Changes in climate that intensify drought and accelerate the spread of livestock parasites and diseases darken the economic future for sub-Saharan pastoralists. Already stressed, as industrial and urban development narrow their access to pastures and water for their animals, many pastoralists face a bleak choice: abandon their livestock and their cultural heritage or die. In Uganda, however, the outlook for pastoralists is becoming much brighter. Thousands of pastoralists in Uganda point the way toward a better option: commercial milk production.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2018Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2018Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) is a donor-funded programme aimed at designing, developing and implementing market-mediated, index-based insurance products to protect livestock keepers, particularly in the drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), from drought-related asset losses. The IBLI index is based on satellite data, which measure the quality of the pastureland every 10–16 days. These data are inputs to a statistical model of livestock mortality developed using historical data from the region.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2003Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
A crops specialist and a livestock specialist from the Matopos research station describe technologies being developed to support smallholder farmers experiencing drought
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
As cities expand to cover farmland with roads and buildings, the conflict between traditional land rights, and modern systems of ownership and distribution become very clear. This report comes from Blantyre in Malawi, where city authorities now charge rent on land that was once freely owned.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2003Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
A senior agricultural extension officer for Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe describes how the extension service is helping farmers to cope with less reliable rainfall.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Mr. Situma Mwichebe talking to Ann Mikia about the reality of water rights in Kenya.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2003Africa, Eastern Africa
Farmers perception of soil fertility. The role of farmers field schools in knowledge transfer.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
For much of the last century the Fengu people living near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, have held title deeds to their land. In this report the chief of the Fengu explains how the title deeds have helped them, and how his people are responding to the current land redistribution programme in Zimbabwe.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2003Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
A senior agricultural officer describes the steps being taken by the extension services in Malawi to enable farmers overcome the challenge of drought
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2005Africa, Eastern Africa
This report was produced following a study visit to Kenya and Uganda, 19–30 April 2004. The visit was sponsored by CTA and organised in collaboration with ORREDE and SACDEP–Kenya.
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