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View article: Participatory Mapping with Herders in a Climate Adaptation Research Project
Participatory Mapping with Herders in a Climate Adaptation Research Project Open
Declining grazing lands threaten the livelihoods of Fulɓe herders in Burkina Faso and other parts of Africa. I used GIS to spatially represent ethnographic narratives about land use and land cover changes. In a place where maps were unavai…
View article: A review of approaches to the integration of humanitarian and development aid: the case of drought management in the Horn of Africa
A review of approaches to the integration of humanitarian and development aid: the case of drought management in the Horn of Africa Open
Whether and how to link humanitarian assistance and long-term development aid are questions that have underlain polarized debates in policy, practical, and theoretical spaces over recent years. This is due in large part to the diversity of…
View article: Exploring smallholder farm resilience to climate change: intended and actual adaptation
Exploring smallholder farm resilience to climate change: intended and actual adaptation Open
Low production potential of arid regions heightens vulnerability of farms to market shocks and extreme weather events. Here we examine African smallholder farmer perceptions of climate change, including perceived (intended) and actual adap…
View article: An Intersectional Approach to Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D)
An Intersectional Approach to Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) Open
Originating nearly 40 years ago in black feminist thought, the concept of intersectionality has become established as an analytical lens and social theory to account for and better understand multiple and compounding identities and how the…
View article: How rigid business approaches paved the way for inclusive business practices: A case study of innovative milk trading practices aligned with pastoralists
How rigid business approaches paved the way for inclusive business practices: A case study of innovative milk trading practices aligned with pastoralists Open
The poor integration of pastoral households into milk markets has been attributed to several aspects, including the mobile nature of pastoralists and seasonal fluctuations in milk volumes. Pastoralists also keep their cattle as a store of …
View article: Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa?
Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa? Open
Intensifying smallholder dairy farming can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and increase food production on existing croplands. Much public policy therefore assumes that dairy intensification reduces emissions per unit of production,…
View article: From fix to fitting: Connecting low-emission development with multilevel smallholder dairy practices in Kenya
From fix to fitting: Connecting low-emission development with multilevel smallholder dairy practices in Kenya Open
Smallholder livestock production systems are targeted for climate change mitigation via Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS). LEDS promote the adoption of so-called best agricultural practices for mitigation gains, while also expecti…
View article: Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options Open
East African livestock systems, which support many livelihoods, are suffering from climate change but also contribute a large portion of national greenhouse gas emissions. There are various ways to frame livestock and climate change proble…
View article: Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review Open
Progress towards women’s empowerment (WE) and gender equality is slow and uneven across the Global South. Livestock systems support the livelihoods of one billion poor people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), most of whom are wo…
View article: Tracking climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa: integrating governmental and livestock keeper perspectives
Tracking climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa: integrating governmental and livestock keeper perspectives Open
Adaptation tracking is crucial for understanding progress in responding to climate change impacts across space and time. However, adaptation tracking is constrained by the lack of agreement on how to measure adaptation. While there has bee…
View article: Knowledge brokers within the multiple streams framework: The science-policy interface for livestock and climate change discussions in Kenya
Knowledge brokers within the multiple streams framework: The science-policy interface for livestock and climate change discussions in Kenya Open
Livestock production is affected by climate change but also contributes to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions. This leads to ambiguity in how livestock are framed in climate and development policy processes. We use the Multipl…
View article: Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector
Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector Open
The triangle of dairy intensification, commercialisation and market formalisation is promoted to address the challenges of food and nutrition security (FNS) and climate change. This article questions the need for formalisation to reach int…
View article: ISBARR Huddle: First-Year Medical Students Managing Critical Hypoglycemia as an Interprofessional Team
ISBARR Huddle: First-Year Medical Students Managing Critical Hypoglycemia as an Interprofessional Team Open
The course provided first-semester medical students with standardized practice of a team-based approach using huddle communication to advance patient care.
