Francis Chabari is a senior livestock expert with over 43 years of experience working with pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in livestock research and managing development programs. He is a regionally recognized expert on pastoral livestock issues and livestock products marketing and has spent his career addressing the constraints and challenges facing pastoralist communities in Kenya. He currently holds the position of Chief of Party of the USAID-funded Kenya Drylands Livestock Development program, a livestock value chain program focusing on enhancing household incomes and food security of the pastoralists of north eastern Kenya. Before joining CNFA, he worked for Tufts University as Chief of Party of the Pastoral Areas Coordination, Analysis and Policy Support (PACAPS) program of the Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas, a program funded by USAID-East Africa. He has also worked with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). He started his career as an Agricultural Officer with the Government of Kenya. He holds a Masters in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nairobi and a Bachelors in Range Management from New Mexico State University.
An expert in livestock production with over 20 years work experience, Jurjen Draaijer currently works for CNFA as Livestock Team Leader in USAID funded Partnership for Economic Growth based in Hargeisa, Somaliland. He has been working in the livestock sector focusing on pastoralism and drought preparedness throughout the Horn of Africa for over six years. Before joining CNFA, he was working for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations since 1998. He has extensive experience in a range of developing countries in Latin America, Near-East, Asia, and Africa, and has particular specializations in small scale dairy production, animal nutrition, pastoralism, and pastoral field schools. He is an accredited trainer in LEGS (livestock emergency guidelines and standards). He received his MSc from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
John McPeak is currently an associate professor and vice chair in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He teaches microeconomics and development economics at the graduate level. He spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. He received his master’s and PhD from the graduate program in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducting field work in northern Kenya that served as the basis for his dissertation. After receiving his doctorate in 1999, he took a post-doctoral research associate position with Cornell University assigned to work in Kenya with the USAID / GL-CRSP funded Pastoral Risk Management Project. After three years of field work with this project he joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 2002. He has served as a consultant for DfID, UNDP, and the International Livestock Research Institute. He has continued to conduct research in Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Mali largely focused on livestock production, marketing, and livestock crop interactions, and recently published in collaboration with Peter Little and Cheryl Doss the book Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy: Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities. McPeak is currently a co-PI for the Livestock-CC CRSP’s MLPI-2 project in Mali.
David Layne Coppock, Seyoum Tezera, Solomon Desta, Getachew Gebru
Organization(s):
Utah State University
Institution(s):
Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program
Date Published:
January 1, 2012
The outreach and action-research component of the Pastoral Risk Management (PARIMA) project began with a focus on the Borana Plateau of southern Ethiopia in 2000. The goal was to use participatory methods to learn about development needs and apply the knowledge gained to benefit local communities. Today it is clear that the project has had positive impacts on the lives of thousands of people. The full project report (65pp) can be downloaded by clicking on "Open Link" at right.
Abstract: Poverty, drought, and hunger devastate people on Africa’s rangelands. The authors used an action-oriented approach from 2000-4 to build capacity among thousands of pastoralists to diversify livelihoods, improve living standards, and enhance livestock marketing. The process included collective action, microfinance, and participatory education. Poor women—previously burdened by domestic chores—became leaders and rapidly changed their communities. Drought occurred in 2005-8. The authors assessed intervention effects on household drought-resilience with a quasi-experimental format that incorporated survey-based comparisons of treatment groups with ex post controls. Interventions led to major improvements in trends for quality of life, wealth accumulation, hunger reduction, and risk management.
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Climate-Smart Agriculture Workshop, held last month in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on approaches for effective program design of climate-smart agriculture in support of both country and regional CAADP investment plans. Climate-smart agriculture incorporates practices that increase productivity, efficiency, resilience, adaptive capacity, and mitigation potential of production systems.
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
Date Published:
November 10, 2011
Different Uses, Different Scales. Africa contains countless basins which together supply water for the domestic, livelihood, and irrigation needs of the continent’s inhabitants. The water resources of these basins are further used to generate much of the continent’s electricity, satisfy environmental water needs, and provide ecosystem services. Issues related to balancing these diverse water uses are a function of scale. On a large scale, balancing multiple water uses often involves enabling agricultural production in different parts of a basin and striking a balance among agriculture, hydropower, and environmental water uses. At a more local level, use of water may need to be balanced between agriculture and domestic water use.
Balancing Multiple Uses and Climate Change. Balancing multiple uses in the face of climate change will require using stakeholder processes to arrive at strategies that cope with variability in water availability. These processes would benefit from clear and accessible information on tradeoffs associated with different allocations of water to different uses. Further, risks and opportunities associated with predicted changes in rainfall amounts and distributions should be evaluated.
This factsheet was developed as part of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Climate-Smart Agriculture Workshop. The workshop focused on approaches for effective program design of climate-smart agriculture in support of both country and regional CAADP investment plans. Climate-smart agriculture incorporates practices that increase productivity, efficiency, resilience, adaptive capacity, and mitigation potential of production systems.
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
Date Published:
November 10, 2011
Pastoralism is considered the most economically, culturally, and socially appropriate strategy for maintaining the well-being of communities in dryland landscapes, because it can simultaneously provide secure livelihoods, conserve ecosystem services, promote wildlife conservation and honor cultural values and traditions. At the same time, future agronomic potential and economic viability of these systems will be directly dependent on the sustainable management of the natural resource base that is their foundation. To cope with fluctuating forage and water availability resulting from climatic variability, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists have developed a variety of survival strategies largely based on indigenous social safety nets.
