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.

Africa / ASF / Corporate Report / ILRI / LIVESTOCKCRP / Pigs / PIL / Spotlight / Uganda

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.

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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.

Africa / Article / CCAFS / Climate Change / Corporate Report / ILRI / Kenya / Mazingira / SLS / Spotlight

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.

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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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ILRI adopts new framework for scaling up livestock research for development

Posted on 16 Apr 2020 by Saba Ermyas • Leave a comment

ILRI’s Impact at Scale program reviewed the landscape of scaling with the aim of summarizing relevant approaches and tools that livestock projects can benefit from. The resulting ILRI framework provides an overview of the steps along with short summaries and assessments of nine tools related to scalability assessment. Continue reading →

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Africa’s growing risk of diseases that spread from animals to people

Posted on 8 Apr 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

In this post, Bernard Bett, Delia Randolph and John McDermott argue that not only are pandemics not over, they may be increasing in frequency; and while most originated in Asia in the past, Africa may be poised to become an important source of so-called ‘zoonotic pathogens’—with its population growth, rapid urbanization and rising global integration offering promising vectors for outbreaks. Continue reading →

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Senior Kenya government officials visit ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station

Posted on 25 Mar 2020 by Paul Karaimu • 1 Comment

Three senior Kenya government officials visited the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Kapiti research station on 18 Mar 2020. Continue reading →

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When did the chicken first cross the road?

Posted on 24 Mar 2020 by David Aronson • Leave a comment

‘The success of the chicken has a lot to do with its diversity, and that diversity was interwoven into its early evolution’ says International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) principal scientist Olivier Hanotte. Continue reading →

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Livestock route mapping for improved health of humans, animals and the environment

Posted on 20 Mar 2020 by Saba Ermyas • 2 Comments

ILRI and partners carried out a participatory mapping of livestock routes in the intervention areas in Somali and Oromia regions of Ethiopia as a first step in the planning of the HEARD and HEAL projects. Continue reading →

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ILRI trains East Africa officials on measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems

Posted on 13 Mar 2020 by Sarah Kasyoka • 2 Comments

On February 18 and 19 2020, ILRI hosted key government staff from the Climate Change and Livestock directorates within the ministries of environment and agriculture in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. The aim of the visit was to familiarize these key stakeholders with the technical aspects of ILRI’s research on climate change and livestock. Continue reading →

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Celebrating the ‘WILD’ (‘Women In Livestock Development’) at ILRI on International Women’s Day—Video

Posted on 6 Mar 2020 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

Check out this video short highlighting women working at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) for ‘better lives through livestock’ and key facts about the central importance of women in sustainable and equitable livestock development across the developing world. Continue reading →

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Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality

Posted on 6 Mar 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Gender accommodative and gender transformative interventions are informed by data collected with methods and tools. Here are four examples of tools ILRI scientists have used recently. Continue reading →

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On this International Women’s Day 2020, ILRI commits to strengthening women’s rights in livestock systems and enterprises

Posted on 6 Mar 2020 by Judy Kimani • Leave a comment

Achieving gender equality is vital to achieving sustainable, productive and climate-resilient food systems, says Nicoline de Haan, the acting coordinator of the CGIAR GENDER platform. Continue reading →

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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home

Posted on 6 Mar 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Below, in answer to the request for news of people’s ‘aha’ moments regarding their understanding of the central importance of gender in agricultural development, are four such stories from ILRI staff. Continue reading →

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