View article: Intersectionality in gender and agriculture: toward an applied research design
Intersectionality in gender and agriculture: toward an applied research design Open
Applied to agricultural research for development (AR4D), intersectionality can illuminate how gender’s interactions with other axes of social differentiation, such as age, assets base, marital status, race/ethnic community, and caste/class…
View article: Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes. Open
With increasingly fragmented rangelands, restricted mobility and climatic stress, diversification has accelerated among East African pastoralists. Diversification is also promoted as a climate change adaptation strategy to reduce climatic …
View article: The Politics of Governing Resilience: Gendered Dimensions of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Kenya
The Politics of Governing Resilience: Gendered Dimensions of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Kenya Open
This paper uses climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Kenya as an empirical entry point for investigating how climate actions reshape or reinforce gender relations, and how they are aimed at improving local resilience that is nested in such r…
View article: Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development
Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development Open
There is a strong impetus in international agricultural development to close ‘gender gaps’ in agricultural productivity. The goal of empowering women is often framed as the solution to closing these gaps, stimulating the proliferation of n…
View article: The Art of Letting Go: Transforming Participatory Research on Adaptation Practices Among Local Livestock-Keepers in East Africa in Times of Covid-19
The Art of Letting Go: Transforming Participatory Research on Adaptation Practices Among Local Livestock-Keepers in East Africa in Times of Covid-19 Open
Participatory action research (PAR) puts high emphasis on the interaction of the research participants. However, with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the central role of researchers in participatory research processes had…
View article: Designing fit-for-context climate change adaptation tracking: Towards a framework for analyzing the institutional structures of knowledge production and use
Designing fit-for-context climate change adaptation tracking: Towards a framework for analyzing the institutional structures of knowledge production and use Open
The Paris Agreement encourages countries to monitor and regularly report on their progress in responding to the impacts of climate change. So far, discussions on adaptation tracking have focused on the technocratic reasons for limited prog…
View article: Young Women's and Men's Opportunity Spaces in Dairy Intensification in Kenya*
Young Women's and Men's Opportunity Spaces in Dairy Intensification in Kenya* Open
Kenya has a high youth population coupled with high rates of unemployment. Development policies, including the National Youth Policy, emphasize the potential of agriculture as a source of youth employment. Kenya's dairy subsector is relati…
View article: Pathways toward inclusive low-emission dairy development in Tanzania: Producer heterogeneity and implications for intervention design
Pathways toward inclusive low-emission dairy development in Tanzania: Producer heterogeneity and implications for intervention design Open
Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agriculture sector – especially livestock – through low-emission development (LED) has attracted increased global attention. However, producers rarely prioritize emission reduction in their …
View article: Participatory Mapping with Herders in a Climate Adaptation Research Project
Participatory Mapping with Herders in a Climate Adaptation Research Project Open
Declining grazing lands threaten the livelihoods of Fulɓe herders in Burkina Faso and other parts of Africa. I used GIS to spatially represent ethnographic narratives about land use and land cover changes. In a place where maps were unavai…
View article: Social equity implications of intensification and commercialization in East African livestock systems: Implications for low-emission development
Social equity implications of intensification and commercialization in East African livestock systems: Implications for low-emission development Open
Low-emission development (LED) is becoming an increasingly important reference point for guiding and evaluating agricultural interventions. In the dairy sector, LED effectively is pursued through standard intensification practices, which r…
View article: “Breaking Even” under Intensification? Gendered Trade‐Offs for Women Milk Marketers in Kenya*
“Breaking Even” under Intensification? Gendered Trade‐Offs for Women Milk Marketers in Kenya* Open
Despite the commonly vaunted “win‐win” prospect of combining intensified livestock production with greater gender equality, the benefits of formal marketization of livestock products are generally skewed toward men. In response to this glo…
View article: Socio-economic baseline survey of selected households for Climate-Smart Dairy systems (CSD) in East Africa through improved forages and feeding strategies project
Socio-economic baseline survey of selected households for Climate-Smart Dairy systems (CSD) in East Africa through improved forages and feeding strategies project Open
IFAD CSD baseline dataset contains detailed information about household composition, production systems and activities, land and labour allocation, income from on-farm and off-farm activities, household consumption of food, and assets, lan…