Presented by Iain A Wright, Polly Ericksen, Andrew Mude and Klaus Butterbach-Bahl at the Workshop on Unsettled Futures for Subsistence Pastoralism: Adapting Livestock Systems in the Face of Changing Climate and Land Use, 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management, USA, 8-13 February 2014
Opportunities and constraints in pastoral and agro-pastoral livestock systems...ILRI
Presented by Azaiez Ouled Belgacem, Mounir Louhaichi and Isabelle Baltenweck at the Euro Tier Middle East 2019 Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2-4 September 2019
Opportunities and constraints in pastoral and agro-pastoral livestock systems...ILRI
Presented by Azaiez Ouled Belgacem, Mounir Louhaichi and Isabelle Baltenweck at the Euro Tier Middle East 2019 Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2-4 September 2019
Impacts of climate change on livestock sector and Kenya’s preparedness on the...ILRI
Presented by Robin M. Mbae (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
8.wild life and impacts of climate change on wildlifeMr.Allah Dad Khan
A series of Presentation ByMr Allah Dad Khan Special Consultant NRM , Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK Province , Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan allahdad52@gmail.com
van Asten P. 2014. Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Contents:
1. CCAFS – what we do
2. What is CSA in the African context
3. Best bet CSA technologies
4. CSA services and approaches
5. How can we identify the priorities?
6. Collaborative possibilities
A reading material
Includes wildlife biology, Policy and legislation, Habitat Management, Protected area management, and Planning of Wildlife and PAs.
Students of Masters in Science In Forestry at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry Pokhara
Nutrition-sensitive food systems: from concepts to practice: Resources for de...Francois Stepman
15 May 2017. Brussels. Infopoint Lunchtime Conference: presentation by Cristina Amaral, Director, FAO liaison office with the European Union and Belgium
Charlotte Dufour, FAO Nutrition policy and programme officer
Domitille Kauffmann, FAO Nutrition and resilience and capacity development advisor
Impacts of climate change on livestock sector and Kenya’s preparedness on the...ILRI
Presented by Robin M. Mbae (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
8.wild life and impacts of climate change on wildlifeMr.Allah Dad Khan
A series of Presentation ByMr Allah Dad Khan Special Consultant NRM , Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK Province , Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan allahdad52@gmail.com
van Asten P. 2014. Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Contents:
1. CCAFS – what we do
2. What is CSA in the African context
3. Best bet CSA technologies
4. CSA services and approaches
5. How can we identify the priorities?
6. Collaborative possibilities
A reading material
Includes wildlife biology, Policy and legislation, Habitat Management, Protected area management, and Planning of Wildlife and PAs.
Students of Masters in Science In Forestry at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry Pokhara
Nutrition-sensitive food systems: from concepts to practice: Resources for de...Francois Stepman
15 May 2017. Brussels. Infopoint Lunchtime Conference: presentation by Cristina Amaral, Director, FAO liaison office with the European Union and Belgium
Charlotte Dufour, FAO Nutrition policy and programme officer
Domitille Kauffmann, FAO Nutrition and resilience and capacity development advisor
Importance of livestock production from grasslands for national and local foo...ILRI
Presented by Iain A Wright, Polly Ericksen, Andrew Mude, Lance W. Robinson and Jason Sircely at the International Grassland Congress, New Delhi, 20-24 November 2015
Presentation by Dr Sikhalazo Dube from ILRI, at the Regional planning meeting on ‘Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa – Building partnership for successful implementation’,13–15 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
The global livestock sector: Trends and health implicationsILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson, William Wint, Giulia Conchedda, Giuseppina Cinardi, Thomas Van Boeckel, Bernard Bett and Marius Gilbert at the Workshop on Measuring Progress, Biennial Meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), Oxford, 27 September 2014
The Livestock Geo-Wiki: Manure management moduleILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson at the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, 5th Multi-stakeholder Platform Meeting, Cali, Colombia, 7-10 October 2014
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Presentation from the Biannual Meeting of the European Union Livestock Development Group (ELIDEV) 6 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
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Drivers of change in crop-livestock systems and their potential impacts on ...ILRI
Presented by M. Herrero, P.K. Thornton, A. Notenbaert, S. Msangi, S. Wood, R. Kruska, J. Dixon, D. Bossio, J. van de Steeg, H. A. Freeman, X. Li, C. Sere, J. McDermott M. Peters and P. Parthasarathy Rao at the Nairobi Forum, ILRI, Nairobi, 21 September 2010
Presented by Yemi Akinbamijo, Executive Director, FARA, at the ILRI@40 Side event at the All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya, 28 October 2014
Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
Presentation by Guy Ilboudo, Abel Sènabgè Biguezoton, Cheick Abou Kounta Sidibé, Modou Moustapha Lo, Zoë Campbell and Michel Dione at the 6th Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Research and Expertise Networks (PPR-GREN) annual meeting, Bengaluru, India, 28–30 November 2023.
Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
Poster by Guy Ilboudo, Abel Sènabgè Biguezoton, Cheick Abou Kounta Sidibé, Modou Moustapha Lo, Zoë Campbell and Michel Dione presented at the 6th Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Research and Expertise Networks (PPR-GREN) annual meeting, Bengaluru, India, 29 November 2023.
A training, certification and marketing scheme for informal dairy vendors in ...ILRI
Presentation by Silvia Alonso, Jef L. Leroy, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas and Delia Grace at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Milk safety and child nutrition impacts of the MoreMilk training, certificati...ILRI
Poster by Silvia Alonso, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Delia Grace and Jef L. Leroy presented at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Food safety research in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the first technical meeting to launch the Food Safety Working Group under the One Health Partnership framework, Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 September 2023
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Reservoirs of pathogenic Leptospira species in UgandaILRI
Presentation by Lordrick Alinaitwe, Martin Wainaina, Salome Dürr, Clovice Kankya, Velma Kivali, James Bugeza, Martin Richter, Kristina Roesel, Annie Cook and Anne Mayer-Scholl at the University of Bern Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 29 June 2023.
Assessing meat microbiological safety and associated handling practices in bu...ILRI
Presentation by Patricia Koech, Winnie Ogutu, Linnet Ochieng, Delia Grace, George Gitao, Lily Bebora, Max Korir, Florence Mutua and Arshnee Moodley at the 8th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana, 26–29 September 2023.
Ecological factors associated with abundance and distribution of mosquito vec...ILRI
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Poster by Lydiah Kisoo, Dishon M. Muloi, Walter Oguta, Daisy Ronoh, Lynn Kirwa, James Akoko, Eric Fèvre, Arshnee Moodley and Lillian Wambua presented at Tropentag 2023, Berlin, Germany, 20–22 September 2023.
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In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
1. Pastoralism: From vulnerability to resilience
Iain A Wright, Polly Ericksen, Andrew Mude and
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Unsettled Futures for Subsistence Pastoralism: Adapting Livestock Systems in the Face of Changing Climate and
Land Use
67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management, USA, 8-13 February 2014
2. Importance of pastoralism
• Grazing land covers 32M km2 - ¼ of land surface
• Supports over 64M poor people1
• 30M of them in Sub-Saharan Africa
1Robinson et al., 2011
< $2/day
6. Adaptation strategies of agro-pastoral
communities
to climate change
0 .2 .4 .6
normalized rankings of coping mechanisms
Remove children from school
Living with relatives
Reduction in consumption
Sale of assets
Use savings
Help from institutions
Seek temporary casual labour
Food aid
Help from relatives/friends
Sale of cattle or camel
Sale of goats or sheep
Coping strategies of agro-pastoral community in response to drought –
Kajiado district, Kenya; ILRI 2008)
7. Tsetse Distribution and Climate Change
Model predictions for changes in tsetse
distribution to 2030 from current distributions for
morsitans (left), fusca (centre) and palpalis (right)
tsetse groups as a result of changes in length of
growing period
No change: Absent
Presence to Absence
Absence to Presence
No change: Present
McDermott et al. (2001), revised 2005
10. Revenue per hectare from livestock, cotton
and sugar cane – Awash Valley, Ethiopia
Behnke and Kerven, 2013
11. Future options
Poor resource access
Commercialization and export trade Traditional mobile pastoralism
Diversification and added value Exits and alternative livelihoods
Goodmarketaccess
Poormarketaccess
Good resource access
17. Carbon sequestration by rangelands -
Qinghai Province, China
• Carbon financing to promote:
• grassland rehabilitation by controlling land degradation and
preserving water cycle and biodiversity
• emission removal through soil carbon sequestration
• emission reduction (per unit of product) through greater efficiency
and productivity
• food security through improved livestock management practices
• Carbon finance from a voluntary scheme used to
compensate costs and foregone income during a transition
period
• Expected to generate a reduction of approximately
500,000 t of CO2eq, over 10 years.
