Going up in smoke: how livestock keeping can reduce wildfires
In recent years there have been devastating wildfires across the world. Wildfire incidence is increasing with climate change, and wildfires are predicted to increase by 50% by the end of the centuryi . Such intense, uncontrolled wildfires are massively damaging to environments and to people, involving multiple deaths – including among firefighters - and widespread destruction of property.
Rewilding and ecosystem restoration: what is natural?
Debates about the role of livestock in wider landscapes have come into sharp focus around the idea of ‘rewilding’, linked to plans for ‘ecosystem restoration’. Rewilding Britain defines rewilding as “the large-scale restoration of ecosystems to the point where nature is allowed to take care of itself. Rewilding seeks to reinstate natural processes and, where appropriate, missing speciesi .” The big question, though, is: what is ‘natural’ and what is defined as ‘missing’, over what timescale?
This study set out to estimate the role of large-scale agricultural investments on household vulnerability to food insecurity in sample communities in Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique based on their adoption of coping strategies. The study used seconda...
Large-Scale Agricultural Investments And Household Vulnerability To Food Insecurity: Evidence From Kenya, Madagascar And Mozambique
Dynamiques Pastorales Et Strategies De Resilience Aux Effets Du Changement Climatique Dans Le Ferlo Au Senegal
Context Pastoralism obeys logics that are sometimes misunderstood by public decision-makers and that are at the origin of many interventions that are often inappropriate. The controversial effects of pastoral public policies are accentuated by several exogenous and endogenous hazards.
Livestock practices, use of digital tools and co-design and flow of information: Brazil baseline assessment in the region of Novo Repartimento (Pará State, Brazil)
Aiming to evaluate the status of key agroecological and digital ecosystem aspects, this report presents a study on major livestock practices, the use of digital tools, and the flow of information that have been carried out among actors working in the region of Novo Repartimento, Anapú and Pacajá (Para-Brazil), whereby ATDT project plans to implement its year 2 activities (2023) in partnership with Solidaridad.
How does climate exacerbate root causes of livestock-related conflicts in Kenya? Climate Security Pathway Analysis
This factsheet gives answers on how climate exacerbates root causes of livestock-related conflict in
Kenya, using an impact pathway analysis. Three main impact pathways are identified:
Regenerative grazing For climate, ecosystem, and human health
The brief is about the case study of two transformative land regeneration approaches developed in Africa: agroforestry and regenerative grazing management. These two approaches come together in silvopastoral systems - livestock grazing and browsing in tree-dotted grasslands - which have been ranked among the most effective carbon drawdown tools at our disposal. This was presented in COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt venue.
Science-fiction or science-fact? Research for sustainable livestock agri-food systems
Successful research-for-development partnerships: ILRI and CGIAR centers in the IGAD region+
A presentation on a positive role that research can play supporting development interventions by Fiona Flintan, in December 2022 at the EU workshop: Regional programme in livestock and pastoralism for climate change adaptation in Eastern/Horn of Africa, Movenpick Hotel, Nairobi
Successful research-for-development partnerships: ILRI and CGIAR centers in the IGAD region
A presentation on the positive role that research can play in supporting development interventions by Fiona Flintan, in December 2022 at the EU workshop: Regional programme in livestock and pastoralism for climate change adaptation in Eastern/Horn of Africa, Movenpick Hotel, Nairobi