Clik here to view.
CTA-ILRI African dairy value chain seminar closes with colourful results
An improved, crossbred, dairy cow made available in Rwanda by an East African Dairy Development project (picture credit: ILRI/EADD). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This week ILRI hosts a major conference in Nairobi on livestock-based options...
On Wednesday 1 Oct 2014, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) will host a high-profile conference in Nairobi on livestock-based options for sustainable development. In 2014, to mark...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ILRI researchers test communication approaches for optimizing informed...
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) aims to employ the highest standards in its research, including the ways it engages with partners and stakeholders. The institutional research...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Humidtropics program launches research-for-development platform in Ethiopia
National-level members of the Humidtropics research-for-development platform (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). Written by Zelalem Lema, research officer, innovation systems at ILRI and Dorine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fighting fire with fire: New study shows co-parasitic infections of cattle...
A Boran calf and girl in eastern Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). A new study of the cattle killer East Coast fever finds a protective process that may also be at work in human malaria:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IGAD’s Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and Great Lakes region member states sign...
Horn of Africa from Space (via Planet Earth.ca). The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an eight-country trade bloc in Africa including governments from the Horn of Africa, the Nile...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kenya’s native goats and sheep, expertly crossbred, are key to helping...
Sustainable small ruminant breeding is helping Kenyan farmers cope with climate change (photo credit: Solomon Kilungu/CCAFS). By Julie Ojango (ILRI) and Vivian Atakos (CCAFS) Smallholder farmers and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK chief scientific adviser visits Kenya: Part 2—’One Health’ surveillance of...
Eric Fèvre gives Sir Mark Walport, UK chief scientific adviser, an overview of his UK-Kenya livestock and human health projects (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). One-Health approaches to battling...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK chief scientific adviser visits Kenya: Part 3—The dual rise of the global...
Tim Robinson gives Sir Mark Walport, UK chief scientific adviser, an overview of current research on the role of livestock production systems in antimicrobial resistance (photo credit: ILRI/Susan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK chief scientific adviser visits Kenya: Part 4—Development of a...
Joerg Jores (right) gives Sir Mark Walport, UK chief scientific adviser, an overview of work to develop a field-friendly diagnostic test for Middle East respiratory syndrome (photo credit: ILRI/Paul...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Designing practical ways to help the urban poor make choices that improve...
Paula Dominguez-Salas, above, is a post-doctoral scientist of ILRI and the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) researching gender and nutrition issues in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New study recommends continued research on the possible role pigs could play...
The map above shows high-risk areas due to a spatial overlap of three proposed risk factors for zoonotic Ebola virus transmission in Uganda: modelled zoonotic niche, domestic pig distribution and high...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aflatoxin levels in cow milk and feed in the Addis Ababa milk shed—New study
Ethiopian farmer with fresh milk from her cow (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). This article is written by ILRI scientists Dawit Gizachew, Barbara Szonyi, Azage Tegegne, Jean Hanson and Delia Grace...
View ArticleClik here to view.
High-level German delegation visits ILRI for updates on CGIAR livestock and...
Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, giving a presentation during the visit (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Earlier this week (16 Nov 2015) a delegation from the German Federal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Roots, tubers and banana plants: Next-generation pig feeds for Uganda
Pigs (photo credit: N Palmer/CIAT). The demand for animal source foods in Uganda is rising as the country’s population continues to grow alongside improved income and urbanization. Pork in particular...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Kenya value chains program to lift 300,000 plus households out of poverty
The new program focuses on the livestock, dairy, staple crops root crops and staple drought-tolerant crops value chains (photo credit: S. Kilungu-CCAFS). Starting in October 2015, the International...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Towards more productive dairy cattle for Africa’s smallholders
Dairy cow in Tanga, Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Improving the genetic makeup of Africa’s dairy cattle has the potential increase farmer productivity and profitability, hence transform...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tanzania’s ‘Livestock Master Plan’ kicks off with a one-year training program...
Amos Omore and livestock on a dairy farm in Ubiri village, Lushoto, Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Nils Teufel). This article is written by Mercy Becon, communications officer for ILRI in Tanzania....
View ArticleClik here to view.
High-level EC-IFAD delegation tours smallholder pig projects in Uganda
Simon Lubega (left), manager of the Wambizzi Pig Cooperative Abattoir, in Uganda, in discussion with the EC’s Roberto Ridolfi (right) and other stakeholders during a tour of his biogas plant (photo...
View Article
