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• Ayantunde, Augustine, Regional Representative - West Africa, ILRI, ICRISAT
• Belgacem, Azaiez Ouled, ICARDA, ICARDA
• Biradar, Chandrashekhar, Head (GU), ICARDA, ICARDA
• Dube, Sikhalazo, Consultant, ILRI, ILRI
• Fava, Francesco, Senior Scientist - Remote Sensing, ILRI, ILRI
• Hassan, Sawsan, Research Associate, Coordinator - Forage Systems, ICARDA, ICARDA
• Ibrahim, Mohamed N, Project Leader, ILRI, ICARDA
• Islam, Muhammad Eftakharul, Senior Market Systems Specialist, WORLDFISH, ICARDA
• Karanja, Nancy, IITA, ICRAF
• Kristjanson, Patti, Leader, CGIAR Challenge programme on Climate Change, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Louhaichi, Mounir, Research Team Leader of Rangeland Ecology and Forages, ICARDA, ICARDA
• Oduor, Collins, Research Associate II, ILRI, ILRI
• Oweis, Theib, Senior Researcher, ICARDA, ICARDA
• Rischkowsky, Barbara Ann, Director - Resilient Agricultural Livelihood Systems Program, ICARDA, ICARDA
• Robinson, Lance, Consultant, ILRI, ILRI
• Sircely, Jason, Scientist - Ecosystem Ecologist, ILRI, ILRI
• Thornton, Philip, Flagship Leader - Priorities and Policies for CSA, ILRI, The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT

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• A Knowledge-Based Approach for Mapping Land Degradation in the Arid Rangelands of North Africa
• A Minimum Set of Soil Indicators for the Semi-Arid Rangeland Productivity Assessment
• A Participatory GIS Approach for Assessing Land Suitability for Rainwater Harvesting in an Arid Rangeland Environment
• A meta-analysis of the effects of communal livestock grazing on vegetation and soils in sub-Saharan Africa.
• A reliable and non-destructive method for estimating forage shrub cover and biomass in arid environments using digital vegetation charting technique
• Adaptation Strategies for Different Sectors in the WANA Region: Summary of Breakout Group Discussions
• Agro-climates and agricultural systems in Ethiopia
• Allometric equations for predicting above-ground biomass of selected woody species to estimate carbon in East African rangelands
• An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems
• Analysis of composition and density of soil seed banks in Afar region Rangelands, Northeast Ethiopia
• Application of grazing land models in ecosystem management: Current status and next frontiers
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Land Restoration Interventions in Dry Lands by Multitemporal Remote Sensing – A Case Study in Ouled DLIM (Marrakech, Morocco)
• Assessing the potential of dual-purpose maize in southern Africa: A multi-level approach
• Bodyweight performance, estimated carcass traits and methane emissions of beef-cattle categories grazing Andropogon gayanus, Melinis minutiflora and Stylosanthes capitata mixed swards and Brachiaria humidicola pasture
• Carbon sequestration potentials of semi-arid rangelands under traditional management practices in Borana, Southern Ethiopia
• Changes in grazing areas and feed resources in a dry area of north-eastern Syria
• Clasificación de los paisajes rurales españoles según su composición espacial
• Climate change and variability impacts on grazing herds: Insights from a system dynamics approach for semi-arid Australian rangelands.
• Climate change impacts on selected global rangeland ecosystem services.
• Climate change mitigation and productivity gains in livestock supply chains: insights from regional case studies
• Collective Action for Common Rangelands Improvement: A Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Uzbekistan
• Comparing Landscape and Infrastructural Heterogeneity within and between Ecosystems
• Comparing yield and growth characteristics of four pastoral plant species under two salinity soil levels
• Complementary use of neotropical savanna and grass-legume pastures for early weaning and effects on growth and metabolic status of weaners and inter-calving intervals of dams
• Conservation through utilization: a case study of the indigenous forage grasses of the Arabian Peninsula
• Decadal National Land Cover Database for Jordan at 30 m resolution
• Desert forages of the Arabian Peninsula - the sustainable use of salt affected soils through conservation and evaluation.
