Click on the slides below to view a ‘Storify’ collection of highlights of inputs and outputs of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) at the CGIAR Development Dialogues, held at Columbia University, in New York City, last week (25 Sep 2014). Continue reading
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ILRI Ethiopia staff appointments: July–August 2014
Update on ILRI Ethiopia national staff appointments July–August 2014. Continue reading
CTA-ILRI African dairy value chain seminar closes with colourful results
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) organized the CTA-ILRI African dairy value chain seminar from 21 to 24 September 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya. Continue reading
Getting agriculture ‘back on the table’: CGIAR Development Dialogues today in New York
Scientists, politicians and donor agents are gathering today at a high-level meeting in New York called CGIAR Development Dialogues. The aim of CGIAR, a global alliance of agricultural science for a food-secure future, in hosting this conference is to sharpen the world’s attention on the vital roles of agriculture, livestock, fisheries, landscapes and food systems in sustainable development. Continue reading
ILRI Kenya staff appointments: July–August 2014
Update on ILRI Nairobi national staff appointments July–August 2014. Continue reading
Livestock innovation systems: Research contributions from ILRI over the decades
In this presentation, given at the Tropentag 2014 conference, Ann Waters-Bayer, a former ILRI researcher, looks back on her experiences of working with ILCA/ILRI, the impact of livestock innovation systems research and its role in driving development processes that improve the livelihoods of rural and urban resource-poor families. Continue reading
Mixing crops and livestock: Means for global food and nutritional security
A slide presentation ILRI director general Jimmy Smith presented last July on why we should care about the world’s ‘so-called ‘mixed’ crop-and-livestock agricultural systems. Continue reading
Natural resources: Abundant or scarce? (That would depend on just how ‘natural’ we think human resources are)
The topic of this year’s Tropentag International Conference, being held in Prague, Czech Republic, and which opened today, is ‘Bridging the gap between increasing knowledge and decreasing resources’. Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), gave a keynote presentation at the opening titled The interplay of knowledge and natural resources: Health, wealth and environmental benefits of livestock. Continue reading
ILRI international staff appointments: July–August 2014
Songe Mwansa joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as a post-doctoral fellow-epidemiologist/ food safety expert on 1 July 2014. Her role in this position is to assess the food safety and related issues in marginalized communities in the Western Province of Zambia. Mwansa is a veterinary pathologist and fish health specialist and has worked as a … Continue reading
Livestock options to meet development goals: ILRI side event at Tropentag Conference in Prague
A side event at the Tropentag 2014 International Conference, being held at the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, is being organized tomorrow, 18 Sep 2014, from 1400–1530, by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Continue reading