There are 712 content items of different types and languages related to pastoral lands on the Land Portal.
Identification of agro-pastoralists adaptation strategies to climate variability: A case study in Mopti-Mali
Journal Articles & Books
March, 2011
Mali
Africa
Western Africa
Identifying breeding objectives of smallholders/pastoralists and optimizing community-based breeding programs for adapted sheep breeds in Ethiopia
Journal Articles & Books
November, 2010
Ethiopia
Africa
Eastern Africa
The aim of this thesis was to identify breeding objectives of smallholder and pastoral sheep keepers in Ethiopia (Afar, Bonga, Horro and Menz areas) and to design appropriate community-based breeding plans for genetic improvement of four indigenous sheep breeds. Information on genetics of adaptation in farm animals was reviewed. Two live animals ranking experiments approaches, own-flock and groupanimal ranking, were used to identify sheep breeding objectives. In own-flock ranking, owners paid more attention to production and reproduction performances and behavioral traits (e.g.
IBLI project film: Rural smallholder farmers benefit from insurance
Multimedia
July, 2015
A training film made by Mojo for Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) project, Marsabit, Kenya.