Improving Governance, Management and Restoration Practices

CGIAR Research Initiative on Livestock and Climate (2025) Improving Governance, Management and Restoration Practices. Results Factsheet 3. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute.

The CGIAR Research Initiative on Livestock and Climate aimed to address livestock system climate adaptation and mitigation through five interrelated work packages. This series of Work Package Results Fact Sheets details our key outcome results. Livestock and Climate Initiative Work Package 3 (WP3) responded to the challenges facing pastoral systems. These systems support 46% of global ruminant production and are increasingly threatened by grazing land loss, fragmentation, degradation and long-term neglect. Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, intensifying existing risks and insecurities in livestock systems, leading to further stresses, tensions and conflicts. Recognizing the urgent need for intervention, WP3 concentrated on developing participatory and sustainable rangeland management approaches to build community capacities to better manage, govern and restore their lands to enhance resilience and productivity. WP3 focused on livestock production systems, particularly pastoralism, including agro- pastoralism and silvopastoralism and the land and resources on which these systems depend. Focus countries were Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Tunisia, with limited interventions in Senegal. Work package staff worked closely with national and local governments, with national NGOs playing a role in implementing innovations and building capacities. The government took up many work package innovations.