Title:

Community-based rangeland and livestock management

Publication Year:
2014
Abstract:

The Community-Based Rangeland and Livestock Management Project (CBRLM) worked with communal farmers to enhance the productivity and sustainability of the livestock sector in the Northern Communal Areas (NCA) of Namibia through improved rangeland resource and livestock management. The project was implemented by the Gesellschaft für Organisation, Planung und Ausbildung (GOPA), commissioned by Millennium Challenge Account Namibia (MCA-N) and funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The project was a sub-activity of MCA-N's wider agriculture project. The CBRLM project was launched in March 2010 and ended in July 2014. It worked with communities in a total of 58 grazing areas across all regions of the NCAs except Zambezi region. The project targeted the whole chain of livestock production from rangeland management over livestock production management to livestock marketing. Improved rangeland and livestock management would result in an increase in wealth from livestock farming and was to be achieved through a series of interventions, including enhanced community-based land use planning for rangelands, the introduction of technologies and skills to improve grasses and thereby productivity of livestock, animal husbandry best practices and improved entrepreneurial skills.

Type:
Final Report
Item Type:
Report
Language:
en

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