Shirley Tarawali, ILRI’s assistant director general, spoke about how to advocate more effectively for livestock Continue reading
Category Archives: Agriculture
Press release: Urgent action needed to close the ‘livestock data gap’ to address poverty and food insecurity
Originally posted on ILRI Asia:
Missing or poor livestock data limits development opportunities, according to a community of experts who are joining forces to confront the challenge. 28 November 2018 – HANOI: Better data is urgently needed for improving livestock health and productivity in Vietnam and the rest of the world, according to experts who…
This week: A global event on Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
A senior delegation from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is supporting and engaging in this week’s (2830 Nov 2018) global conference on ‘Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition’, in Bangkok. Continue reading
Thirty per cent of ILRI gene bank collections now safely duplicated at the global seed vault in Norway
Last month, the ILRI Forage Genebank delivered a second set of 389 accessions of 69 species representing 25 forage genera to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway for safety duplication. Continue reading
Ten questions and answers about ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station
This brief Q&A is intended to set the record straight about what ILRI is, what we’re doing at Kapiti, and what makes our title to the land there so secure. Continue reading
ILRI publishes caveat emptor on Kapiti land grab attempts
ILRI purchased an advertisement in the Kenyan newspaper, The Standard, regarding recent developments at the Kapiti Research Station, which appeared on Saturday, 27 October 2018. Continue reading
New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost USD110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
Originally posted on AgHealth:
Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank study finds that the impact of unsafe food costs low- and middle-income economies about US$ 110 billion in lost productivity and medical expenses each year. Yet a large proportion of these costs could be avoided by adopting…
World Food Day in Ethiopia: Achieving food and nutritional security—and better lives—through livestock
Siboniso Moyo, the representative in Ethiopia of Jimmy Smith, the director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), made the following remarks at an event in Mojo, Ethiopia, to celebrate World Food Day today. Continue reading
IFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs
Food research organizations say sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs. Continue reading
German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet
ILRI was honoured this week (3 Sep 2018) to host a high-level German delegation including Maria Flachsbarth, parliamentary state secretary to Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, and Stefan Schmitz, deputy director of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as well as senior staff of the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation, including Andrew Tuimur, chief administrative secretary, and Ann Onyango, agriculture secretary; and representatives from several other CGIAR centres working in Kenya, including Tony Simons, director general of ICRAF, and representatives from the Nairobi-based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). Continue reading