Category Archives: Research

Elite buffaloes and other exemplars of advanced Indian dairy science at the National Dairy Research Institute
Agriculture / Animal Breeding / Animal Production / Biotechnology / Breeds / Buffalo / Cattle / Dairying / Event / Genetics / ILRI / India / Livestock / Research / South Asia

Elite buffaloes and other exemplars of advanced Indian dairy science at the National Dairy Research Institute

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Shrestha, a spirited buffalo bull, greeted Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), with a low grunt during a visit Smith and his delegation recently made at the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), India’s pre-eminent dairy research centre, located in the northern city of Karnal and the prosperous state of Haryana. Continue reading →

Harnessing livestock for the Sustainable Development Goals
Agriculture / Consumption / Directorate / Environment / Food Security / Livelihoods / Livestock / Presentation / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research

Harnessing livestock for the Sustainable Development Goals

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One of the fastest growing subsectors in agriculture–livestock–can significantly contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if the opportunities it offers, especially for people in developing countries, are harnessed for economic growth, improved livelihoods and food and nutritional security. Continue reading →

Florida and ILRI start consultations on new ‘Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems’
Africa / Agriculture / Animal Feeding / Animal Production / ASSP / Burkina Faso / Cambodia / Capacity Strengthening / Ethiopia / Event / Farming Systems / Food Safety / Gender / Human Health / ILRI / Livestock / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCKFISH / Mali / Nepal / Nutrition / PIL / Project / Research / Rwanda / South Asia / Southeast Asia

Florida and ILRI start consultations on new ‘Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems’

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The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems, led by the University of Florida, is currently organizing a number of stakeholder consultation meetings to identify high-priority needs in the six countries it will cover (Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda). ILRI is a close partner in this new initiative and it helped organize the Ethiopia consultation meeting in Feb 2016. Continue reading →

ILRI’s Shirley Tarawali joins global livestock industry leaders to discuss beef’s role in feeding the world
Agriculture / Directorate / Food Security / ILRI / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Presentation / Research / Spotlight / USA

ILRI’s Shirley Tarawali joins global livestock industry leaders to discuss beef’s role in feeding the world

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Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), will today (Friday, 4 Mar 2016) join global livestock industry leaders to discuss ‘Beef’s role in feeding the world’ at the International Livestock Congress (ILC), in Houston, USA. Continue reading →

Livestock and the Sustainable Development Goals
CGIAR / Consumption / Directorate / Environment / Food Security / ILRI / ILRIComms / Livelihoods / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / Research / Spotlight

Livestock and the Sustainable Development Goals

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CGIAR livestock scientists are working actively to help the world meet the SDGs. We are intentionally tailoring our livestock-related knowledge products, technologies, institutional arrangements and policy support to provide new options for meeting specific SDGs by addressing developing world livestock problems and opportunities. Continue reading →

Celebrating 15 years of African agricultural biosciences excellence
Africa / Agri-Health / BecA / Biotechnology / Capacity Strengthening / Directorate / Event Report / Food Security / Human Health / ILRI / ILRIComms / Research / Spotlight

Celebrating 15 years of African agricultural biosciences excellence

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The #CelebrateBecA event brought together global, regional and local actors in agricultural biosciences research for development to mark the Hub’s achievements and deliberate on further ways to scale its programs and impacts to advance African agriculture and food and nutritional security. Click through the story pages above to get an overview of the celebrations and plenary presentations, or view the same storify on ILRI’s Storify site. Continue reading →

The BecA-ILRI Hub celebrates 15 years of biosciences in and for Africa
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The BecA-ILRI Hub celebrates 15 years of biosciences in and for Africa

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Coming up next week is an event marking the 15th anniversary of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research (BecA-ILRI) Hub, located in Nairobi, Kenya, and working with partners across the continent as well as with bioscience institutions worldwide. Continue reading →

Ethiopia-CGIAR country consultation meeting identifies five action areas for enhanced collaboration
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Ethiopia-CGIAR country consultation meeting identifies five action areas for enhanced collaboration

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Five concrete areas of collaboration have been recommended in a meeting of CGIAR centres and national partners and key stakeholders in a move to better align CGIAR activities with the national Growth and Transformation Plan II (GTP 2015-2020). Continue reading →