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Resources Tagged: Drought

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  1. Supporting Livelihoods and Livestock During Drought in Pastoralist Areas

    2018-03-20 The livelihoods and nutritional impacts of LEGS interventions LEGS Briefing Paper This Briefing Paper summarizes the livelihoods and nutritional impacts of LEGS interventions during drought, and then examines these impacts in relation to recent trends in aid funding to livestock-related support...
    Drought Drought Management Drought Relief Pastoral Systems Pastoralist Pastoralism LEGS Livestock Development

  2. Revisiting the Economic Impacts of Early Drought Response

    2018-03-20 How does early response affect households in pastoralist areas? LEGS Briefing Paper This Briefing Paper takes a different perspective on assessing the value of early response, and focuses on the impacts of livestock projects on poorer households in pastoralist areas. These households often have...
    Emergency Management Livestock Development Drought Management Drought Relief Drought Pastoralist Pastoral Systems

  3. East Africa’s Drought: Q and A

    2011-10-20 World Vision (WV) Australia is involved in both agricultural development and relief work in East Africa. We asked folks there to answer a few questions regarding the current drought and famine. In what ways have you been involved with addressing the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa? Could...
    Agricultural Devel... Drought Agroforestry FMNR Conservation Agric... Agricultural System Famine Sustainable Develo... Sustainable Agricu... Acacia

  4. The Green Famine

    2002-10-01 It is not uncommon for people to rely on crops that are not the most suitable for their region. Here is an example from Ethiopia with some suggestions for alternatives.
    Famine Maize Sorghum Millet Cassava Drought Farming Systems Green Famine

  5. Traditional Plant Varieties and Low Fertility Soil

    2005-01-20 Maradi Integrated Development Project has forced me to question the wisdom of assuming that increases of organic content and fertility are always best.
    Soil Fertilizer Organic Matter Mulch Drought

  6. Maize in Semi-arid Areas

    2006-10-20 The best semi-arid environments only produce maize in 6 years out of 10.
    Maize Semi-arid Drought

  7. Landslide Risk Reduction

    2017-05-23 As rainfed crops are particularly vulnerable to drought as well as heavy rain, farmers must prepare dryland farming solutions for resilient and sustainable crop production.
    Crop Production Drought Dryland Farming Asia