Livestock-Climate CRSP

Research Communiqué 4/14/2012

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:13:29 +0000

Inside this issue of Research Communiqué:

Nine funding opportunities
A curriculum guide for agro-biodiversity

Call for Pre-Proposals: Early-Career Researchers

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:44:51 +0000

LCC CRSP’s Targeted Investment for Research Impact’s Early-Career Researcher Program identifies researchers who are tackling livestock production problems with innovative approaches and from fresh perspectives. This small-grant program is open to early-career researchers (five or fewer years into their research careers) in Nepal from any discipline, from student to professor, and from any organization that [...]

Call for Pre-Proposals: Female Researchers

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:38:01 +0000

LCC CRSP’s Targeted Investment for Research Impact’s Female Researcher Program identifies female professionals who are tackling livestock production problems with innovative approaches and from fresh perspectives. This small-grant program is open to female professionals in Nepal from any discipline, from student to faculty, and from any organization that is engaged in applied research on livestock [...]

Livestock at the Crossroads Conference

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:13:11 +0000

The ME of the LCC CRSP is attending the Livestock at the Crossroads New Directions for Policies, Research and Development Cooperation in Washington, DC from April 16-18. One of the conference organizers, Joyce Turk, is the USAID program officer (AOR) for the LCC CRSP. The following is her description about the group: The InterAgency Donor [...]

Research Communiqué 3/25/2012

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:37:13 +0000

Inside this issue of Research Communiqué:

Recent Activities of the LCC CRSP: two new research briefs and a LCC CRSP researcher in the news
Nine funding opportunities
A science policy conference in DC in late April
Five announcements of new publications and one new mobile application

In the News: LCC CRSP Researcher Peter Little

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:03:50 +0000

LCC CRSP researcher, Peter Little (Commodity Chains), was recently interviewed for an article that appeared on IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The article, NIGER: Drought does not mean death of pastoralism, discusses coping mechanisms for keeping animals mobile and healthy during a [...]

Pastoralist Access to Livestock Health Services

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:21:39 +0000

Pastoralists and livestock populations in semi-arid grassland regions across the world are extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts on water, pasture, and disease dynamics. Disease, especially, can have devastating effects on livestock survival and marketability, threatening animal health and livelihoods. In order to address this growing problem, researchers working in the Ruaha region of Tanzania [...]

Landscape Rehabilitation & Carbon Sequestration in N. Kenya

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:39:40 +0000

In order to address the growing world population, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in programs designed to increase agricultural production in dryland areas. However, these programs often fail and can leave the land even more degraded because of a failure to consider variation in the ecological, agricultural, and productive potential of different [...]

Research Communiqué 03/07/2012

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:48:58 +0000

Inside this issue of Research Communiqué:

Recent Activities of the LCC CRSP
Thirteen funding opportunities
A micro-insurance conference
Five announcements of new publications

Increasing the Resiliency of Livestock in Nepal

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:16:06 +0000

Recent years in Nepal have seen a deterioration of livestock production systems due to dwindling resources, an increase in disease prevalence and parasites, and the negative impacts of climate change. With this in mind, researchers have begun a detailed study in the Thulokhola watershed (Nuwakot district) of Nepal that looks to increase the resiliency of [...]