopian Agricultural Development: Report of a conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12 November 2009
The dialogue on Ethiopian Agricultural Development was organized by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to honour Professor Gebisa Ejeta,
winner of the 2009 World Food Prize. The dialogue was held on 12 November 2009 at the
United Nations Conference Centre. It was opened by H.E. Ato Girma Woldegiorgis, President
of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.