• Determinants of livestock market participation among pastoral communities of Tana River County, Kenya
• Differentiation of rangeland vegetation and assessment of its status: field investigations and MODIS and SPOT VEGETATION data analyses
• Distribution and diversity of wildlife in northern Kenya in relation to livestock and permanent water points
• Diversity of desert rangelands of Tunisia
• Do community members share development priorities? Results of a ranking exercise in East African rangelands
• Dry-season vegetation mass and cover fraction from SWIR1.6 and SWIR2.1 band ratio: Ground-radiometer and MODIS data in the Sahel
• Dryland Research at ICARDA: Achievements and Future Directions
• Dynamics of the soil seed bank over the short-term after bush clearing in a semi-arid shrubland in Springbokvlakte thornveld of South Africa
• Economic valuation of grazing management practices: discrete choice modeling in pastoral systems of Kenya
• Effect of sheep grazing on rangeland plant communities: Case study of landscape depressions within Syrian arid steppes
• Effects of Wolf Presence on Daily Travel Distance of Range Cattle
• Effects of enclosure management on carbon sequestration, soil properties and vegetation attributes in East African rangelands
• Effects of human–livestock–wildlife interactions on habitat in an eastern Kenya rangeland
• Elephants or onions? Paying for nature in Amboseli, Kenya
• Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures.
• Exploring differences of soil quality as related to management in semiarid rangelands in the western Bophirima District, North West province, South Africa
• Exploring improvements to the design of an operational seasonal forage scarcity index from NDVI time series for livestock insurance in East Africa
• Extreme Wildlife Declines and Concurrent Increase in Livestock Numbers in Kenya: What Are the Causes?
• Fragmentation of rangelands: Implications for humans, animals, and landscapes
• From farm scale synergies to village scale trade-offs: Cereal crop residues use in an agro-pastoral system of the Sudanian zone of Burkina Faso
• Germplasm Evaluation of Annual Sown Forage Legumes under Environmental Conditions Marginal for Crop Growth in the Highlands of West Asia
• Grazing induced biodiversity in the highland ecozone of East Africa
• Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector
• Impact of Climate Change on Forage Availability for Livestock
• Impact of exclosures on wood biomass production and fuelwood supply in northern Ethiopia
• Impact of grazing on soil, vegetation and ewe production performances in a semi-arid rangeland
• Impacts of climate change and variability on cattle production in southern Ethiopia: Perceptions and empirical evidence
• In search of optimal stocking regimes in semi-arid grazing lands: one size does not fit all
• Innovations in small ruminants feeding systems in arid Mediterranean areas
• Integrated Management of Soil Fertility and Land Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: Involving Local Communities
• Integrated Modeling and its Potential for Resolving Conflicts between Conservation and People in the Rangelands of East Africa
• Is Proactive Adaptation to Climate Change Necessary in Grazed Rangelands
• Is the soil seed bank a reliable source for passive restoration of bush-cleared semi-arid rangelands of South Africa?
• Litter decay in rangeland sites with varying history of human disturbance: a study with Hazargangi Chiltan mountain
• Livestock Diversification: an Adaptive Strategy to Climate and Rangeland Ecosystem Changes in Southern Ethiopia
• Livestock production and economic implications from augmenting degraded rangeland with Atriplex halimus and Salsola vermiculata in northwest Syria
• Livestock production on Mediterranean grassland in relation to residual phosphate
• Livestock, livelihoods and the environment: understanding the trade-offs
• Long-term livestock exclosure did not affect soil carbon in southern Ethiopian rangelands
• Loss and fragmentation of habitat for pastoral people and wildlife in east Africa: concepts and issues
• Major Agroforestry Systems of the Semiarid Tropics
• Mapping livestock-oriented agricultural production systems for the developing world
• Measurement of above‐ground plant biomass, forage availability and grazing impact by combining satellite image processing and field survey in a dry area of north‐eastern Syria
• Measurement of the aboveground biomass of some rangeland species using a digital non-destructive technique
• Modelling tillering of annual grasses as a function of plant density: Application to Sahelian rangelands productivity and dynamics
• NDVI-Based Monitoring Long-Term Vegetation Change Dynamics in the Drylands of Central Asia
• Native forb response to sulfometuron methyl on medusahead-invaded rangeland in Eastern Oregon
• Nutrient cycling in integrated rangeland/cropland systems of the Sahel
• Opportunities to reduce the vulnerability of dryland farmers in Central and West Asia and North Africa to climate change
• Organic Carbon and Alkalinity Increase in Topsoil After Rangeland Restoration Through Atriplex nummularia Plantation : Impact on Soils of A. nummularia Plantations
• Organic carbon in soils of Central Asia—status quo and potentials for sequestration
• Pastoral Herd Management, Drought Coping Strategies, and Cattle Mobility in Southern Kenya
• Pastoralist Livestock Marketing Behavior in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia: An Analysis of Constraints Limiting Off-Take Rates
• Pasture enclosures increase soil carbon dioxide flux rate in Semiarid Rangeland, Kenya.
