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Year-end livestock lists: Favourite presentations
Miss some presentations of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) this year? Arranged by topic below are some of our favourites. What were yours? What are we missing? List them in the Comment box below, please! And remember to check ILRI’s Slideshare site for all our presentations and posters: http://www.slideshare.net/ILRI Continue reading
Article / CCAFS / Climate Change / ILRI / Livelihoods / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Pro-Poor Livestock / SLS / Spotlight / Vulnerability
Livestock and climate change: Where the BIG opportunities lie
Agricultural management can do only so much to increase the resilience, diversification and risk management of the developing world’s livestock-keeping communities. Their successful adaptation to climate change depends heavily also on their being supported by enabling policy and other environments. What that in turn depends on is reliable evidence of just how big a difference livestock adaptations can make to household incomes and food security provided in timely ways and appropriate formats. Continue reading
Animal Feeding / Animal Production / Animal Products / Biotechnology / Directorate / Event Report / ILRI / ILRI40 / Intensification / Livestock Systems / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research / Spotlight
Animal agriculture research director envisions developing-world livestock sector in 2054
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), provided a vision of what livestock production in the developing world will look like in 2054, 40 years from now. He presented this on the first of a two-day conference being held this week (6–7 Nov 2014) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to mark the 40-year anniversary of ILRI. Continue reading
Help smallholders protect their environments and adapt to climate change––IFAD president challenges livestock researchers
In his keynote address to the ILRI@40 conference on the first morning, Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), highlighted high-priority areas where livestock research can make the greatest contribution to poverty reduction and better food security in future. Continue reading
Directorate / Ethiopia / Event / Food Security / Human Health / ILRI / ILRI40 / Livestock / Poultry / Poverty / Pro-Poor Livestock / Spotlight
Addis Ababa conference marks 40-year anniversary of world’s leading livestock-research-for-development institute
To mark 40 years of international research this year, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been facilitating a series of events highlighting the ways livestock research advances the global development agenda, specifically for food and nutritional security, economic well-being and healthy lives. This Thursday and Friday (6–7 Nov 2014), ILRI is hosting a two-day high-profile conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where ILRI has a principal campus and has carried out livestock research for development for the last four decades. Continue reading
Africa / Animal Production / Animal Products / Directorate / Event / ILRI / ILRI40 / Kenya / Presentation / Pro-Poor Livestock / Spotlight
African animal agriculture: Grasping opportunities as a great livestock transition gets under way
ILRI director general Jimmy Smith made a keynote presentation at the 6th All African Conference on Animal Agriculture (AACAA), held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, in Nairobi, Kenya, 27–29 Oct 2014. The slide presentation is above and a summary below. Continue reading
Agriculture / Dairying / Fish / ILRI / Innovation Systems / PIL / PIM / Presentation / Spotlight / Tanzania / Thailand / Trade / Uganda
Small farmers and big retailing: What works? What doesn’t? in developing countries
What, or who, is a smallholder farmer? What is the ongoing retail revolution in developing countries all about? Are small-scale farmers involved? Two agricultural economists, Derek Baker, formerly of ILRI and now at the University of New England (UNE), in Australia, and Jo Cadilhon, of ILRI, help us think this through in a presentation they made at the GLOBALG.A.P. Summit in Abu Dhabi this week. Continue reading
Agriculture / Animal Production / Brazil / China / Consumption / Directorate / Environment / Event / ILRI / ILRI40 / Intensification / Livestock Systems / Niger / Nutrition / Presentation / Spotlight
A major presentation on ‘the power of livestock’ to transform today’s resource-scarce agricultural lands
A major presentation was made at a special side event at the Borlaug Dialogue, in Iowa, on 15 Oct 2014. The side event was hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) as part of a series marking ILRI’s 40-year anniversary this year. The presentation was made by Chris Delgado, who in 1999 led ground-breaking studies showing that a ‘Livestock Revolution’ was taking place in the global South. Continue reading
ILRI Asia staff appointments: April–October 2014
Update on ILRI Asia national staff appointments April-October 2014 Continue reading
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