GL-CRSP Projects
Use the table below to navigate the list of current and active GL-CRSP projects.
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Compilation of research that quantifies and documents the role of rangelands on greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration |
PI: Dr. Emilio Laca, University of California, Davis
Resulting from research conducted by the completed GL-CRSP Projects LDRCT and Co-Benefits of Grassland Regeneration of Abandoned Wheat Areas for Carbon Sequestration, the 3G project will produce a scientific volume the helps managers and development agents to incorporate rangeland and pasture conservation and management projects as candidates for generation of credits.
Read the 3G 2007 Annual Report
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Avian Flu School Assessment |
PI: Carol Cardona, DMV PhD, University of California, Davis
Response to the current highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) global animal health emergency requires the training of veterinarians, public health workers, laboratory scientists, livestock producers, wildlife and zoo managers, and government officials in emergency management, virus surveillance, sample collection and reporting, biosecurity, and disease containment. Currently, the numbers of trained responders is grossly inadequate to respond effectively to HPAI outbreaks in most parts of the world, particularly in developing countries.
The Avian Flu School (AFS) is a multi-tiered, train-the-trainer program designed to educate animal health, public health, and agricultural extension workers about H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), enabling them to deliver this information at the community level in developing countries.
Based on the work of the initial AFS Assessment Team, an international Avian Flu School curriculum is now ready for use in different countries and environments.
Click here for course materials and guidance documents for the Avian Flu School
GL-CRSP Podcast Vol. 1: Interview with AFS Project Manager David Bunn
Presentation: A Socioeconomic Impact Assessment of a Chicken Vaccination Project on Households in Rural Iringa, Tanzania by Danielle Knueppel, M.Sc., International Agricultural Development, UC Davis
Read the AFS 2007 Annual Report
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Increasing Animal Source Foods in the Diets of HIV-infected Kenyan Women and Their Children |
PI: Judith A. Ernst, DMSc, RD, Indiana University
The HIV Nutrition Project is researching the use of food as means of enhancing and preserving the immune status, lean body mass and quality of daily living of drug naive HIV-infected women, and to support the growth, health and cognitive development of their vulnerable children in the Turbo Division of Uasin Gishu District in Kenya.
Read the HNP 2007 Annual Report
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Livestock Information Network & Knowledge System for Enhanced Pastoral Livelihoods in East Africa |
PI: Paul Dyke, Texas A&M University
The LINKS project developed from the GL-CRSP Livestock Early Warning System (LEWS) project, which was established in 1997. The LEWS project developed and applied a suite of technologies to provide a regional decision-support framework for livestock early warning. The LINKS project is placing LEWS technology inside a broader livestock information and analysis system that is designed to improve livestock markets and trade, thereby enhancing the well-being of pastoralists in eastern Africa.
Livestock Information Network & Knowledge System
Read the LINKS 2007 Annual Report
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Mali Livestock Early Warning and Information Network and Knowledge System for Enhanced Pastoral Livelihoods |
PI: Jay Angerer, Texas A&M University and Syracuse University
Building on the successes of the GL-CRSP LEWS/LINKS, PARIMA, and GOBI Forage Projects, the MALI Project will develop a livestock market information system, and an examination of strategies for reducing risk and improving livestock marketing options for the enhancement of pastoral livelihoods in Mali.
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Water and Sanitation-Related Conditions and Disease Burdens in the River Njoro |
PI: Marion Jenkins, University of California, Davis
Water and sanitation-related diseases in the River Njoro watershed, particularly diarrhea, pose a development burden on poor rural agricultural households with implications for water supply planning, environmental management, and development policy. Yet little is known quantitatively regarding interactions among water supply availability, watershed and resource management practices, and household behaviors in contributing to disease burdens in order to develop effective policies and interventions for improved water supply conditions and public health at the watershed scale. The SUMAWA project has collected data on biophysical conditions, water pollution and water quality, environmental human health, socio economics, and household water supply and sanitation-related access and practices in the River Njoro watershed. This research will develop an integrated data set to characterize temporal and spatial variations in domestic water supply, sanitation and water consumption patterns across the watershed, and analyze relationships with patterns of water and sanitation-related diseases in the Njoro Watershed. Implications of interactions between water supply development and access, water pollution conditions and sources, and household water use behavior for reducing water and sanitation-related disease burdens in the Njoro watershed will be explored in the context of sustainable and integrated water resources management, to identify alternative water supply development and management strategies at multiple scales.
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Improving Pastoral Risk Management on East African Rangelands |
PI: Layne Coppock, Utah State University
The PARIMA project was established in 1997 and conducts research, training, and outreach in an effort to improve welfare of pastoral and agro-pastoral peoples with a focus on northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. Foundation concepts include the exploration of opportunities to better diversify incomes and assets and how to improve access to natural resources, information, and various public services.
Read the PARIMA 2007 Annual Report
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Pastoral Engagement, Adaptation, and Capacity Enhancement |
PI: Bruce Grogan, University of California, Davis
The PEACE project is focused on the development of the extensive livestock sector by supporting policy planning, pastoral land tenure conflict resolution, and introduction of GL-CRSP LEWS and LINKS technologies to improve rangeland management and livestock production and marketing. The project will also help build capacity of the Afghan government personnel responsible for planning and implementing livestock development and rangeland resource management.
