Policies, Institutons and Livelihoods program
ILRI’s Jo Cadilhon introduces a method being tried out in Senegal to measure the social impacts of dairy supply chain innovation in pastoralist societies.
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Today, for the first time in Africa, an insurance policy that combines an Islamic-compliant financial instrument with innovative use of satellite imagery is compensating Muslim pastoralists for drought-induced losses suffered in Kenya’s northeastern Wajir County, where livestock are valued at Ksh46 billion (USD550 million). Continue reading
Happy International Women’s Day from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)! Continue reading
The goat production manual is useful to paraveterinary workers, who serve rural villages in developing countries and farmers wanting to step up their goat production. Continue reading
This 2-minute film presents a ‘day in the life’ of a research-for-development project working to improve smallholder pig production in Uganda. The film highlights the big opportunities as well as challenges faced by small-scale pig producers in this East African country. Continue reading
Without becoming more visible, and gaining greater attention by researchers, government policymakers, non-governmental organizations and entrepreneurs, Uganda’s pig sector potential is unlikely to be fully exploited anytime soon. Continue reading
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