• Phenology of short vegetation cycles in a Kenyan rangeland from PlanetScope and Sentinel-2
• Plant Selection and Performance of Two Cattle Types and Camels on Semiarid Rangelands in Kenya
• Policies in support of pastoralism and biodiversity in the heterogeneous drylands of East Africa
• Policies, Interventions and Institutional Change in Pastoral Resource Management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia
• Policy Impacts on Land Degradation: Evidence Revealed by Remote Sensing in Western Ordos, China
• Population, Land, Grain Production and Consumption, Range and Other Feed Sources for Livestock: Past, Present and Projected to 2025 for Central Asia
• Potential of grassland rehabilitation through high density-short duration grazing to sequester atmospheric carbon
• Potential of the indigenous desert grasses of the Arabian Peninsula for forage production in a water-scarce region
• Potential use of oldman saltbush (Atriplex nummularia Lindl.) in sheep and goat feeding
• Preliminary results of bush encroachment in Makapanstad communal rangelands, North West Province (Poster)
• Progress and challenges in ex situ conservation of forage germplasm: grasses, herbaceous legumes and fodder trees
• Rainwater harvesting for restoring degraded dry agro-pastoral ecosystems: a conceptual review of opportunities and constraints in a changing climate
• Rangelands of Central Asia: challenges and opportunities
• Reducing uncertainty in nitrogen budgets for African livestock systems
• Rehabilitation of degraded rangelands in Jordan: The effects of mechanized micro water harvesting on hill-slope scale soil water and vegetation dynamics
• Remote Spectral Imaging Using a Low Cost sUAV System for Monitoring Rangelands
• Resilience of soils and vegetation subjected to different grazing intensities in a semi‐arid rangeland of Kenya
• Revegetation of marginal saline rangelands of southern Tunisia using pastoral halophytes
• Runoff curve numbers for steep hillslopes with natural vegetation in semi-arid tropical highlands, northern Ethiopia
• Selective grazing by cattle on spatially and seasonally heterogeneous rangeland in Sahel
• Sheep and goat production in upland Baluchistan, Pakistan
• Shrub yield and fodder quality variations in a non-tropical dryland environment in West Asia
• Simulating rangeland ecosystems with G-range: Model description and evaluation at global and site scales
• Small ruminant impacts on rangelands of semiarid highlands of Mexico and the reconverting by grazing systems.
• Small ruminant production in Lebanon's Beka'a Valley
• Sound management may sequester methane in grazed rangeland ecosystems
• Spanish rural landscapes: classification based on the spatial composition
• The Future for Wildlife on Kenya's Rangelands: An Economic Perspective
• The Influence of Protection from Grazing on Cholistan Desert Vegetation, Pakistan
• The effect of development interventions on the use of indigenous range management strategies in the Borana Lowlands in Ethiopia
• The impact of subdivision and sedentarization of pastoral lands on wildlife in an African savanna ecosystem
• Traditional goat husbandry practice under pastoral systems in South Omo zone, southern Ethiopia.
• Transhumance in the Tigray Highlands (Ethiopia)
• Trends and spatial variation in water and land footprints of meat and milk production systems in Kenya
• Trends in feed, livestock production, and rangelands during the transition period in three central Asian countries.
• Trends in productivity of crops, fallow and rangelands in Southwest Niger: Impact of land use, management and variable rainfall
• Tsetse control and land-use change in Lambwe valley, south-western Kenya
• Typology analysis of sheep production, feeding systems and farmers strategies for livestock watering in Tunisia
• UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS OF LAND USE CHANGES IN THE RANGELANDS, ZIMBABWE
• Use of edible shrubs in pasture improvement under Mediterranean environment in northern Syria
• Using SPOT imagery to assess the effectiveness of combating desertification in Marrakech, Morocco
• Using remote sensing to assess impacts of land management policies in the Ordos rangelands in China
• Uzbekistan: Rehabilitation of Desert Rangelands Affected by Salinity, to Improve Food Security, Combat Desertification and Maintain the Natural Resource Base
• Valuing Ecosystem Services in Semi‐arid Rangelands through Stochastic Simulation
• VegMeasure: Image Processing Software for Grassland Vegetation Monitoring
• Vegetation classification by satellite image processing in a dry area of north-eastern Syria