• Aims to address some of the key barriers to smallholder
access to carbon finance.
19. The costs of uninsured risk in Kenya
• Systemic Drought exposure: 28 Droughts last
100 years, 4 in last 10 years
• Frequency and Intensity increasing
• 2008 -2011: 4 consecutive years drought:
– Total value damages and losses US$ 12.1
billion
– Agriculture US$ 1.51 billion (12.5%)
– Livestock US$ 8.74 billion (72.2%)
– 9% national livestock herd died – mostly
cattle
• Food Insecurity due to drought:
– 2009 = 3.8 million people
– 2011 = 3.75 million people affected,
• 1.8 million in marginal crop areas
• 1.9 million people in marginal pastoral
areas
12.5%
72.2%
0.4%
0.7%
0.5%
0.7%
0.4%
3.3%
9.1%
0.1%
Agriculture
Livestock
Fisheries
Agro Industry
Health
Nutrition
Education
Energy
Water and sanitation
Environment, tourism etc
Total Value Drought Losses US$ 12.2 billion
This magnitude of drought damage and losses to agriculture and
livestock cannot be financed out of GOK’s budget and by the
Donor community only.
20. What is Index Based Insurance?
• Policy holders paid based on external “index” that triggers payments
to all insured clients
• Avoids problems that make traditional insurance unprofitable for
small, remote clients:
• Suited for risks affecting a large number of people simultaneously
and for which a suitable index exists.
– No transactions costs of measuring individual losses
– Preserves effort incentives (no moral hazard) as no single individual can
influence index.
21. • Based on satellite data on forage availability- NDVI , this insurance pays
out when forage scarcity is predicted to cause livestock deaths in an area.
DATA
• Livestock Mortality
• Satellite data on
forage availability
Response
Function
Index
• Predicted Livestock
Mortality
Designing IBLI
S S S S S S
Int Tr T N Wy = (I W )y + X α + X β + X γ +ε
22. IBLI Coverage
• First launched in Marsabit in January 2010
• Have developed contracts for all arid counties of
Kenya
• Contract provision extended to Isiolo and Wajir in
August 2013
• Also have a program in the Borana Zone of S.
Ethiopia – launched in July 2012
23. Implementing IBLI
Implementation of IBLI is a joint effort between ILRI
(with support of its technical and development
partners), commercial underwriters and implementing
partners on the ground (government, NGOs, CBOs etc).
EXTENSION, MARKETING, SALES
24. Preliminary results
• 33% drop in households
employing hunger strategies
• 50% drop in distress sales of
assets
• 33% drop in food aid reliance
26. What can be done?
• Commercialization
• Defend livestock corridors to maintain mobility
• Build infrastructure – roads, markets, quarantine stations, market
services
• Link to fattening enterprises
• Develop identification and traceability systems
• Improve animal health care and veterinary services
• Diversification
• Explore options for payment for environmental services
• Institutional arrangements?
• Ensure legal entitlements to land and other resources
• Provide insurance
27. The presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is given to ILRI.
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