Assessing the environmental impacts of livestock and fish production

Posted on 10 February 2017 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

In late 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish produced several synthesis products, including a series of briefs on ex-ante environment impact assessment work carried out between 2012 and 2016. This brief introduces the justification for this work and the different streams of work to develop and test tools to assess the environmental impacts of livestock and fish production in developing countries. Continue reading →

Cattle / CIAT / Dairying / Environment / ILRI / Impact Assessment / Livestock / LIVESTOCK-FISH / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nicaragua / Research / SLS / Systems Analysis / Tanzania / Targeting / Value Chains

Using the CLEANED approach to assess the environmental impacts of livestock production

Posted on 3 February 2017 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

In late 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish produced several synthesis products, including a series of briefs on ex-ante environment impact assessment work carried out between 2012 and 2016. One of the approaches was to develop the CLEANED (Comprehensive Livestock Environmental Assessment for Improved Nutrition, a Secured Environment and Sustainable Development along Livestock and Fish Value Chains) tool to help users explore and assess the multiple environmental impacts of intensifying livestock value chains in developing countries. Continue reading →

Africa / CGIAR / CIAT / Climate Change / Environment / Impact Assessment / Livestock / LIVESTOCK-FISH / SLS / Systems Analysis / Targeting / Value Chains

Prioritizing climate-smart livestock interventions in Africa

Posted on 21 June 2016 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

In this paper, the authors provide a generic framework for evaluating and prioritizing potential interventions comprising the mapping of recommendation domains, assessing adoption potential and estimating impacts. Continue reading →

Cattle / Dairying / East Africa / Environment / ILRI / Livestock / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Research / SLS / Systems Analysis / Tanzania / Targeting

A review of environmental impact assessment frameworks for livestock production systems

Posted on 25 March 2015 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

This study, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, reviews the currently available tools for and approaches to assessing the environmental impacts of livestock production systems. Continue reading →

Africa / Asia / Burkina Faso / ILRI / India / Interview / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Research / SLS / Systems Analysis / Targeting / Value Chains / West Africa

How the Livestock and Fish program selects project sites in its focus countries

Posted on 13 February 2015 by Dorine Odongo • Leave a comment

Catherine Pfeifer explains the three-step process used by the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish to select project sites.
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Africa / Cattle / Dairying / Environment / Event / ILRI / Impact Assessment / LIVESTOCK-FISH / SLS / Southern Africa / Tanzania / Targeting

Researchers and partners critique framework to assess environmental impacts of livestock

Posted on 17 November 2014 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

For the past year, researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute, other research institutes and national partners have been working on a framework to carry out a ‘Comprehensive Livestock Environment Assessment for Improved Nutrition, a Secured Environment and Sustainable Development along Livestock Value Chains.’ On 30 and 31 October, the project team met in Kenya to review progress and the state of the framework. Continue reading →

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