This year’s EAT 2018 Stockholm Food Forum (11–12 Jun 2018) explores ways to achieve healthy and sustainable diets for a growing global population. On Monday, 11 Jun 2018, Chatham House and ILRI will host a side event around the findings of an evidence review on the influence of livestock-derived foods—meat, milk and eggs—on the nutrition of women and of children during their first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two. Continue reading
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Facilitating innovation platforms – now available as a mobile ‘serious game’
ILRI has created a mobile game for android users using game mechanics such as points and badges aiming to help innovation platform facilitators take on their roles and tasks. Continue reading
Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism
Expert opinion agrees that the best way to tap into the potential of the drylands is to build on the foundation of their livestock economies rather than ignoring them or seeking to replace them. Continue reading
Protecting livestock breeds for people
We need to conserve the most important livestock genetic diversity for possible future use – by poor and rich farmers alike Continue reading
Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change
For people living in absolute poverty and chronic hunger, the solution is not to rid the world of livestock, but to find ways to farm animals more efficiently and more sustainably Continue reading
Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world
Mixed crop-and-livestock farms will, more than the traditional breadbaskets and rice bowls of the past, feed the developing world over the next few decades. Continue reading
Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor
Making smallholder production more competitive is a powerful tool to reduce poverty, raise nutrition levels and improve the livelihoods of rural people in many developing countries Continue reading