Category Archives: Agriculture

African Development Bank-supported livestock team and Nigerian agricultural lending agency to scale up proven animal production technologies
Agriculture / CGIAR / Chickens / Intensification / ISP / Livelihoods / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Pro-Poor Livestock / Scaling / Small Ruminants / Value Chains / West Africa

African Development Bank-supported livestock team and Nigerian agricultural lending agency to scale up proven animal production technologies

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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) leads the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) livestock compact, members of which recently met with a USD500-million public-private partnership in Nigeria established to ‘de-risk’ agricultural financing by providing many of the actors along the country’s agricultural value chains with affordable financing. TAAT is targeting 3–5 million farmers in the country. Continue reading →

Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’
Africa / Agriculture / Communications / Drylands / Event Report / Film and Video / Gender / IBLI / ILRI / Insurance / Kenya / LIVESTOCKCRP / Research / SLS / Spotlight / Staff / Women

Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’

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For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great agricultural-research-for-development storytellers. Continue reading →

The Tanzanian livestock master plan: A conversation with Barry Shapiro
Agriculture / Animal Breeding / Animal Feeding / Animal Production / Dairying / East Africa / Interview / Livestock / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCKCRP / Policy / Research / Tanzania

The Tanzanian livestock master plan: A conversation with Barry Shapiro

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Using what’s called the Livestock Sector Investment Policy Toolkit (LSIPT), we develop a dynamic herd model and an economic sector model on top of that. And we use that to do an analysis of the current situation of the livestock sector and its potential for further development, modernization, transformation, and so on, over 15 years. Continue reading →

In Tanzania, a better cow is the way to a better future
ADGG / Agriculture / Animal Breeding / Animal Health / Animal Production / Article / Cattle / Dairying / Genetics / LiveGene / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Southern Africa / Tanzania

In Tanzania, a better cow is the way to a better future

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Farmers who participate in the breeding programs and collect routine data on their cows’ health, growth and productivity receive personalized coaching and advice from livestock outreach specialists via routine visits and SMS messages on their phones. Continue reading →

How changing the world’s food systems can help to protect the planet
Agriculture / Animal Breeding / Cattle / CCAFS / Climate Change / Environment / ILRI / LiveGene / Livestock / Mazingira / News clipping / Opinion Piece / Spotlight

How changing the world’s food systems can help to protect the planet

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Food systems must be transformed to produce more nutritious food with a lower environmental footprint. There are a number of initiatives around the world working towards this end. Here are just five that use different kinds of science—from smart approaches to breeding livestock and crops to recycling wastewater—that could help humans settle their growing debt to the planet. Continue reading →

The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
Agriculture / East Africa / Gender / Impact Assessment / Livelihoods / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / PIL / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research / Science paper / Spotlight / Tanzania / Women

The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation

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Recently, a team of scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), led by anthropologist Alessandra Galiè, in collaboration with Emory University, developed the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI), a new index to assess the empowerment of women in production systems in which livestock are important. Continue reading →

Kenyan President Kenyatta headlines national conference at ILRI Nairobi on innovations in Kenya’s agricultural sector
Agri-Health / Agriculture / Animal Breeding / Animal Feeding / Animal Health / Animal Production / Animal Products / Cattle / CGIAR / Climate Change / Dairying / Disease Control / Drylands / East Africa / Event Report / Fodder / Food Security / IBLI / ILRI / Intensification / Kenya / LIVESTOCKCRP / Markets / Nutrition / Pastoralism / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Rangelands / Scaling / SLS / Small Ruminants / Spotlight / Value Chains

Kenyan President Kenyatta headlines national conference at ILRI Nairobi on innovations in Kenya’s agricultural sector

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Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the 400 guests at the national conference of the Feed the Future Kenya Accelerating Value Chain Development project at ILRI on 27 Apr 2018. Continue reading →

Escaping rural hunger and poverty in the developing world: A Global Farming Data Competition
Agriculture / Article / Data / Farming Systems / Food Security / Poverty / Pro-Poor Livestock / SLS

Escaping rural hunger and poverty in the developing world: A Global Farming Data Competition

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ILRI and the Jean Golding Data Science Institute at the University of Bristol, UK, are challenging any data lovers to come up with novel, useful or exciting ways to use a big new dataset to improve understanding of farming practices and outcomes in low-income countries. Continue reading →