Livestock management



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Increasing capacity for knowledge-based smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia
26/01/12

This working paper by Tesfaye Lemma Tefera, Azage Tegegne and ...

ILRI updates structure and senior staff roles to tackle new challenges
25/01/12


Earlier this month, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) director general Jimmy Smith announced a number of organizational changes. We share th...

Turning defeat into new destiny – Going beyond food aid in the Horn of Africa
24/01/12


A massive die-off of livestock acr...

Putting a price on water: From Mt Kenya forests to Laikipia savannas to Dadaab drylands
19/01/12

A map of the Ewaso Ng’iro watershed catchment, taken from Mapping and Valuing Eco...

New training manuals for improving small-scale pig production: With lessons from northeastern India
18/01/12


Children of a smallholder pig-farming household in Mon Dist...

Market incentives–not top-down regulation–needed to help poor farmers take advantage of East Africa’s burgeoning pig industry
17/01/12


A family of pigs are at home on a section of over...

Beef production in crop–livestock systems
05/01/12

This new report from the ACIAR – the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research – argues that  the “improvement of production and...

Funders meet in Nairobi to align their vision and expectations for pro-poor biosciences research
19/12/11


Last week (13 Dec 2011), aid agencies that have funded Biosciences eastern and central Afr...

To insure or not to insure: That is the question for Kenyan herders restocking after the great drought of 2011
16/12/11


The first payouts for livestock insurance being made in Marsabit District, i...

NGO of ‘eat less meat’ mantra takes holistic view of livestock’s role in meeting global eco- and nutritional challenges
14/12/11


Ethiopian livestock-keeping family (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Ha...

Livestock Exchange guides ILRI’s research on livestock
12/12/11

On 9 and 10 November 2011, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Board of Trustees hosted a 2-day ‘liveSTOCK Exchang...

Capacity building helps Ethiopia’s pastoral women transform their impoverished, drought-ravaged communities
11/12/11



Borana girl (photo on Flickr by Gustavo Jeronimo).
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Angela Merkel at ILRI’s African biosciences labs: A photofilm memento
09/12/11


Lydia Wamalwa talks with German Chancellor (and former scientist) Angela Merkel at ILRI-BecA labs (...

Seminal and holistic review of the probable ‘futures’ of livestock production, food security and environmental protection
07/12/11

Watch the whole of this filmed slide presentation by ILRI’s Mario Herrero on ILRI’s film channel: The future of livestock in feeding the world (duration: 28 minutes, 25 Nov 2011).

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Livestock and human health – directions for ILRI
07/12/11

As part of a session on ‘livestock and human health’ at the recent ‘LiveSTOCK Exchange’ event, Brian Perry interviewed a panel of ILRI staff on future research in this area as part of the new CGIAR...

Tackling poultry diseases in Ethiopia
05/12/11

Developing countries such as Ethiopia have many indigenous chicken varieties which are well adapted to local environments as they are excellent foragers, better able to avoid predator attacks and d...

Obsession with a bull, and related matters
02/12/11


A Dinka cattle camp at sunset in Abyei, Sudan (phot...

Pioneering insurance for remote livestock herders taking hold in drought-prone areas of Kenya and Ethiopia
01/12/11


Sake Dabasso Halake with her recent livestock insurance payout,...

Livestock research for development in a complex, messy world: Carlos Seré reflects on a decade of work for ILRI
01/12/11


ILRI former director general Carlos Seré at an ILRI ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event...

Billions depend on livestock
01/12/11

The New Agriculturist’s Geneviève Renard recently interviewed ILRI Director General Jimmy Smith about the challenges facin...
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