Program for Climate-Smart Livestock

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Linking science with policy: The importance of incorporating clear roles for knowledge brokers into research-for development organizations
(Journal Article, 2024-02-13) Cramer, Laura K.
Agriculture and food systems research and international development work will not proceed at the necessary speed without clear attention to the role of knowledge brokers within science-policy-practice interfaces. For research to be taken up and incorporated in policy frameworks, knowledge brokering is essential. Scaling of research for development findings will happen through other impact pathways as well, such as development of business models with the private sector, but development and implementation of robust and coherent policies informed by credible evidence is necessary for institutionalizing the work of agriculture and food systems research. Such policies are needed at multiple levels, and knowledge brokers are needed at these different levels as well. Examples of the importance of knowledge brokers in agricultural research for development from the livestock sector and its interaction with the climate change arena are used to illustrate this call for more attention to knowledge brokering.
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: An intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes
(Journal Article, 2023-01-02) Marty, Edwige; Bullock, Renee; Cashmore, Matthew; Crane, Todd A.; Eriksen, Siri H.
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 exposure. Through a study of a Maasai communal land in southern Kenya, we analyze how pastoralists navigate changing access to key productive resources that are linked to diversification processes, social differentiation, and the reshaping of livelihood practices. By integrating an intersectional approach in access theory, we unpack a deeper level of context specific patterns of inclusion and exclusion embedded within evolving production relations.
Designing fit-for-context climate change adaptation tracking: Towards a framework for analyzing the institutional structures of knowledge production and use
(Journal Article, 2022) Njuguna, Lucy; Biesbroek, Robbert; Crane, Todd A.; Tamás, Peter; Dewulf, Art
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 progress on adaptation tracking, for example, financial, methodological, and technical capacity gaps. Substantial variation exists in the institutional context within which adaptation takes place and is being tracked. Yet, recent discussions overlook the importance of the extent to which new systems of adaptation tracking fit within the prevailing rules and practices of knowledge production and use. Although such a fit-for-context approach has been considered important in other fields, no adequate frameworks exist to operationalize it within adaptation tracking. We develop a six-dimensional framework for analyzing institutional structures as the first step towards alignment in the design and use of adaptation tracking: 1) stakeholder participation, 2) transparency, 3) bureaucratic accountability, 4) engagement with experts, 5) politico-administrative relations, and 6) coordination within the administration. For each dimension, we synthesize academic literature, provide variables for operationalization, and provide examples drawn from various regions. The resulting framework allows the description of the institutional structures of knowledge production and use and supports the context-specific design of new programs, tools, and practices for tracking adaptation progress.
Programme for Climate-Smart Livestock systems
(Presentation, 2022-09-13) Vargas, C.H.
Policies and finance to scale-up Climate-Smart Livestock Systems
(Presentation, 2022-09-13) Sutton, W.; Gerber, P.; Germer, L.; Teillard, F.; Halpern, C.; Henderson, B.; Mcleod, M.; Cando, L.
Mitigation and adaptation in Climate-Smart Livestock Systems
(Presentation, 2022-09-13) Arndt, Claudia; Crane, Todd A.; Habermann, Birgit
Improving assessments of the three pillars of Climate Smart Agriculture: Current achievements and ideas for the future
(Journal Article, 2020-09-22) Wijk, Mark T. van; Merbold, Lutz; Hammond, James; Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
In this study we evaluate Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) assessment tools with regard to their suitability for covering not only biophysical but also socio-economic aspects of CSA, focusing on smallholder household level in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). In this opinion piece we give a concise overview of the most recent developments in measuring key indicators and metrics for the three pillars of CSA (food security, adaptation and mitigation) and give our opinion on how we think this would allow for improvements in the current state of assessing CSA in a smallholder farming context. Our assessment shows that all tools reviewed here have a biophysical lens while looking at productivity, and largely ignore potential social (e.g. food security, gender) and economic (poverty) aspects of the sustainability of intensified production. Mitigation was also analyzed in all approaches but few tools go beyond greenhouse gas emissions to analyse environmental sustainability (for example water quality, soil health, ecosystem services) more generically. Climate change adaptation was the CSA pillar with the weakest representation within the approaches reviewed here. Based on an overview of recent advantages in work focusing on CSA our key recommendations are i) to make better use of recent advances in indicator development for sustainability assessments, including work on quantification of water and land footprints in relation to farm management; ii) to use household level analyses to quantify pathways from productivity towards food security and improved nutrition as well as descripting drivers of adoption of adaptation options; and iii) to use recent advances in system specific quantification of greenhouse gas emissions through both LMIC focused modelling and empirical work.
