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CurrentThe main goal of this research is to develop a Decision Support Tool for Community-led Land Use Plans.This research is targeting to collect data from predominantly pastoral and agropastoral communities i.e., Information regarding locations and availability of key livestock resources (e.g., pasture and water). The data collected will be used in developing a community-led land use plan that allocates areas for livestock grazing and crop cultivation, identify communities that might require additional support infrastructure. Also, it will assist in the identification of locations and periods when resources are usually low so that support infrastructure (e.g., forage banks and local dams for watering livestock) could be timely provided to mitigate conflicts and improve livestock productivity. The project is sponsored by the Lacuna Fund (https://lacunafund.org/awards/), an initiative of the Meridian Institute that supports private and public organizations to mobilize labeled datasets that solve prevailing problems in low and mid-income context globally.
