A youth with his weeding tool sets out to tend to his sorghum crop in Katanga Village, near Fakara, in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). Africa’s agricultural sector experiences many of the impacts of climate change even though the continent is a minor contributor of greenhouse gases. African leaders and governments are part of on-going global … Continue reading
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Africa / Agriculture / Asia / Biodiversity / Environment / Film and video / Ghana / Indigenous Breeds / Livelihoods / NRM / Southeast Asia / Trade / Vietnam / West Africa / WLE
Here be dragons–and lions: Agricultural growth and development in Asia and Africa
Dragon head detail on a gate to the walled Citadel of Hué, the former, imperial, capital of Viet Nam from the 17th to 19th centuries and national capital until 1945. Located in the middle of the country along the Perfume River, Hué’s Citadel, like Beijing’s Forbidden City, housed only emperors and their concubines and closest … Continue reading
IWMI celebrates 25 years – Addis event focuses on its work in the Nile Basin and East Africa
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) shares a campus in Ethiopia with ILRI – the International Livestock Research Institute. The two organizations are also close partners in a number of projects across the world – but especially in Ethiopia and the Nile Basin. The event was kicked off by the Ethiopian State Minister for Water … Continue reading
Africa / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / Ethiopia / Farming Systems / Kenya / Livestock Systems / Pastoralism
New initiative to include pastoralists in research
A new initiative that brings together leading pastoralists from Ethiopia and Kenya and researchers to discuss and advance solutions to pastoralist issues, recently met for the second time in Kenya. The ‘University of the Bush’ is designed to link debate with action in the drylands and aims to enable pastoralists to engage with, comment on, … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / CCAFS / Climate Change / Food Security / ILRI
‘Africa will be hardest hit by climate change’–experts
Farmer Celeste Sitoe tends to her maize and chickens on her subsistence farm in Lhate Village, Chokwe, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). ‘Africa will be amongst the hardest hit regions of the world as the climate heats up, threatening the continent’s food security, experts agree. If global temperatures rise 2.0 degrees C, southern Africa will warm … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / Asia / CCAFS / Climate Change / East Africa / South Asia / West Africa
Researchers worldwide unite in multi-million dollar initiative to fight climate change in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Inger Andersen, chair of the Fund Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and vice president of Sustainable Development at the World Bank during her opening speech at Agriculture and Rural Development Day, a side event at the United Nations climate change conference (COP16), being held in Cancún, Mexico (photo credit: Neil … Continue reading
Africa / Drought / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / ILRI / Kenya / Pastoralism
Droughts hitting Kenya more frequently–ILRI’s Andrew Mude
The drylands of Marsabit District, in northern Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Mude). ‘With drought striking Kenya every two years, survival becomes an ever more violent occupation. ‘Qampa Re Liban (61), kicks the red soil, hurling up a cloud of dust with the rubber plimsoll on his right foot. ‘“No rain,” he says, leaning on an Ulle … Continue reading
Africa / Asia / CCAFS / CGIAR / Climate Change / Food Security / Latin America
‘Globe faces daunting task’–Climate change researcher Bruce Campbell
Science News reports this week that the prices of global food prices are rising along with global temperatures and that global warming may have already begun outpacing the ability of farmers to adapt. ‘Since summer, signs of severe food insecurity—droughts, food riots, five- to tenfold increases in produce costs—have erupted around the globe. Several new … Continue reading
Africa / CCAFS / Climate Change / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / ILRI
Climate change scientists warn of 4-degree global temperature rise
Dryland in Marsabit District, northern Kenya; 80 per cent of Kenya’s lands are dry or semi-dry; some of these drylands are predicted to get drier still in this century as a result of climate change (photo credit: ILRI/Mude). Philip Thornton, an agricultural systems analyst with the International Livestock Research Institute, is quoted in the Guardian … Continue reading
Africa / Animal Production / East Africa / Fish / Kenya / Livestock / LIVESTOCKFISH / Poultry
How about integrating fish and chicken in a farm enterprise?
In the lush green hilly countryside of Kirinyaga district, Central Kenya, a silent farming revolution is taking place. While tea is favoured crop mainly due to the cool weather in the areas close to the 5199 m snowcapped Mt Kenya, integrated chicken-fish farming is slowly taking root. Read more … (Kenya Agriculture Stories) Note: The … Continue reading
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