Category Archives: Intensification

A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Sustainable Livestock Systems
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A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Sustainable Livestock Systems

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BETTER SCIENCE, BETTER LIVES The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), headquartered in Africa and working in poor countries worldwide to provide better lives through livestock, held its Institute Planning Meeting from 4 to 7 Oct 2016. This is the sixth of a series of blog articles reporting on plans for ILRI research programs, including ILRI’s work in … Continue reading →

UN endorses recommendations on sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition, including the role of livestock
Advocacy / Animal Production / Consumption / Event Report / Food Security / FSZ / GLAD / ILRI / Intensification / Livelihoods / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Spotlight

UN endorses recommendations on sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition, including the role of livestock

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The Policy Round Table of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), meeting in Rome on 17 Oct 2016, discussed the report on Sustainable Agricultural Development for Food Security and Nutrition: What Roles for Livestock? The report had been launched on 1 July in Rome and is now available in all of the UN languages. The Plenary Session of the Committee endorsed a set of recommendations, drafted during preliminary negotiations led by Ambassador Yaya Olaniran (Nigeria). Continue reading →

High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition launches sustainable livestock development report
Animal Feeding / Animal Production / Animal Products / Event Report / Food Safety / Food Security / ILRI / Intensification / Launch / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Nutrition / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / SLS / Spotlight

High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition launches sustainable livestock development report

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In October 2014, the Committee on Food Security requested the High-Level Panel of Experts for Food Security and Nutrition to prepare a report on sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition, including the role of livestock. An important planning meeting was held at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Continue reading →

Livestock can significantly reduce greenhouse gases AND deliver benefits to the poor–Nature Climate Change
Animal Production / Article / CCAFS / Climate Change / Environment / ILRI / Intensification / Livestock Systems / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / SLS / Spotlight

Livestock can significantly reduce greenhouse gases AND deliver benefits to the poor–Nature Climate Change

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Mario Herrero, chief research scientist for Food Systems and the Environment at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in Australia, and colleagues have published a paper in Nature Climate Change on Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector. Continue reading →

Is the ‘Third Epidemiological Transition’ upon us?
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Is the ‘Third Epidemiological Transition’ upon us?

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Zoonoses—diseases transferred from animals to humans—have been with humanity throughout history. But today’s growing scale of livestock production in developing countries to feed their fast-growing and fast-urbanizing populations is sparking debate about whether the livestock sector is contributing to a fundamental a shift in global disease mortality, something known as an ‘epidemiological transition’. If so, it would be the third such transition in human history. Continue reading →

Forage farming changes lives of Zimbabwe smallholder farmers
Animal Feeding / ASSP / Crop-Livestock / DRYLANDSCRP / Food Security / Forages / ILRI / Intensification / Livelihoods / Livestock / Project / Southern Africa / Zimbabwe

Forage farming changes lives of Zimbabwe smallholder farmers

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Many rural households in Zimbabwe rely on food aid to meet their nutritional needs. This problem, often aggravated by unemployment and falls in income, threatens the livelihoods of low income and food-insecure populations. Continue reading →

No longer business as usual: Improved feeds transforming dairying in Zimbabwe
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No longer business as usual: Improved feeds transforming dairying in Zimbabwe

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Farmers participating in the Zimbabwe Crop-Livestock Integration for Food Security (ZimCLIFS) project have increased their gross margins by up to 70%. The ongoing food security improvement project is targeting the country’s dairy farmers to help improve feed farming and overall dairy production. Continue reading →

Small producers are big opportunities for a healthy, safe and sustainable global livestock sector
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Small producers are big opportunities for a healthy, safe and sustainable global livestock sector

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Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), gave a keynote presentation at the International Federation for Animal Health–Europe conference Healthy Animals, Healthy Food, a Healthy Future, held in Brussels on 11 Jun 2015. Continue reading →

Chickens rule — Everywhere — Everyday — Every way
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Chickens rule — Everywhere — Everyday — Every way

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When, exactly, did the chicken move out of our backyards and into our front rooms, taking over our kitchens and imaginations? When did it stop being a bird peasants kept to serve up the occasional egg, and the daily morning crow, and become meat for daily gobbling? Continue reading →