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  The CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme ran from 1995 to 2012. Basic information on its activities is accessible from this website.
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  • Three PhD positions on system trajectories, diversity and cross-scale trade-offs: targeting innovations for the sustainable intensification of cereal-based agro-ecosystems
  • Implementation of Feed the Future livestock project in Ethiopia: USAID and CNFA
  • Trade-offs of crop residue use in Kenya: Conservation Agriculture
  • Conservation agriculture common on large commercial farms but tricky for small-scale farmers
  • Mixed rations based on crop residue: better animal feed and environment in the tropics
  • SLP Crop residue project: discussing with farmers and other stakeholders
  • CGIAR Research Programme on Maize opens call for proposals: grants for research for development
  • ILRI looking for a coordinator for Africa RISING
  • The Montpellier Panel releases their report “Growth with Resilience: Opportunities in African Agriculture”

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• Recent SLP outputs

  • Introductory guidelines to participatory rangeland management in pastoral areas
  • Crop residue allocation to livestock feed, soil improvement and other uses along a productivity gradient in Eastern Africa
  • Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel
  • Assessing the potential of dual-purpose maize in southern Africa: A multi-level approach
  • A model to evaluate the sustainability of mixed crop-livestock systems
  • Crop residue tradeoffs in crop-livestock systems—Improving livelihood and environmental benefits from crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Regional case studies
  • Biomass pressures in mixed farms: Implications for livelihoods and ecosystems services in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
  • Conservation agriculture in mixed crop-livestock systems: Scoping crop residue trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

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