Afghan PEACE Project
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Beef as a Source of Vitamin B-12, Iron and Zinc to Improve Development of Infants Fed Low Amounts of Animal Products |
PI: Lindsay H. Allen, University of California, Davis
The BEEF Project was developed to address identified vitamim B-12 deficiencies in infants aged 7 to 12 months in a low-income area of Guatamala City. Conclusions of the BEEF project indicated that food-based interventions to improve maternal and infant B-12 supplementation must be done during pregnancy and/or lactation to prevent adverse effects of deficiency in infants.
Read the BEEF 2006 Annual Report
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Role of Animal Source Foods to Improve Diet Quality and Growth and Cognitive Development in East African Children |
PI: Charlotte Neumann, University of California, Los Angeles
The overall goal of the controlled child feeding intervention study was to improve the health, growth, and cognitive function of children through improving diet quality through the addition of animal source foods. The main research objective was to complete a controlled feeding intervention study of primary school children to determine if consumption of animal source foods (milk or meat) resulted in improved health, growth, and cognitive function compared to those children on the usual maize and bean-based diet. Results from the CNP project inspired the conference on June 24-26 in Washington DC, the proceedings of which appeared as a supplement to the Journal of Nutrition, Volume 133 No. 11S-II “Animal Source Foods to Improve Micronutrient Nutrition and Human Function in Developing Countries” in 2003.
Read the CNP 2001 Annual Report
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Integrated Modeling and Assessment for Balancing Food Security, Conservation, and Ecosystem Integrity in East Africa |
PI: M.B. Coughenour, Colorado State University
The IMAS Project, evolving later into the GL-CRSP POLECY Project, developed an integrated modeling and assessment system integrating computer-modeling geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and field studies to provide information and understanding necessary to conserve biodiversity, wildlife, and ecosystem integrity, while increasing pastoral food security. The system was applied to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania and Greater Amboseli Ecosystem in the Kajiado District in Kenya, and transmitted to use by policy makers throughout a number of NGOs and GOs in both countries, including Kenya Wildlife Service, the Tanzania National Parks, Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture, World Bank, and the African Wildlife Foundation.
Read the IMAS 2003 Annual Report
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Livestock Development and Rangeland Conservation Tools for Central Asia |
PI: Emilio Laca, University of California, Davis
Research from LDRCT focused on: continuous collection and analyses of CO2 flux data from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; determination of the effects of land use on carbon flux in northern Kazakhstan; continuation of intensive monitoring and modeling of agricultural enterprises; establishment of a forage laboratory in Samarkand and study of rangeland forages and livestock diets; and completion of bio-economic simulation model of range-based sheep producers for Kazakhstan. Project results and conclusions will be published in book form through the GL-CRSP 3G Project in Summer 2008.
Read the LDRCT 2003 Annual Report
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Early Warning System for Monitoring Nutrition and Livestock Health for Food Security of Humans in East Africa |
PI: Jerry Stuth, Texas A&M University
The LEWS Project developed a functioning livestock early warning system delivered information/analysis delivered to key regional, national and local institutions/stakeholders, providing the basis for the current GL-CRSP LINKS and GOBI Projects. The system has been integrated into the National Livestock Marketing and Information System in Kenya.
Read the LEWS 2003 Annual Report
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Impacts of Economic Reform on the Livestock Sector in Central Asia |
PI: Kenneth Shapiro, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The LSER project focused on the privatization of agriculture in Central Asia and the indentification of key factors in marketing channels from the farmgate to the consumer. The project provided the foundation for the GL-CRSP WOOL Project.
Read the LSER 2000 Annual Report
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Community Planning for Sustainable Livestock-based Forested Ecosystems in Latin America |
PI: Timothy Moermond, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Project PLAN worked with communities in forested mountainous areas of Latin America to improve the quality of life for small land-holders through land use and livestock management that is sustainable at the family and community level and sustainable for the environment at the level of the watershed.
Read the PLAN 2003 Annual Report
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Integrated Assessment of Pastoral-Wildlife Interactions in East Africa: Implications for People, Policy, Conservation and Development in East Africa |
PI: David Swift, Colorado State University
Evolving out of the IMAS Project, the GL-CRSP POLEYC Project focused on the development of Integrated Assessments of pastoral-wildlife interactions in East Africa and the corresponding implications for people, policy, conservation and development.
Read the POLEYC 2003 Annual Report
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Developing Institutions and Capacity for Sheep and Fiber Marketing in Central Asia |
PI: Robert Stobart, University of Wyoming
The culmination of three small grants developed by the GL-CRSP Management Entity, the WOOL Project brought a diverse array of talented scientists from the U.K. and the U.S. to conduct research on market behavior and to build the capacity of smallholders to address the problems limiting their market participation. The WOOL project focused on building the capacity of institutions to evaluate product quality and facilitate transactions between producers and national and international buyers, based on quality standards and measurements.
Read the WOOL 2006 Annual Report
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Managing National Parks in the Context of Changing Human Populations and Economics: Strengthening Collaboration between Researchers and Managers Working in and around Serengeti and Yellowstone Parks |
PI: Lisa J. Graumlich, Big Sky Institute, Montana State University
The YESEMA project focused on national park management within the context of changing human populations and economics, as well as strengthening collaboration between researchers and managers working in and around Senegeti and Yellowstone National Parks.
Read the YESEMA 2005 Annual Report
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