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Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) products represent a promising and exciting innovation that could allow the benefits of insurance to protect the climate-related risks that vulnerable rural smallholder farmers and livestock keepers face. An interactive "game" workshop to explain index based...


Harvey, BlaneEnsor, JonathanCarlile, LizGarside, BenPatterson, ZacharyNaess, Lars Otto[Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)]Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)

Wijk, Mark T. vanHammond, JamesFrelat, RomainFraval, SimonTeufel, NilsTavenner, KatieHenderson, Benjamin B.[Smallholder farmers, food security, and livelihoods: Exploring trade offs and synergies using farm household characterization data]Smallholder farmers, food security, and livelihoods: Exploring trade offs and synergies using farm household characterization data
Gonsalves, Julian[Participatory research on water and soil conservation, rangeland and livestock management]Participatory research on water and soil conservation, rangeland and livestock management

Under agreement with CIAT and led by the Universidad del Cauca, new forage technologies are being introduced and evaluated using a participatory approach working with small- and medium-sized livestock producers from northern Cauca, Colombia. The project aims to identify, assess and co-develop ger...


Gonsalves, Julian[Increased productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of systems of small and medium livestock producers in the Patía Basin and Popayán Plateau]Increased productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of systems of small and medium livestock producers in the Patía Basin and Popayán Plateau

This project aims to develop, together with farmers, technologies that will increase the income and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers living in the uplands of Lao PDR and Cambodia. This will be achieved by disseminating the selected technologies for improved cassava livestock product...


Gonsalves, Julian[Improving livelihoods of smallholder upland farmers through improved and integrated cassava-based cropping and livestock systems]Improving livelihoods of smallholder upland farmers through improved and integrated cassava-based cropping and livestock systems

This project will focus on improving smallholders’ production skills, increasing demand awareness, and establishing effective and efficient linkages among value-chain stakeholders to gain wider market access.


Gonsalves, Julian[Improved forage-based feeding systems for smallholder livelihoods in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam development triangle]Improved forage-based feeding systems for smallholder livelihoods in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam development triangle

The project aims to improve smallholder livelihoods in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda by increasing the availability of dry-season forage for their livestock. Work is jointly carried out with farmers already members of different research and development networks.


Gonsalves, Julian[Dry-season forages to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in Eastern Africa]Dry-season forages to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in Eastern Africa

The project seeks to engage with a wide range of stakeholders to strengthen the capacity of poor livestock keepers to select and adopt fodder options as well as access market opportunities to enable them to improve their livelihoods. Among its targets, it seeks to establish mechanisms for strengt...


Gonsalves, Julian[Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increased use of fodder]Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increased use of fodder

The overall goal of the project is to identify, test and prove ways to increase agricultural production, improve household food security, and alleviate poverty, thereby reducing food-aid dependency in rural Zimbabwe through better-integrated crop and livestock production and market participation....


Gonsalves, Julian[Integrating crops and livestock for improved food security and livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe]Integrating crops and livestock for improved food security and livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe

The purpose of the project is to enhance adaptation to climate variability through effective knowledge sharing processes in vulnerable ecosystems of the arid and semi arid lands (ASALs) of Kenya. This involves development and adaptation of methods that render mutual learning between livestock kee...


Gonsalves, Julian[Mutual learning of livestock keepers and scientists for adaptation to climate change in pastoral areas]Mutual learning of livestock keepers and scientists for adaptation to climate change in pastoral areas

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