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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors
Animal Breeding / Animal Feeding / Animal Health / Animal Production / Cattle / Chickens / Dairying / East Africa / Ethiopia / Food Security / Intensification / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCKCRP / PIL / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / Scaling / Small Ruminants / Spotlight / Trade / Value Chains

Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors

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A new livestock sector analysis from the Ethiopia’s Livestock State Ministry (LSM) and Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MoLF) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) was recently published. This work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to help Ethiopia in its fact-based planning. Continue reading →

New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia
ACGG / Animal Breeding / Communications / East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / Genetics / ILRI / Indigenous Breeds / LiveGene / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nutrition / Poultry / Women

New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia

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On 26 April 2018, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partner scientists and government officials join forces with Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen to launch the research facility and art installation, Incubated Worlds, a unique combination of art and science that aims to improve nutrition and incomes in East Africa with disease-resistant, climate-resilient poultry. Continue reading →

Empowering ruminant livestock enterprises in Mali—A Feed the Future-ILRI project
Animal Health / Capacity Strengthening / Cattle / CBPP / Forages / Goats / ILRI / ISP / LIVESTOCKCRP / Mali / Markets / PPR / Project / Report / Sheep / Small Ruminants / Spotlight / Vaccines / West Africa

Empowering ruminant livestock enterprises in Mali—A Feed the Future-ILRI project

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What happened in the Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (FTF-MLTSP) in early 2018? Open Day and stakeholder consultation for the program, PPR vaccine deployment, and market monitoring. Continue reading →

A 360-degree ‘immersive dive’ into Uganda’s smallholder pig sector
A4NH / Animal Production / CapDev / Communications / Consumption / East Africa / Film and Video / ILRI / ILRIComms / LIVESTOCKCRP / Markets / Pigs / PIL / Pro-Poor Livestock / Spotlight / Uganda / Value Chains

A 360-degree ‘immersive dive’ into Uganda’s smallholder pig sector

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As part of ILRI’s quest to pilot new technologies for better communication of its work, the institute’s Capacity Development Unit recently worked with scientific and staff based in Uganda to produce CGIAR’s first-ever 360-degree video, which offers glimpses into an ordinary day in the life of a Ugandan pig farmer, trader and consumer. Continue reading →

Scaling up use of livestock technologies in Mali—progress of a Feed the Future program
Agri-Health / Agriculture / Animal Feeding / Animal Health / Capacity Strengthening / Cattle / CBPP / Disease Control / English / Epidemiology / Feeds / Fodder / Goats / ILRI / ISP / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Mali / Pastoralism / PPR / Report / Sheep / Small Ruminants / West Africa

Scaling up use of livestock technologies in Mali—progress of a Feed the Future program

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The most recent progress report from the Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program describes some successes and swift progress made in recent months towards achieving these goals as well as some new challenges the program is facing. Continue reading →

Tanzania livestock master plan projects the creation of nearly two million jobs
Agriculture / East Africa / ILRI / Intensification / Livelihoods / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / PIL / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / Research / Tanzania

Tanzania livestock master plan projects the creation of nearly two million jobs

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Development assistance has long since slipped down in the agenda of African officials. With rapid economic growth forecast, priorities now focus on increasing productivity and investment. And in Tanzania, where approximately 37% of the rural households possess cattle, chicken, goats, pigs and sheep, livestock is officially at the centre of that debate. Continue reading →

Beyond meat and methane—Advocating for sustainable livestock production
Advocacy / AHH / Communications / Event Report / Food Security / GLAD / ILRI / Knowledge and Information / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Participation / PIL / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / SLS / Spotlight

Beyond meat and methane—Advocating for sustainable livestock production

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A Global Livestock Advocacy for Development (GLAD) project is distilling evidence around livestock ‘goods’ and ‘bads’, reaching out to UN and other global policy processes and events, engaging global media and developing a group of champions—individuals capacitated to make the case for sustainable livestock. Continue reading →

Closer, smarter integration of crops, animals and soils has bolstered food security, livelihoods and incomes in rural Zimbabwe
Animal Feeding / Animal Health / Animal Production / ASSP / Cattle / Crop-Livestock / DRYLANDSCRP / Event Report / Extension / Fodder / Food Security / Forages / Goats / ILRI / Impact Assessment / Legumes / LIVESTOCKCRP / LIVESTOCKFISH / Pro-Poor Livestock / Project / Soils / Southern Africa / Spotlight / Zimbabwe

Closer, smarter integration of crops, animals and soils has bolstered food security, livelihoods and incomes in rural Zimbabwe

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Partners and funders of a research-for-development project in rural Zimbabwe called ‘ZimCLIFS’ yesterday (18 Sep 2017) convened in the capital, Harare, to take stock of how small-scale mixed crop-and-livestock farmers improved their food and nutritional security and their livelihoods in four main districts (Goromonzi, Murewa, Gwanda and Nkayi, from 2012 to 2017) and in two spillover districts (Mutoko and Uzumba, from 2015 to 2017). Continue reading →

Hanoi workshop held on providing safer pork products in Vietnam
A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / AMR / Animal Health / Consumption / Disease Control / Event Report / Food Safety / Human Health / ILRI / LIVESTOCKCRP / Pigs / Pro-Poor Livestock / Southeast Asia / Spotlight / Value Chains / Vietnam

Hanoi workshop held on providing safer pork products in Vietnam

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A two-day workshop, 7–8 Sep 2017, on the topic of ‘Improving food safety along the pork value chain—lessons learned and ways forward’. The workshop consisted of two parts: (1) the closing of a project on ‘Reducing disease risks and improving food safety in smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam’, known as PigRISK, and (2) the launching of a project on ‘Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam’, known as SafePORK Continue reading →

New factories in Nigeria transform cassava peels into livestock feed, creating jobs and incomes for women
Agriculture / Animal Feeding / Crop Residues / Crop-Livestock / Crops / Event / Feeds / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Intensification / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Research / SLS / Value Chains / West Africa

New factories in Nigeria transform cassava peels into livestock feed, creating jobs and incomes for women

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A delegation comprising IFAD staff visited the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) cassava processing sites at Lokongoma, Wushishi (Niger State) and Idogodo, Okpokwu (Benue State) in late July, 2017 to discuss progress with this important project. Continue reading →