The HABITAT project

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
cg.contributor.initiativeLivestock and Climate
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.ilri.org/news/habitat-projecten
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.impactPlatformEnvironmental Health and Biodiversity
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen
dc.contributor.authorTam, Kristenen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-09T22:54:50Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-09T22:54:50Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168805
dc.titleThe HABITAT projecten
dcterms.abstractSmallholder pasture management plays an important role for biodiversity in Kenyan highlands. Smallholder farms account for 80 per cent of all farms in Kenya. However, trying to balance needs of both livestock, pastures, biodiversity and crops may lead to trade-offs between maximizing yields and providing natural habitats for flora and fauna. The current challenge is a lack of data on how smallholder pasture management affects biodiversity, and the potential trade-offs and synergies with climate resilience, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and livestock productivity. This limits researchers and policymakers’ ability to provide management recommendations that are feasible for smallholders and help to protect the environment, or that help Kenya meet its national climate change, productivity, and biodiversity goals. But the situation is changing, as recently the Harnessing Pasture Biodiversity and Productivity (HABITAT) project received funding from the Global Centre for Biodiversity and Climate (GCBC) to study the effects of pasture management on GHG emissions, plant biodiversity and dairy production in smallholder farms in Bomet, Kenya.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTam, Kristen. 2024. The HABITAT Project. ILRI. Brochure. Nairobi, Kenya.en
dcterms.issued2024-12-22
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-SA-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.typeNews Item

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