Select Theme: Inputs and infrastructure Livestock health Livestock production Organizations and people Rangeland resources Risk management Livestock Research System

 

Rangeland Resources

Project Activities:

• Grazing Management (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Land Improvement (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Land Tenure (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Range Research and Monitoring (Relevant IFAD Projects)

IFAD Information Resources:

• Combating Range Degradation
• Pastoralist Incentive Structures
• Pastoral and Common Resources in Africa: Some IFAD Experiences and Lessons
• Rangeland Development for the Rural Poor in the Developing Countries: The Experience of IFAD
• The Rangelands of Arid and Semi-Arid Areas: Challenges and Hopes for the 2000s
• Sustainable livelihoods in the Drylands

Key External Links:

• The Society for Range Management
• IIED Drylands Home Page
• FAO Grassland and Pasture Crops
• FAO Sustainable Development Dimensions - Land Tenure
• The Land Tenure Center

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Risk Management

Project Activities:

• Alternative Income Generation (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Drought Early Warning Systems and Contingency Plans (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Markets and Marketing (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Livestock Credit and Savings (Relevant IFAD Projects)

IFAD Information Resources:

• Pastoralist Risk Management

Key External Links:

• The Global Mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification
• FAO Agricultural Marketing
• FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS)
• Global Livestock CRSP
• ODI Pastoral Development Network Conference - Livestock: Coping with Drought

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Livestock Health

Project Activities:

• Livestock Health

IFAD Information Resources:

• The Delivery of Veterinary Services

• Livestock Development and Rangelands Management Cluster Module: Privatization of Veterinary Services in sub-Saharan Africa

Key External Links:

• FAO Animal Health Service
• FAO Electronic Conference on Rational Delivery of Veterinary Services
• Livestock Development Studies Group - LDSG

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Livestock Production

Project Activities:

• Grazing Management (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Livestock Assets and the Rural Poor
• Livestock Feeding

IFAD Information Resources:

• Feed Resources for Landless and Small Farmers in Asia: Research Requirements based on Studies in Bangladesh, India and Viet Nam
• IFAD's Experience in Supporting Smallholder Poultry Production Systems
• The Impact of the Shift from Central Planning to the Market Economy on Livestock Systems in Asia and Eastern European Countries: The Experience of IFAD
• Institutional and Economic Framework conditions for Livestock Development in Developing Countries and their Interrelationships
• Innovation in Women's Small-scale Poultry Activities
• Livestock Development in East and Southern Africa: Some Features of IFAD's Policies and Programmes
• Sheep Production Systems in the Near East and North Africa Region: The Experience of IFAD in Alleviating Technical, Socio-Economic and Policy Constraints
• Solidarity with the Rural Poor: IFAD's Approaches to Poverty Alleviation and Social Security through Livestock Development
• Women and Milk Production
• Women's Role in Livestock Production

Key External Links:

• FAO Feed Resources Group
• International Feed Resources Unit
• Forage Information System
• Decision Support for Efficient Livestock Resource Use
• Oklahoma State University Livestock Virtual Library

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Organizations and People

Project Activities:

• Association Development (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Institutional Strengthening (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Reintegration of Displaced Persons (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Training (Relevant IFAD Projects)

IFAD Information Resources:

• Innovation in Women's Small-scale Poultry Activities
• Pastoralist Organizations
• Yemen: Women's Indigenous Technical Knowledge on Sheep Operations
• Women's Indigenous Knowledge of Livestock Production
• Women's Livestock Groups
• Gender and Household Food Security

Key External Links:

• FAO Gender and Food Security
• FAO Sustainable Development Dimensions - Participation
• FAO Sustainable Development Dimensions - Public Institutions

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Inputs and Infrastructure

Project Activities:

• Restocking (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Roads (Relevant IFAD Projects)
• Rural Finance
• Water (Relevant IFAD Projects)

IFAD Information Resources:

• Credit Options for Building Livestock Assets
• IFAD's Restocking Projects
• IFAD Supporting Pastoralism: Livestock and Infrastructure
• Restocking Destitute Nomads: Post-Disaster Rehabilitation
• Training and Livestock Extension for Women
• Women's Workload in Livestock Development

Key External Links:

• Rural Finance in FAO
• Global Water Partnership
• The Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty

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Livestock Research System

Technical Assistance Grants

• Integrated approach to the assessment of trypanosomiasis control technologies and their impacts on agricultural production, human welfare and natural resources in the tsetse-affected areas of Africa – Phase II
• Regional Animal Disease Surveillance and Control Network for North Africa, the Middle East and the Arab Peninsula (RADISCON)
• Environmentally sustainable strategies for the control of the Tropical Bont Tick from the Caribbean
• Programme for enhancing the impact of immunization against East Coast fever with an improved sub-unit vaccine on the smallholder dairy sector in eastern Africa
• Improving crop–livestock productivity through efficient nutrient management in mixed farming systems of semi-arid West Africa
• Development of integrated crop–livestock production systems in low rainfall areas of Mashreq and Maghreb (M&M) – Phase II
• Integrated Feed and Livestock Production in the Steppes of Central Asia
• Development and testing of an integrated approach to the control of gastrointestinal parasites in small ruminants in south and Southeast Asia
• The Camel Applied Research and Development Network (CARDN) – Phase II
• Programme for enhancing the diffusion of new tsetse control technologies for improved livestock health and productivity in smallholder indigenous communities of sub-Saharan Africa

Technical Advisory Notes: IFAD Agricultural Technologies for Rural Poor

• Alleviating impacts of drought strikes on animal production in arid and semi-arid zones: techniques and measures
• Analysis of delivery systems for tick and tick- borne disease control technologies to smallholder farmers in Kenya
• Assessing farmer preferences for improving provision of livestock health services
• Community Approach to the Development of Integrated Crop/Livestock Production in the Low Rainfall Area
• Ex-post impact assessment of the ITM technology for control of East Coast fever in Kenya
• Feed Blocks: A strategic alternative supplement for small ruminants raised within crop-livestock systems under semi-arid conditions
• A methodology for evaluating the performance of delivery systems for animal health services
• Monitoring of technology transfer, adoption and impact in the low-rainfall areas of the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) Region
• Opuntia spp: A strategic fodder for arid and semi-arid areas
• Opuntia spp: An Efficient tool to combat desertification
• A participatory method to understand farmer perceptions of risk so as to improve the delivery, adoption and impact of East Coast fever control
• Property rights and investment in the low rainfall areas of West Asia and North Africa
• A regional protocol for assessing ITM technology for the control of East Coast fever
• The Mashreq–Maghreb Project: a good mechanism to promote training and exchange of experiences and expertise