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This $6.7 million four-year project with UC-Davis and Texas A&M University to promote the development of the livestock sector by supporting pastoral land-tenure conflict resolution and introducing new technologies to improve rangeland management, livestock production, and marketing. This project also builds the capacity of government personnel responsible for planning and implementing livestock development and rangeland resource management. Project components are: a) a satellite-based Livestock Early Warning System providing information on forage conditions for herders and rangeland decision makers; b) a livestock nutritional profiling system, which is a risk management tool generating data on forage quality; c) livestock market information network, including price and quantity to give pastoralists access to an improved market; and d) pastoral conflict resolution and rural land tenure policy which will use a participatory approach to resolve resource use and access conflicts. Expected results are the institutionalization of technologies that will improve livestock production and management of Afghanistan’s rangelands, a reduction in the social and economic risks associated with raising livestock, a decrease in conflicts associated with land access, nationwide communication of livestock market reports, and formation of self-sustaining herder alliances.
Fact Sheet PEACE Jun 2011
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently approved a $4.4 million project with the University of California – Davis to assist in the development of Afghanistan’s livestock sector.
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