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    Les défis de la reconnaissance des communs pastoraux dans un contexte de crise multidimensionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2023
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2021
    Niger

    Les terres de pâturage et de parcours soutiennent l’économie nationale et la vie de 95% de la population du Niger concernée par l’élevage. Sur le terrain, les politiques et investissements semblent donner plus d’attention aux terres de culture qu’aux terres de pâturage. Ainsi, entre 1975 et 2013, le Niger a enregistré une régression des terres de pâturage de 15% associée à une augmentation des terres de culture de 94%.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2022
    Africa, Tanzania, Western Africa

    Key Messages and Recommendations

    • Combating desertification and land degradation while mitigating the effects of drought can secure long-term socio-economic benefits for people living in drylands and reduce their vulnerability to climate change.

    • Land degradation neutrality (LDN) is an approach that counterbalances the expected loss of productive land with the recovery of degraded areas.

    • Land tenure insecurity, especially for women, often prevents farmers from adopting sustainable land management practices

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2015
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Drawing on insights from multiple studies, this policy brief addresses the importance of gender considerations for small-scale livestock farming communities relative to food security in the South African context. The brief examines some key elements of gender issues in relation to small-scale livestock farming, asks how some of these elements align with current policies and practices, and suggests a number of focused policy recommendations. Two thirds of the world’s 600 million poor livestock keepers are rural women.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2021
    Kenya

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2020
    Africa, Cameroon

    Le Cameroun s’est engagé dans un processus de réforme juridique dans les principaux secteurs des ressources naturelles (forêts, mines, terres). Exprimant la position d’un groupe d’organisations et de citoyens intéressés par la gestion de la terre au Cameroun, ce document s’appuie sur les leçons apprises de quarante-cinq années de gestion foncière, depuis la dernière grande réforme de 1974, et sur les développements nouveaux dans ce domaine. Il est inspiré des propositions formulées par la société civile à l’attention de l’administration foncière, et de textes internationaux.

  7. Library Resource
    Improving tenure security for pastoralists in East Africa
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2020
    Ethiopia, Tanzania

    PIM support to work from ILRI and partners contributed to adoption of a woreda (district) participatory land use planning approach in Ethiopia and to expansion of the joint village land use planning approach in Tanzania, resulting in more secure tenure rights for pastoralists in rangeland areas.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2016
    Western Asia, Jordan

    Research on micro-catchment rainwater harvesting techniques by ICARDA and Jordanian
    scientists has led to the establishment of semicircular bunds on contour ridges and furrows
    (using GPS laser-guided Vallerani machine) and runoff strips in two communities of Jordan
    Badia. As an outcome of this research, an effective micro-catchment laser-guided system was
    identified for rainfall harvesting, which has led to improved water availability, increased
    vegetative cover and improved soil health, and provided rural communities substantial sources

  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2012
    Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa

    Few regions present bigger development challenges than the African drylands – home to nearly 300 million people, and the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Food security and rural welfare in these areas are limited by a range of factors, biophysical, socio-economic and policy-related. And many of the biggest challenges – poverty, drought, land degradation, food insecurity – will be exacerbated by climate change.

  10. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2018
    Northern Africa, Tunisia

    Stipagrostis pungens is a perennial grass species which belongs to the Poaceae family. It is usually found with several erect culms, grows up to 1.5 m in height, and forms substantial tufts. It is a tall stiff glabrous grass with pungent leaves, and a C4 grass with sclerophyllous, spine-tipped, inrolled leaves, with sunken stomata. The root system extends laterally for a radius of 20 m or more. The roots are covered throughout their length by a sandy sheath, which is penetrated by the root hairs that occur throughout the entire length of the sheath.

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