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From goat farming to goat business in India and Mozambique–New manual
Partners in a project in India and Mozambique to raise rural incomes through goat rearing have produced a manual to help paraveterinary workers and farmers, especially women and other marginalized...
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Getting (the band) back together: US climate report sees reconnecting crops...
Though less common in the United States than in developing countries, ILRI has long viewed farms that mix crop growing with livestock keeping as essential to overcoming challenges to global food...
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Case study on the first insurance for Africa’s camels, cows, sheep and goats
Image background by Mark Rothko, No 301, 1959 (via Daily Rothko Tumblr Blog). ‘On a hot morning in Nairobi in 2014, Andrew Mude, Team Leader for the Index-Based Livestock Insurance program (IBLI...
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Influencing developing-country decision-makers: 14 things that work–or don’t
Roy Lichtenstein, Hey You, 1973, (via WikiArt). Here is some useful advice for those of in development work on what developing-country decision-makers tend to listen to and what they tend to ignore....
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It’s simple (everybody eats); It’s complicated (everybody eats differently)
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Eyes and Eggs, 1983 (via WikiArt). The inestimable Tara Garnett, of the Food Climate Research Network, offers much new food for thought on ‘the meat question’ in a discussion...
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Reducing human exposure to aflatoxins in poor countries: Towards new...
ILRI graduate fellow Taishi Kayano, from Rakuno Gakuen University, collects milk samples from a Kenya dairy farmer as part of a scoping survey of aflatoxins in the feed-dairy chain in Kenya (photo...
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Towards professionalizing—not criminalizing—informal sellers of milk and meat...
Transporting fresh milk by motorcycle in Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Ben Lukuyu). ‘. . . Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partners have developed and piloted...
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‘Soft’ science at ILRAD/ILRI: A lively look back at three decades of...
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) marked its 40-year anniversary last year, 2014. One of the publications commissioned to celebrate that milestone is this new research report,...
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Fragments d’ILRI: Le plan directeur pour l’élevage en Ethiopie devrait aider...
Boy feeding his goats in Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Bruno Gerard). Cet article a été publié originellement en anglais sur ce site; traduit par Ewen Le Borgne. Il est loin le temps où le discours sur...
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Livestock and the Sustainable Development Goals
Livestock are central to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and directly relevant to most of them. The growing demand for livestock products in developing countries, driven by...
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Culture of the cow: Curds in the city—Better living through smallholder...
Milk cans in Karnal, India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Note: This is the third in a series of articles on ‘Curds and goats, lives and livelihoods— A dozen stories from northern and eastern...
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Building better brands and lives through peri-urban dairying and smart...
Milk cans and children stand in the doorway of a dairy cooperative outside Karnal, Haryana, India (photo credit: ILRI/Jules Mateo). Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles on ‘Curds and...
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‘One Health for the Real World’ (or, ‘real livestock for real global wellbeing’)
The four members of the organizing committee of the One Health for the Real World Symposium and key players in the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium: (left to right), James Wood,...
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High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition launches...
A High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) is the science-policy interface of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is, at the global level, the foremost...
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Improving food safety and human health through agricultural research: CGIAR...
Tanzanian boy with large jug of fresh milk (photo credit: East African Dairy Development project). A useful summary of the future plans of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and...
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Livestock for food security and nutrition—Committee on World Food Security...
Rachael Njeri has started growing forage strips on her farm in the Kenya’s Tana River watershed. The forage plants help prevent soil erosion and provide feed for her cattle (photo credit:...
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Tanzania livestock master plan projects the creation of nearly two million jobs
Faustina Akyoo is a dairy farmer in Tanga, Tanzania. Her five dairy cows are an important livelihood asset for her family (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). International humanitarian assistance has...
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Scaling up use of livestock technologies in Mali—progress of a Feed the...
The Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program is a three-year initiative (2016–2019) promoting inclusive growth of all the actors involved in adding value to the production and...
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Empowering ruminant livestock enterprises in Mali—A Feed the Future-ILRI project
A woman milks one of her goats in Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). The Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program is a three-year initiative (2016–2019) promoting...
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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors
ILRI senior livestock adviser Barry Shapiro (photo credit: ILRI). A new livestock sector analysis from the Ethiopia’s Livestock State Ministry (LSM) and Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MoLF) and...
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