8/4/2019 CRSPDirectorsMeeting 2011 LCCCRSP Poster FINAL 20110718

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LCC CRSP BackgroundThe LCC CRSP supports innovative, systems-based research to improve the lives and livelihoodsof livestock keepers and increase the resilience of livestock systems in the face of long-term climatechange.

Our research is focused on large and smallruminant systems in dryland regions of East Africa,West Africa, and Central Asia that complimentsand augments country and regional priorities. Our research initiatives will:

Expand income opportunities and increase stabilityfor livestock keepers.

Advance management practices to adapt to climatechange.

Build sustainable research capacity. Enhance human health, especially the nutritional

status of women and children. Address gender inclusiveness and promote theparticipation of women.

Align with USAIDs Feed The Future initiativeand the Challenge Program on Climate Change,Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

Research in East AfricaSome of the worlds poorest countries are locatedin East Africa. Here, improving the resilience of vulnerable livestock keepers to better withstanddroughts and other emergencies and to improvefood security in the region is vitally important.Pastoralist communities experience some of thehighest poverty levels on the continent, and raisinglivestock is important for families and nationaleconomies. In this region, climate change impactsare already being felt and the livestock sector, whichdepends heavily on natural resources, is consideredespecially vulnerable.

In East Africa, LCC CRSP work is focused in Kenya,Ethiopia, and Tanzania, all focus countries under USAIDs Feed the Future initiative. Current effortsinclude:

Five Seed Grant Program projects Seven Graduate Fellowship Program projects Eight U.S. university partners Seven host-country university cooperators Five NGOs, government, and private sector organizations

Management Entity: Richard Bowen, Department of Biomedical Sciences; Jessica Davis, Department of Soil & Crop Sciences;Dana Hoag, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics; and Shana Gillette, Department of Clinical SciencesPoster Design: Sarah Lupis, LCC CRSP Communications Specialist

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAM This poster was made possible by the United States Agency for International Development and thegenerous support of the American people throughGrant No. EEM-A-00-10-00001. The opinionsexpressed herein are those of the authors and do notnecessarily re ect the views of the U.S. Agency forInternational Development or the U.S. government.

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Seed Grant Program Projects CARBON: A cost-effectiveness framework for landscape rehabilitation

and carbon sequestration in Kenya CHAINS: Climate variability, pastoralism, and commodity chains in

Ethiopia and Kenya HALI-2: Strengthening Tanzanian livestock health and pastoral

livelihoods in a changing climate PRTF: Pastoral transformations to resilient futures-understanding climate

change from the ground up RPRA: Risk, perception, resilience, and adaptation to climate change in

Niger and Tanzania

1. The HALI-2 project is identifying gaps in the delivery of animal health services in the Ruaha region of Tanzania where animal health impacts human health and well-being through transmission of zoonotic diseases or loss of food and income when livestock fall sick or die. Photo courtesy of the HALI project.

2. The CHAINS project is exploring the interactions between climate variability, pastoralism, and livestock marketing from production to sale in Kenya and Ethiopia where pastoralists are increasingly turning todrought-tollerant camels as a way of adapting to climate change impacts. Photo by Wendy Stone, IRIN.

3. How do perceptions about climate change in uence what strategies a family uses to respond and adapt,and the effectiveness of those strategies at reducing vulnerability, especially for child health? This is thecentral question driving the RPRA project. Photo by Sarah McKune, Univ. of Florida.

4. Healthy rangelands are the foundation of pastoral livelihoods. The CARBON project evaluates how variousmethods, like these simple branch piles, restore degraded rangelands. Photos by Jayne Belnap, USGS.

5. Maasai pastoralists have indiginous knowledge about climate change adaptations which the PTRF project aims to discover through focus groups, interviews, and survey work. Photo by Dana Hoag, LCC CRSP.

6. Mark Nanyingi, a PhD student at the UON studying livestock breeding and reproduction, is one of sevenLCC CRSP Graduate Fellows conducting research in East Africa. Photo courtesy of Mark Nanyingi.

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