Saturday, November 27, 2010

SLP Outputs

SLP Outputs

Livestock feed as a component of smallholder systems: Tradeoffs in biomass/crop residues use

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST

Title: Livestock feed as a component of smallholder systems: Tradeoffs in biomass/crop residues use Authors: Gérard, B. Description: Presentation prepared to the FAP Symposium on Feed in Smallholder Systems, Luang Prabang, Laos, 18-19 November 2010.

SLP Newsletter No. 2

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Title: SLP Newsletter No. 2 Authors: ILRI

SLP Newsletter No. 1

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Title: SLP Newsletter No. 1 Authors: ILRI

SLP Newsletter No. 3

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Title: SLP Newsletter No. 3 Authors: ILRI

Testing the impact of social forces on the evolution of Sahelian farming systems: a combined agent-based modeling and anthropological approach

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST

Title: Testing the impact of social forces on the evolution of Sahelian farming systems: a combined agent-based modeling and anthropological approach Authors: Saqalli, M.; Gerard, B.; Bielders, C.; Defourny, P. Abstract: This article presents the results of a methodology based on an extensive sociological fieldwork in three different sites settled along a gradient of aridity in Nigerien Sahel. This fieldwork led to build a set of rules for the behaviour of individuals in non-pastoralist villages. We implemented these rules into an agent-based model simulating three village archetypes. Each archetype includes biophysical, economical, social agricultural and livestock modules. Results from simulations with no social transition processes show that villages specialize themselves into different economic activities according to natural resource specificities: A decreasing intensification gradient is observed from the most favoured site, with more local productions and good ecological indicators, to the less-favoured site, with a growing proportion of the population wealth coming from migration remittances and "off-shore" livestock. Two family transition processes were implemented, following field observations and literature-based hypotheses: family organizations evolve between a patriarchal mode and a non-cooperative mode following tensions due to income redistribution. Family inheritance systems evolve from a "customary" one-heir mode to a "local Muslim" mode in which all males inherits land. This evolution depends on family tensions due to land availability. Once introducing these processes, the population of each site differentiates itself into specialized groups according to size, assets and social status. Meanwhile, the group proportions and specializations strongly vary according to the sites but they are all characterized by the emergence of individualistic family types and the increase of the village populations' robustness.

The impact of fodder trees on milk production and income among smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa and the role of research

Posted: 01 Jan 2009 12:00 AM PST

Title: The impact of fodder trees on milk production and income among smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa and the role of research Authors: Place, F.; Roothaert, R.; Maina, L.; Franzel, S.; Sinja, J.; Wanjiku, J.

Fodder trees and milk production in East Africa

Posted: 01 Jan 2009 12:00 AM PST

Title: Fodder trees and milk production in East Africa Authors: World Agroforestry Centre

Balancing livestock needs and soil conservation: assessment of opportunities in intensifying cereal-legume-livestock systems in West Africa: CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme, Project final report

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Title: Balancing livestock needs and soil conservation: assessment of opportunities in intensifying cereal-legume-livestock systems in West Africa: CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme, Project final report Authors: IITA
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