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Help smallholders protect their environments and adapt to climate change––IFAD president challenges livestock researchers
Agriculture / Climate Change / Ethiopia / Food Security / ILRI40 / Livestock / Livestock Systems

Help smallholders protect their environments and adapt to climate change––IFAD president challenges livestock researchers

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In his keynote address to the ILRI@40 conference on the first morning, Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), highlighted high-priority areas where livestock research can make the greatest contribution to poverty reduction and better food security in future. Continue reading →

Addis Ababa conference marks 40-year anniversary of world’s leading livestock-research-for-development institute
Directorate / Ethiopia / Event / Food Security / Human Health / ILRI / ILRI40 / Livestock / Poultry / Poverty / Pro-Poor Livestock / Spotlight

Addis Ababa conference marks 40-year anniversary of world’s leading livestock-research-for-development institute

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To mark 40 years of international research this year, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been facilitating a series of events highlighting the ways livestock research advances the global development agenda, specifically for food and nutritional security, economic well-being and healthy lives. This Thursday and Friday (6–7 Nov 2014), ILRI is hosting a two-day high-profile conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where ILRI has a principal campus and has carried out livestock research for development for the last four decades. Continue reading →

African animal agriculture: Grasping opportunities as a great livestock transition gets under way
Africa / Animal Production / Animal Products / Directorate / Event / ILRI / ILRI40 / Kenya / Presentation / Pro-Poor Livestock / Spotlight

African animal agriculture: Grasping opportunities as a great livestock transition gets under way

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ILRI director general Jimmy Smith made a keynote presentation at the 6th All African Conference on Animal Agriculture (AACAA), held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, in Nairobi, Kenya, 27–29 Oct 2014. The slide presentation is above and a summary below. Continue reading →

Small farmers and big retailing: What works? What doesn’t? in developing countries
Agriculture / Dairying / Fish / ILRI / Innovation Systems / PIL / PIM / Presentation / Spotlight / Tanzania / Thailand / Trade / Uganda

Small farmers and big retailing: What works? What doesn’t? in developing countries

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What, or who, is a smallholder farmer? What is the ongoing retail revolution in developing countries all about? Are small-scale farmers involved? Two agricultural economists, Derek Baker, formerly of ILRI and now at the University of New England (UNE), in Australia, and Jo Cadilhon, of ILRI, help us think this through in a presentation they made at the GLOBALG.A.P. Summit in Abu Dhabi this week. Continue reading →

A major presentation on ‘the power of livestock’ to transform today’s resource-scarce agricultural lands
Agriculture / Animal Production / Brazil / China / Consumption / Directorate / Environment / Event / ILRI / ILRI40 / Intensification / Livestock Systems / Niger / Nutrition / Presentation / Spotlight

A major presentation on ‘the power of livestock’ to transform today’s resource-scarce agricultural lands

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A major presentation was made at a special side event at the Borlaug Dialogue, in Iowa, on 15 Oct 2014. The side event was hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) as part of a series marking ILRI’s 40-year anniversary this year. The presentation was made by Chris Delgado, who in 1999 led ground-breaking studies showing that a ‘Livestock Revolution’ was taking place in the global South. Continue reading →

ILRI@40: Video note on One Health research priorities in Southeast Asia
A4NH / Agri-Health / Agriculture / Film and Video / Food Safety / FSZ / ILRI40 / Southeast Asia / Vietnam / Zoonotic Diseases

ILRI@40: Video note on One Health research priorities in Southeast Asia

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In this short film (1:17 mins), Hung Nguyen, a food safety scientist with ILRI in Vietnam, reflects on a recent discussion at a regional workshop on livestock and One Health that identified research priorities in Southeast Asia for the next 40 years. Continue reading →

ILRI@40: Filmed interview with M S Swaminathan on synergies between technology and public policy in India  
Agriculture / Asia / Film and Video / ILRI40 / India / Research

ILRI@40: Filmed interview with M S Swaminathan on synergies between technology and public policy in India  

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In this 4-minute film, Purvi Mehta-Bhatt from ILRI in India talks with MS Swaminathan on the establishment of ILRI its contributions to synergies between livestock research and public policy in India, especially in supporting the country’s dairy production. Continue reading →

In Des Moines for the World Food Prize? Join the special BMGF-ILRI livestock roundtable this evening, 15 Oct
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In Des Moines for the World Food Prize? Join the special BMGF-ILRI livestock roundtable this evening, 15 Oct

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If you’re in Des Moines, Iowa, this week for the World Food Prize (16 Oct 2014) and Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium (15–17 Oct 2014), please join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) this evening (Wed, 15 Oct), at 7:30 pm (19:30 CTZ), for a lively roundtable discussion on Livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security. Continue reading →