Inception Phase: East and Southern Africa

Dryland Systems

Presentation by Polly Ericksen

Triple L meeting

18 November 2013

Distinction between focus on reduced vulnerability and risk and

focus on sustainable intensification : there are transition zones

Focus on sustainable intensification(SRT 3)

Focus on reduced vulnerability and risk (SRT 2)

Vulnerability

Productivity

high

low

high

low

Dryland livelihood system trajectory (different states)

- +higher resilience and productivitylower resilience and productivity

Impacts from IDOs 1. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households

(above an asset threshold)

2. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas

3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources

1. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water resources in pastoral and agropastoral areas

2. Impact through better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods

3. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning system intensification

4. Policy reform removing constraints and incentivising rural households to engage in more sustainable practices that intensify and improve resilience

5. Farmers and pastoralists (especially women) have better access to more diverse, efficient and equitable markets

6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning system intensification and resilience

7. Policy reform to remove constraints and improve incentives to rational management of natural resources

4. Multiple stakeholders in pastoral / agropastoral areas, use evidence based ecosystem management, at community level, in the governance of common and privately managed land and water resources

3. NARES and health sector organisations work together and adopt diagnostic and systematic research approaches to promoting and developing interventions to improve vulnerable women and childrens access to, and control of, more and more diverse food sources, throughout the year

1. NARES use tools, methods and processes to generate and customise improved resilience options for targeted groups of vulnerable households

2. NARES use tools, methods and processes to generate and customise improved intensification options for targeted groups of intesifiable households

Characterization SRT Sites

500 0 500 1000 Kilometers

N

Rainfall (mm)2100

SRT3 - Satellite Site

SRT3 - Action site

SRT2 - Satellite Site

SRT2 - Action Site

Data Source: ILRI, Vrieling et al. 2012

Rainfall Length of Growing Season

Characterization SRT 2 Production system and rainfall (CV)

SRT2 Action Site SRT2 Satellite Site

Climate Rainfall (mm) 200 - 1600 460 - 1550

Temperature

LGP (days)