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Mixing crops and livestock: Means for global food and nutritional security
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Mixing crops and livestock: Means for global food and nutritional security

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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)
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Natural resources: Abundant or scarce? (That would depend on just how ‘natural’ we think human resources are)

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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
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ILRI international staff appointments: July–August 2014

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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
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Livestock options to meet development goals: ILRI side event at Tropentag Conference in Prague

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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 →

ILRI@tropentag 2014: Livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security and healthy lives
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ILRI@tropentag 2014: Livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security and healthy lives

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On 18 September, as part of its events marking 40 years of international livestock research, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) holds a side event at Tropentag 2014 on Livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security and healthy lives. It will highlight products of livestock research contributing to the global development agenda, from generating research products (performing) to targeting research investments and policymaking (informing) to reshaping whole livestock production systems (transforming). Continue reading →

New studies on MERS coronavirus and camels in eastern Africa published
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New studies on MERS coronavirus and camels in eastern Africa published

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Two new papers on MERS (Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome) coronavirus and camels in Eastern Africa have been published in the science journal ‘Emerging Infectious Diseases’; three of the authors are ILRI scientists. Continue reading →

Scottish and Kenya scientists in new alliance to improve animal breeding and health in developing countries
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Scottish and Kenya scientists in new alliance to improve animal breeding and health in developing countries

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Challenges faced by livestock farmers in tropical developing countries are the focus of a new alliance involving researchers from Scotland and Africa. The new Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health will initially focus on the use of genetic information to improve the health and productivity of farmed animals in tropical climates. Continue reading →

New map: Benefits of controlling trypanosomosis in the Horn of Africa
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New map: Benefits of controlling trypanosomosis in the Horn of Africa

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Using the Horn of Africa as an example, the maps illustrate different steps in a methodology developed to estimate and map the economic benefits to livestock keepers of controlling a disease (Shaw et al. 2014). Cattle are first assigned to different production systems as shown in Map 1, illustrating for example, where mixed farming is heavily dependent on the use of draft oxen in Ethiopia, areas of Sudan and South Sudan where oxen use is much lower, and the strictly pastoral areas of Somalia and Kenya. Continue reading →

New map: Impacts of climate change on length of growing periods in Africa
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New map: Impacts of climate change on length of growing periods in Africa

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Impacts of climate change on length of growing periods in Africa by Philip Thornton The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has published an atlas illustrating the current state of African smallholder agriculture. The Atlas of African Agriculture Research and Development comprises a series of maps and short analyses that showcase and locate the continent’s diverse agricultural … Continue reading →