New One Health Centre in Africa joins global efforts to prevent future pandemics

Posted on 3 Nov 2020 by Ekta Patel • 1 Comment

The newly launched One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre in Africa (OHRECA) at ILRI will contribute towards addressing neglected zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety and emerging infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda

Posted on 25 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 1 Comment

Driven by rising incomes, demand for animal-source foods in Africa and Asia is expected to increase up to 200% by 2030. Efficient crop and livestock production and natural resource use will drive employment, environmental, nutrition and income gains in a subsector likely to be dominated by smallholders.

Africa / Article / Biodiversity / Cattle / Corporate Report / Genetics / ILRI / LiveGene / LIVESTOCKCRP / Species / Spotlight

DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity

Posted on 19 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

Important sources of meat, milk, traction and manure across Africa, cattle will become even more significant as demand for meat and milk is expected to more than double in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2030.

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Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa

Posted on 17 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

The implementation of effective mitigation strategies relies on accurate GHG emission data. But what if the underlying assumptions upon which these GHG emission estimates are based are inaccurate?

Corporate Report / Crop-Livestock / ILRI / Intensification / LIVESTOCKCRP / SLS / Spotlight / Value Chains / Zimbabwe

Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe

Posted on 13 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

With growing food demand, the adoption of crop and livestock technologies and more efficient markets offer opportunities to enhance agricultural production, food security and resilience in rural Zimbabwe.

Corporate Report / Dairying / Ethiopia / ILRI / ISP / Livelihoods / LIVES / LIVESTOCKCRP / Spotlight

Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia

Posted on 11 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 1 Comment

With incomes rapidly rising in Ethiopia, increasing milk yields and the sale of dairy products hold huge potential for the rural population whose livelihoods largely depend on livestock farming.

Dairying / Gender / ILRI / India / ISP / LIVESTOCKCRP

Dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in India

Posted on 9 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural communities in India. Strengthening the efficiency of the Uttarakhand dairy market offers major opportunities to smallholders to expand production and sales of milk.

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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam

Posted on 6 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods and nutritional security of Vietnamese people. More than 65% of rural households depend on pig farming for their livelihoods.

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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes

Posted on 4 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 1 Comment

East Coast fever causes annual losses estimated at more than USD300 million and more than one million cattle deaths. Recent research-for-development approaches have accelerated the uptake of the ITM vaccine and demonstrated how its use is driving increased incomes for small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya and Tanzania.

Africa / Article / BecA / Chickens / Corporate Report / ILRI / Kenya / Spotlight / Vaccines

Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women

Posted on 2 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

Poultry farming in Kenya is growing rapidly and remains largely dominated by women, who typically invest most of their earnings in feeding their families and educating their children. That is why controlling major poultry diseases is so important.

Agriculture / Drought / Drylands / Pastoralism

Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Expert opinion agrees that the best way to tap into the potential of the drylands is to build on the foundation of their livestock economies rather than ignoring them or seeking to replace them.

Agriculture / Climate Change / Environment / LIVESTOCKFISH

Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

For people living in absolute poverty and chronic hunger, the solution is not to rid the world of livestock, but to find ways to farm animals more efficiently and more sustainably

Crop-Livestock / Crops / Intensification / Livestock

Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Mixed crop-and-livestock farms will, more than the traditional breadbaskets and rice bowls of the past, feed the developing world over the next few decades.

Crop Residues / Crop-Livestock / Intensification / Livestock

Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Making smallholder production more competitive is a powerful tool to reduce poverty, raise nutrition levels and improve the livelihoods of rural people in many developing countries

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An updated look at ILRI research programs: The Biosciences eastern and central Africa-ILRI Hub

Posted on 7 Oct 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A first look at a revamped ILRI research initiative: Biosciences eastern and central Africa-ILRI Hub Continue reading →

Animal Feeding / Crop-Livestock / Feeds / FFD / Fodder / Forages / ILRI / Spotlight

A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Feed and Forage Development

Posted on 7 Oct 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A first look at a revamped ILRI research program: Feed and Forage Development Continue reading →

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A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Animal and Human Health

Posted on 6 Oct 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A first look at a revamped ILRI research program: Animal and Human Health Continue reading →

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

Posted on 5 Oct 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A first look at a revamped ILRI research program: Livestock Genetics Continue reading →

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Kenya’s wildlife populations are in ‘widespread’ and ‘catastrophic’ decline—New study

Posted on 1 Oct 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Here’s a wake up call for all those who care about Kenya’s rich heritage of wild animals, rangelands and pastoral peoples. A new study reporting on the period from 1977 to 2016 says wildlife on the rangelands of Kenya, which still support some of the richest herds of mammals on earth, is in precipitous decline while populations of goats and sheep are increasingly sharply. Continue reading →

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Improving food safety and human health through agricultural research: CGIAR future plans

Posted on 15 Sep 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A useful summary of the future plans of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Washington, DC, has been published. Two of the five flagships of this multi-institutional research program are led or co-led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Nairobi, Kenya. Future work of these two flagships is described below. Continue reading →

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India and Vietnam in South-South collaboration on shared pig breeds, production systems and cultures

Posted on 6 Sep 2016 by Jules Mateo • Leave a comment

Nagaland launches a comprehensive state pig-breeding policy, the first of its kind in India, developed through participatory and consultative processes. Continue reading →

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Cloned bull could contribute to development of disease-resistant African cattle

Posted on 5 Sep 2016 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

A note in a scientific journal gives an update on long-term research to develop African cattle resistant to the Africa animal disease known as trypanosomiasis. The aim of this research is to help reduce widespread poverty and hunger on the continent by improving livestock livelihoods. Continue reading →

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Kenyan economist Andrew Mude wins the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application

Posted on 31 Aug 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Andrew Mude, a principal research scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya, was yesterday named the 5th recipient of a prestigious award for his work in providing insurance to livestock herders in East Africa’s drylands through innovative, state-of-the-art technologies. Continue reading →

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KALRO–ILRI agreement to deepen cooperation in livestock research in Kenya

Posted on 29 Aug 2016 by Paul Karaimu • 1 Comment

On 29 August 2016, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and the International Livestock Research Institute signed a memorandum of agreement that will pave way for deepening their collaboration in agricultural research for development. Continue reading →

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better lives through livestock

New One Health Centre in Africa joins global efforts to prevent future pandemics

Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda

DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity

Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa

Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe

Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia

Dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in India

Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam

Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes

Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women

Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism

Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change

Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world

Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor

An updated look at ILRI research programs: The Biosciences eastern and central Africa-ILRI Hub

A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Feed and Forage Development

A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Animal and Human Health

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

Kenya’s wildlife populations are in ‘widespread’ and ‘catastrophic’ decline—New study

Improving food safety and human health through agricultural research: CGIAR future plans

India and Vietnam in South-South collaboration on shared pig breeds, production systems and cultures

Cloned bull could contribute to development of disease-resistant African cattle

Kenyan economist Andrew Mude wins the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application

KALRO–ILRI agreement to deepen cooperation in livestock research in Kenya