Call for application
The Collaborative Project Land Management Sub-Saharan Africa:
Increasing efficiency in rangeland-based livestock value chains through machine learning
and digital technologies (InfoRange) is funded by the German Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF) and led by the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) in
Germany. InfoRange uses a co-learning and co-design approach for improving rangeland use and
governance in pastoral livestock production systems through digital and ICT applications and services
in Kenya and Namibia. Further information: https://www.ditsl.org/de/research/projekte/inforange
The research will be conducted collaboratively by the University of Nairobi (UoN), the Center for
Research and Development in Drylands (CRDD), Kenya, and DITSL, Germany. The following PhD
topics are on offer.
Topic 1: Combining participatory photography and ecological and remote-sensing data in
monitoring and evaluating rangeland resource dynamics in northern Kenya (UoN)
Topic 2: Co-design of herd health platforms to improve communication in the animal health sector
in northern Kenya (UoN)
Topic 3: Influence of digital information on interlinked rangeland governance processes and
decision making at different scales in northern Kenya (CRDD/DITSL)
Topic 4: Co-development and co-assessment of peer-assisted learning approaches to enhance the
use of digital applications for resource monitoring by pastoralist livestock keepers in northern
Kenya (DITSL).
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