The following is ILRI’s statement of support to the United Nations’ Decade of Action on Nutrition, 2016–2025. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Advocacy / Agriculture / Climate Change / Communications / Consumption / Environment / Event Report / GLAD / Livelihoods / Livestock / Nutrition / Policy / Poverty / Pro-Poor Livestock
Towards sustainable food system transformations in the Global South
The world is just eleven harvests away from 2030, but for hundreds of millions of people the goal of ending hunger set forth in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) remains as loftily elusive as ever. What can be done to put the developing world on the right track? Continue reading
Advocacy / Agriculture / GLAD / ILRI / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Policy / Presentation / Pro-Poor Livestock
Enhancing food security through sustainable livestock systems
Iain Wright, deputy director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), gave the keynote presentation at a side event on enhancing food security through innovation in sustainable livestock systems at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) conference held in Rome last week. Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Brucellosis / Diagnostics / Disease Control / East Africa / Event Report / Kenya / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Pastoralism / RVF / Zoonotic Diseases
Workshop inaugurates surveillance project on human and animal diseases in Kenya
Recently, a consortium of Kenyan and international institutions launched a three-year surveillance project on three of those five priority zoonotic diseases with an inaugural workshop held on 3 September 2019, in Nairobi, Kenya. Continue reading
Advocacy / Agriculture / Communications / Farming Systems / GLAD / Livelihoods / Livestock / Opinion Piece / Pro-Poor Livestock
ILRI at the Committee on World Food Security
Today, the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) Iain Wright, deputy director general for research and development–Integrated Sciences, gave a short intervention at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) held at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) headquarters in Rome. Continue reading
Advocacy / Agriculture / Climate Change / Communications / Environment / Livelihoods / Livestock / Opinion Piece
The view from New York
Tad Friend’s largely laudatory profile of Pat Brown’s Impossible Burger enterprise (‘Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change?’ September 30, 2019) raises important points about the environmental footprint of animal farming while passing along some questionable statistics. My concern is with its failure to recognize the essential contributions of sustainable livestock to development. Continue reading
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ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
Lindsay Falvey, chair of the board of trustees of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), yesterday received the Crawford Fund Medal at a special World Food Day event held on 16 Oct 2019. Falvey then delivered a public lecture on the role of the next generation of scientists in finding solutions to global challenges. Continue reading
Agriculture / Crop-Livestock / Event Report / ILRI / ISP / Livestock / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCKCRP / Research / Scaling
Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research
More than ever, ILRI researchers are thinking and acting on scaling. ILRI’s Impact at Scale program is working on a framework to enable ILRI and partners to scale better, quicker and in a more consistent manner across ILRI’s entire program portfolio. Continue reading
Advocacy / Agriculture / Climate Change / Communications / Consumption / Event Report / GLAD / ILRI / Launch / Livelihoods / Livestock / Nutrition / Policy / Poverty / Pro-Poor Livestock
FAO conference on global hunger to launch
More than 820 million people in the world are hungry today and an additional 1.3 billion suffer from moderate food insecurity, meaning they do not have regular access to nutritious food. Alarmingly, for the third straight year those numbers have risen, despite massive global commitments to reduce or end hunger and the harms, such as stunting and perilously low birthweight, associated with it. Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / CapDev / CCAFS / Drought / Drylands / East Africa / Ethiopia / IBLI / ILRI / Insurance / Interview / Livestock / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCKCRP / Pastoralism / SLS
Index-based livestock insurance: Reflecting on success
One of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) major success stories in recent years has been the development of an index-based livestock insurance program (IBLI), which protects livestock keepers in drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands from climate-related losses. Continue reading
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