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Bone-dry and thirsty: Message from Afar Region (Ethiopia)

By APDA Drought is deep and deepening The Afar Pastoralist Development Association (Qafar Dacarsittoh Dadalih Egla) or in short, APDA, … Continued

Building Blocks for Locally Led Finance: APIL’s Simplified Accounting with Rural Women in Burkina Faso

by Abdoulaye Ouedraogo, ZARE Aïda, Femke Van Woesik This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights and lessons … Continued

Livestock and climate change: resilient cattle sheds

By Ashfaque Ahmed Soomro and Frank van Steenbergen Climate change has a major impact on human, but the impact … Continued

Embracing the potential of silvopasture for balancing livestock and biodiversity in Ethiopia

By Yuka Nabae Livestock production continues to result in large-scale deforestation in many areas. In fact, the conversion of forest … Continued

Homestead poultry keeping for a vibrant rural economy

by Getanew Tesfaw Livestock and poultry are essential to strengthen the rural economies as they are serving as supplemental income … Continued

Innovative Feed Solutions: Prosopis based livestock feed option for the pastoral/agro-pastoral communities

by Beruk Yemane (EthioFeed) and Frank van Steenbergen (MetaMeta) It is a major scourge, a destabilizer of pastoralist lives: the … Continued