Optimizing livelihood and environmental benefits from crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: regional case studies

Published on 8 November 2010

Research Areas

Livestock

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Zimbabwe

Timeline

Start Date: 1 January 2010 | End Date: 1 December 2011

Overview

Four regional documents that document (a) CR uses in mixed crop livestock systems at different intensification levels and with contrasting market access (b) implication and tradeoffs of CR allocations and decisions on livelihood and the environment © potential effects of promising TIP options on livestock and the environment; Tools to understand the complexities and dynamics of CR management in mixed systems and facilitate targeting of future interventions; Trans regional synthesis of the four case studies providing cross cutting lessons and system trajectories and identifying TIP options four future scaling out

Research Partners

• IARC
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
• International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
• University
• Wageningen University (The Netherlands)