Resultados de búsqueda - "pastor"

Livestock marketing in Turkana District, Kenya: opportunities and constraints por Watson, D.J., Binsbergen, J. van

“…Topics of discussion include pastoralism in Turkana: then and now; failed livestock interventions; is Turkana District overstocked? …”
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Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa por Davies, J., Robinson, Lance W., Ericksen, Polly J.

“…Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. …”
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Application of mixed methods to identify small ruminant disease priorities in Ethiopia por Alemu, Biruk G., Desta, Hiwot, Kinati, Wole, Mulema, Annet A., Gizaw, Solomon, Wieland, Barbara

“…Highest scores in proportional piling (out of 100 counters) were obtained for respiratory diseases and gastrointestinal parasites in highland areas (mixed crop-livestock systems) with strong agreement among respondent groups using Kendall's coefficient of concordance (W) (W = 0.395, p < 0.01); whereas in lowland areas (pastoral and agro-pastoral systems), the priorities were respiratory and neurological diseases, also with very strong agreement (W = 0.995, P < 0.01). …”
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Linking seasonal forecasts into risk - view to enhance food security contingency planning por Hansen, James, Tippett M, Bell, M., Ines, Amor V.M.

“…In RiskView, for a particular agricultural or pastoral season and administrative region, WFP calculates projected end-of-season WRSI values based upon historical RFE precipitation estimates from previous seasons (beginning with 1996) to reflect potential uncertainty in the projected WRSI estimate. …”
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Fungicidas foliares en soja, eficacia en el control de enfermedades y respuesta al rendimiento en tres localidades, norte de bs as y sur de Sta. fe. Campaña 2018/19 por Couretot, Lucrecia Alejandra, Pastore, M., Curti, A., Angelotti, P., Samoiloff, Anabella, Magnone, Gerardo, Russian, Hernan Dario, Labatte, Matías

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Meeting climate-smart agriculture goals with agroforestry por World Agroforestry Centre

“…Options include a broad range of activities such as intensification of extensive parkland systems; multi-strata tree-cropping in coffee, cocoa and rubber plantations; and silvo-pastoral systems that integrate trees with livestock on rangelands. …”
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Report of the high-level regional conference on land and conflict in the East and Horn of Africa por Intergovernmental Authority on Development

“…Other institutions that were involved in the planning of the high-level conference included: Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) and the International Land Coalition (ILC).…”
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The gendered impacts of index-insurance on food-consumption: Evidence from southern Ethiopia por Timu, Anne G., Gustafson, Christopher R., Mieno, Taro

“…In this paper, we evaluate the gendered impact of an index-based livestock insurance product on food consumption among pastoral households in southern Ethiopia. We exploit intertemporal variation in household risk exposure and insurance payouts to evaluate the ex ante and ex post insurance impacts and use randomly distributed discount coupons to instrument the insurance purchase variables. …”
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Morocco overview por Aderghal, M.

“…Traditional migrations have been movements of mainly internal pastoral populations and commercial exchanges and pilgrimages. …”
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The transformation of the Afar Commons in Ethiopia: State coercion, diversification, and property rights change among pastoralists por Hundie, Bekele, Padmanabhan, Martina

“…(3) What are the outcomes in terms of property rights arrangements and pastoral livelihoods? (4) What factors explain pastoralists' responses to drought-induced changes? …”
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Rapport de l’atelier formation des agropasteurs de Gonaky en production et gestion du fourrage et en bonnes pratiques d’hygiène dans la traite et la gestion du lait por Mbow, Khalifa, Worou, Nadine, Ka, Binetou, Huyer, Sophia, Diallo, Abdoulaye Moussa, Diedhiou, Lamine

“…This report highlights the positive impact of such initiatives on food security, the sustainability of pastoral production systems and the empowerment of rural women. …”
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Scaling, improving and supporting participatory rangeland management por Flintan, Fiona E., Sircely, Jason, Nganga, Irene, Eba, Bedasa, Olesikilal, Birikaa

“…Participatory rangeland management (PRM) builds the capacity of communities in pastoral areas to better plan, manage and govern their lands. …”
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Building resilience through dynamic monitoring of shocks and enhanced access to near-real-time information using citizen science and crowdsourcing techniques: A report of a nationa... por Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Lepariyo, Watson, Gobu, Wako, Godana, Nura, Baraza, Meshack, Ochenje, Ibrahim, Banerjee, Rupsha R.

“…The International Livestock Research Institute, with funding support from the Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) programme, has established and monitored sentinel sites in five counties in Kenya and in the Borena, Afder, and East Hararghe zones in Ethiopia. …”
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Crop-livestock competition in the West African derived savanna: Application of a multi-objective programming model por Okoruwa, V., Jabbar, M.A., Akinwumi, J.A.

“…In West Africa, crop-livestock mixed farming is emerging from the currently predominant nomadic pastoralism. It is hypothesized that competitiveness between crop and livestock enterprises may be an important determinant of the pace of this evolution. …”
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Brucellosis in sub-Saharan Africa: Epidemiology, control and impact por McDermott, John J., Arimi, S.M.

“…In general, the incidence is the highest in pastoral production systems and decreases as herd size and size of landholding decreases. …”
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The way forward for livestock and the environment por Herrero, Mario, Thornton, Philip K., Gerber, Pierre J., Zijpp, A.J. van der, Steeg, Jeannette van de, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Lecomte, P., Tarawali, Shirley A., Grace, Delia

“…Measures such as sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems, payments for ecosystem services, income diversification in pastoral systems, regulation of industrial systems and livestock-product demand management could play a significant role in ensuring sustainable livestock production, livelihoods and environmental protection. …”
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Tsetse control, land use and livestock in the development of the Zambezi valley, Zimbabwe: Some policy considerations por Barrett, J.C.

“…The government of Zimbabwe has ambitious plans for rural development in the valley, including proposals for tsetse control and the expansion of agro-pastoral farming. This paper examines the socio-economic objectives behind plans for development of the Zambezi valley and the arguments for and against tsetse control operations in support of sustainable rural development in Zimbabwe. …”
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Communal grazing and range management: The case of grazing associations in Lesotho por Lawry, S.W.

“…Range and livestock projects have been designed to address such familiar pastoral problems as endemic overgrazing of rangelands, often leading to permanent degradation of vegetation, soils, and water resources, and reduced livestock productivity, adversely affecting the welfare of rural people. …”
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Trade-off between crop and livestock production and evolution of mixed farming in West African moist savanna por Jabbar, M.A., Okoruwa, V., Akinwumi, J.A.

“…In West Africa, crop-livestock mixed farming is emerging from the currently predominant nomadic pastoralism and agropastoralism. It is hypothesized that competitiveness between crop and livestock enterprises may be an important determinant of the pace of this evolution. …”
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Ticks (Acari: Argasidae, Ixodidae) from Middle and pre-Hispanic Late Holocene associated with human activities in northwestern Argentina por Nava, Santiago, Martinez, Jorge Gabriel, Arreguez, Guillermo Anibal, Guglielmone, Alberto

“…Another two ticks identified as a female and a nymph of Argas cf. neghmei were recovered from a layer of the Late Holocene in other rock shelter in the province of Tucumán used by humans of agro-pastoral complex societies previous to the Hispanic invasion. …”
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