Investment in Climate Smart Livestock by German government
(Case Study, 2018-12-31) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security; CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
CCAFS funded ILRI research on improving emissions factors for East African livestock systems in part, enabled ILRI to work with BMZ and GIZ to develop a four year, 11 million Euro project to be implemented with the World Bank in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. The project is the first climate change and livestock project to be funded by the German government. BMZ is following our progress closely.
Research protocol: Adaptation practices in livestock systems - Participatory adaptation analysis
(Report, 2021-12-30) Habermann, Birgit; Crane, Todd A.; Worku, Tigist; Gichuki, Leah; Mugumya, Roland
Program for Climate Smart Livestock Systems (PCSL): Futures workshop, Ethiopia, May 2021
(Report, 2021-05-15) Kitololo, L.; Pereira, L.; Vrettos, C.; Cramer, Laura K.; Habermann, Birgit; Worku, T.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is implementing the Program for Climate Smart Livestock (PCSL) in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. PCSL is designed to build the capacity of governments, the private sector, and livestock keepers towards improving livestock productivity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to climate change. In May 2021, ILRI held a hybrid (in-person and virtual) workshop with relevant stakeholders to discuss potential transformative pathways for the livestock sector in Ethiopia.
Program for Climate Smart Livestock Systems (PCSL): Futures workshop, Uganda, March 2021
(Report, 2021-03) Kitololo, L.; Pereira, L.; Cramer, Laura K.; Mugumya, R.; Vrettos, C.; Zaake, Paul; Ericksen, Polly J.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is implementing the Program for Climate Smart Livestock (PCSL) in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. PCSL is designed to build the capacity of governments, the private sector, and livestock keepers towards improving livestock productivity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to climate change. In March 2021, ILRI held a workshop with relevant stakeholders to discuss potential transformative pathways for the livestock sector in Uganda.
Program for Climate Smart Livestock Systems (PCSL): Futures workshop, Kenya, November–December 2021
(Report, 2020-11) Kitololo, L.; Pereira, L.; Vrettos, C.; Cramer, Laura K.; Jacobson, M.; Fredstrom, L.; Njuguna, L.; Ericksen, Polly J.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is implementing the Program for Climate Smart Livestock (PCSL) in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. PCSL is designed to build the capacity of governments, the private sector, and livestock keepers towards improving livestock productivity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to climate change. In late November 2020, ILRI held a virtual workshop with relevant stakeholders to discuss potential transformative pathways for the livestock sector in Kenya. PARTICIPANTS The workshop brought together 35 Kenyan stakeholders representing a variety of organisations, including government ministries, the private sector, NGOs and research institutes. FORMAT The workshop was carried out virtually, via Zoom, over 2 days, 1 week apart. Digital tools were used for gathering individual reflections (Mentimeter) and group discussions (Miro). The workshop activities and outcomes are outlined in the following pages. They draw a lot of inspiration from the Futures Thinking Playbook by Kate Bishop King (2017) and the Three Horizons Framework as applied by Bill Sharpe and colleagues (2016). REPORTING BACK This report shares both the workshop methodology and exercises carried out, as well as the key outcomes.
Research on climate change adaptation in the Program for Climate-Smart Livestock
(Video, 2020-03-05) Crane, Todd A.
