At ILRI’s 8 Mar WiDS 2019 meeting, early-career data scientists will be able to interact with experts already impacting the real world using the data that they have generated and analysed. Continue reading
Category Archives: Data
Advocacy / Agriculture / Article / Data / Event / Food Security / Germany / ILRI / Livestock / Policy
Sustainable livestock goes digital
On Thursday 17 January 2019, the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and ILRI hosted a workshop on the theme of ‘Sustainable livestock goes digital’ at the 11th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin. Continue reading
Africa / Consumption / Data / East Africa / Health / Kenya / Nutrition / Project
A new project promises to generate better dietary and health data for agriculture and nutrition interventions in Africa
The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) are implementing a project on ‘Improving Dietary and Health Data for Decision-making in Agriculture and Nutrition Actions in Africa’ with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Continue reading
Agriculture / Article / Data / Farming Systems / Food Security / Poverty / Pro-Poor Livestock / SLS / United Kingdom
Escaping rural hunger and poverty in the developing world: A Global Farming Data Competition
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
Communications / Data / Event Report / ILRI / ILRIComms / India / Knowledge and Information / South Asia / Spotlight
‘Leveling’ livestock information: Knowledge management at an ICAR–ILRI communications workshop
To share best practices and explore opportunities for collaboration, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) held a joint communications and knowledge management workshop on 4 Mar 2016 at the National Agricultural Science Centre Complex in New Delhi, India. Continue reading
Agriculture / CGIAR / Climate Change / Data / Event Report / Policy / Poverty / Research / Spotlight
Agricultural research, rural poverty and climate change—(Some of) the weakest links
We’ve been a bit quiet recently on the ILRI blog front as we focused on covering the Science Forum 2016 organized by the Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) of CGIAR, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12–14 Mar 2016. Below are links to a couple of the more challenging presentations. Continue reading