This factsheet was developed as part of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Climate-Smart Agriculture Workshop. The workshop focused on approaches for effective program design of climate-smart agriculture in support of both country and regional CAADP investment plans. Climate-smart agriculture incorporates practices that increase productivity, efficiency, resilience, adaptive capacity, and mitigation potential of production systems.
This summary report is based on the First Draft of the Tanzania Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan dated December 19th 2010. The Draft represents the result of detailed deliberations and consultations by the CAADP Task Force and the TAFSIP Drafting Team over the preceding six months.
The Tanzania Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan (TAFSIP) is an historic initiative that brings all stakeholders in the agricultural sector both in the mainland and in Zanzibar to a common agenda of comprehensively transforming the sector to create wealth, reduce poverty and achieve food and nutrition security.
The TAFSIP is a product of years of consultative processes between the Government, the private sector, Development Partners, farmers, civil society organisations and non‐state actors, the African Union Commission (AUC), NEPAD/NPCA; the East African Community; CAADP Pillar Institutions; ReSAKSS/IFPRI and other regional and international bodies on how to promote agricultural growth and food and nutrition security in Tanzania under the framework of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).
These consultative processes culminated into the signing of the CAADP Compact on the 8th of July 2010 with the aim of promoting increased production and productivity in the agricultural sector towards reduction of poverty and achieving food and nutrition security.
The preparation of the TAFSIP is one of the Post‐compact activities identified in the roadmap. It builds on a series of analytical work done by various institutions as well as on the stock taking exercise that was done by the CAADP Task Force in May 2010.
Jessica Davis, LCC-CRSP Deputy Director, and Sarah Lupis, LCC-CRSP Communications Director, provided a brief background of the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP.
As part of the Rural Agricultural Finance and Food Security (RAFFS) Practitioner Learning Program (PLP), the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme-India (AKRSPI) examined the impact of customized loan products for animal husbandry activities on the food security of rural clients in marginalized communities. In 2003, AKRSPI began working in vulnerable communities to provide clients with financing options to improve their livelihoods. In 2007, AKRSPI began implementing a new rural finance product that included customized support services for improved dairy production in addition to traditional financing.
Through the RAFFS PLP, AKRSPI examined the impact of their rural finance products on the food security of their clients. From February to June 2010, AKRSPI gathered data from clients to analyze changes in:
Household income
Household expenditures on typical food and non-food items
Frequency of purchase of key food items
Frequency of consumption of key food items before and after program intervention
Results from the study indicate that rural clients experienced the greatest positive food security changes after utilizing AKRSPI’s finance product that also provided customized support services, as shown in this screencast.
About RAFFS: In 2010, the number of undernourished people worldwide topped 925 million. Among the many factors responsible for this figure are high domestic food prices, lower household incomes, and increasing unemployment, all of which have significantly reduced access to food for the poor. Research has shown that a healthy agricultural sector can provide an economic buffer during financial crises. In addition, financial services responding to the food security needs of rural households can lead to more successful outreach and have a greater impact on the poor.
The Rural Agriculture Finance and Food Security Practitioner Learning Program (RAFFS) is an action-learning project focused on approaches to and connections between rural and agricultural finance and household well-being, including food security. The envisioned impact is that rural households and enterprises will have increasing finance options that serve their needs and contribute to a vibrant rural economy both on and off the farm.
Francis Chabari is a senior livestock expert with over 43 years of experience working with pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in livestock research and managing development programs. He is a regionally recognized expert on pastoral livestock issues and livestock products marketing and has spent his career addressing the constraints and challenges facing pastoralist communities in Kenya. He currently holds the position of Chief of Party of the USAID-funded Kenya Drylands Livestock Development program, a livestock value chain program focusing on enhancing household incomes and food security of the pastoralists of north eastern Kenya. Before joining CNFA, he worked for Tufts University as Chief of Party of the Pastoral Areas Coordination, Analysis and Policy Support (PACAPS) program of the Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas, a program funded by USAID-East Africa. He has also worked with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). He started his career as an Agricultural Officer with the Government of Kenya. He holds a Masters in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nairobi and a Bachelors in Range Management from New Mexico State University.
An expert in livestock production with over 20 years work experience, Jurjen Draaijer currently works for CNFA as Livestock Team Leader in USAID funded Partnership for Economic Growth based in Hargeisa, Somaliland. He has been working in the livestock sector focusing on pastoralism and drought preparedness throughout the Horn of Africa for over six years. Before joining CNFA, he was working for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations since 1998. He has extensive experience in a range of developing countries in Latin America, Near-East, Asia, and Africa, and has particular specializations in small scale dairy production, animal nutrition, pastoralism, and pastoral field schools. He is an accredited trainer in LEGS (livestock emergency guidelines and standards). He received his MSc from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
John McPeak is currently an associate professor and vice chair in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He teaches microeconomics and development economics at the graduate level. He spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. He received his master’s and PhD from the graduate program in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducting field work in northern Kenya that served as the basis for his dissertation. After receiving his doctorate in 1999, he took a post-doctoral research associate position with Cornell University assigned to work in Kenya with the USAID / GL-CRSP funded Pastoral Risk Management Project. After three years of field work with this project he joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 2002. He has served as a consultant for DfID, UNDP, and the International Livestock Research Institute. He has continued to conduct research in Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Mali largely focused on livestock production, marketing, and livestock crop interactions, and recently published in collaboration with Peter Little and Cheryl Doss the book Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy: Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities. McPeak is currently a co-PI for the Livestock-CC CRSP’s MLPI-2 project in Mali.
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