The Program for Climate-Smart Livestock (PCSL) looks at innovative practices in livestock systems, in relation to their mitigation and adaptation potential. The social dimensions as well as bio-physical dimensions of these practices will be analysed. Adaptation tracking tools will also be developed.
Introducing the Program for Climate-Smart Livestock
(Video, 2020-03-05) Ericksen, Polly J.
Polly Ericksen introduces the Program for Climate-Smart Livestock (PCSL), which supports key actors in the livestock sector in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to include climate change adaptation and mitigation in their farming practices, sector strategies and investment projects. The project is financed and coordinated by the German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ), commissioned by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Linking on-ground practices with policies in livestock systems in eastern Africa
(Video, 2020-03-05) Thornton, Philip K.
The Program for Climate-Smart Livestock (PCSL) is exploring the future aspirations of smallholder farmers and the threats and opportunities they face as a result of climate change. These insights will inform program interventions as well as livestock-related policy processes.
Disseminating climate-smart livestock interventions in Uganda
(Video, 2020-03-05) Mugumya, Roland
Key activities of the Program for Climate-Smart Livestock (PCSL) project in Uganda include the establishment of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions baselines, integration of adaptation and mitigation practices in livestock development and the development of Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) protocols for reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Program for climate-smart livestock systems. Country stocktake: Uganda
(Report, 2019-12-20) Thornton, Philip K.; Enahoro, Dolapo K.; Njiru, Nelly M.; Wijk, Mark T. van; Ashley, Laurie; Cramer, Laura K.; Ericksen, Polly J.; Graham, Michael
This is one of a series of documents that summarises information relating to the livestock sector in the three Program for Climate-Smart Livestock Systems (PCSL) project countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda). Prevailing livestock systems and their baseline performance in Uganda are summarised first, followed by a summary of what is known about the impacts of climate change on livestock production and livestock systems. Section 4 briefly summarises some recent research on adaptation and mitigation options for livestock systems in Uganda. Section 5 considers some of the work that has been done to date on projections for the livestock sector to the middle of the century. Section 6 considers the national livestock and climate change policy environment. The paper concludes with a consideration of system intervention points and major gaps in knowledge, to help guide project activities in Uganda.
Program for climate-smart livestock systems. Country stocktake: Kenya
(Report, 2019-12-20) Thornton, Philip K.; Enahoro, Dolapo K.; Njiru, Nelly M.; Wijk, Mark T. van; Ashley, Laurie; Cramer, Laura K.; Ericksen, Polly J.; Graham, Michael
This is one of a series of documents that summarises information relating to the livestock sector in the three PCSL countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda). Prevailing livestock systems and their baseline performance in Kenya are summarised first, followed by a summary of what is known about the impacts of climate change on livestock production and livestock systems. Section 4 briefly summarises some recent research on adaptation and mitigation options for livestock systems in Kenya. Section 5 considers some of the work that has been done to date on projections for the livestock sector to the middle of the century. Section 6 considers the national livestock and climate change policy environment. The paper concludes with a consideration of system intervention points and major gaps in knowledge, to help guide project activities in Kenya.
Program for climate-smart livestock systems. Country stocktake: Ethiopia
(Report, 2019-12-20) Thornton, Philip K.; Enahoro, Dolapo K.; Njiru, Nelly M.; Wijk, Mark T. van; Ashley, Laurie; Cramer, Laura K.; Ericksen, Polly J.; Graham, Michael
This is one of a series of documents that summarises information relating to the livestock sector in the three PCSL countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda). Prevailing livestock systems and their baseline performance in Ethiopia is summarised first, followed by a summary of what is known about the impacts of climate change on livestock production and livestock systems. Section 4 briefly summarises some recent research on adaptation and mitigation options for livestock systems in Ethiopia. Section 5 considers some of the work that has been done to date on projections for the livestock sector to the middle of the century. Section 6 considers the national livestock and climate change policy environment. The paper concludes with a consideration of system intervention points and major gaps in knowledge, to help guide project activities in Ethiopia.
Program for climate-smart livestock systems
(Brochure, 2019-12-10) International Livestock Research Institute

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