In October 2010 Emory was awarded a $79,900 planning grant from the Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change Collaborative Research Program (ALCC-CRSP) to explore and compare the interactions between climate variability, pastoralism, and livestock marketing in Garissa District, Kenya and Borena Zone, Ethiopia.

The interdisciplinary study was led by Peter Little (Principal Investigator) with other Emory Development Studies faculty, Uriel Kitron and Carla Roncoli, and researchers from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Pwani University College (part of Kenyatta University), Kenya, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya, and Tufts University also participating (for additional information, see the CRSP website and escience.commons news article.

Based on the success of the planning grant, in October 2011 Emory was awarded funding of $700,000 from the Livestock-Climate Change Collaborative Support Program (LCC CRSP) at Colorado State University. The award is for a 3.5 year research program for projects that incorporate innovative, systems-based scientific research with capacity building and institutional strengthening to improve the lives and livelihoods of livestock producers and increase the resilience of livestock systems in East Africa in the face of climate variability and long-term climate change.

Award announcment:
October 24, 2011 announcement "Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Supports Long-Term Research in East Africa".