Declan McKeever: ILRI and ILRAD lose a friend, with a personal tribute by...
Declan McKeever,a former scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and its predecessor, the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), brilliant...
View ArticleILRI films on research helping Africa’s small-scale livestock keepers better...
Watch the following playlist of climate change films produced by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). These films describe how climate change is affecting millions of poor livestock...
View ArticleStorming the ivory towers: Time for scientists to get out, ‘get social’, to...
An evaluative framework for assembling an evidence base on the impacts of social learning. Figure 1 in Social learning and sustainable development, article by Patti Kristjanson, Blane Harvey, Marissa...
View ArticleHappy New Year! 20 top posts on ILRI News Blog in 2013
Improved goat shelter (illustration by ILRI/Birgit Boogaard). Thanks for your readership of, and participation in, ILRI’s News Blog in 2013. Before jumping full tilt into 2014, you might want to check...
View ArticleFurther unlocking the potential of maize: Dual-purpose is the new purpose of...
Maize field at Kampi ya Moto, Kenya (photo on Flickr by C Schubert/CCAFS). A September 2013 special issue of the scientific journal Field Crops Research describes research to improve, and make wider...
View ArticleReducing aflatoxins in Kenya’s food chains: Filmed highlights from an ILRI...
Last month (14 Nov 2013), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a roundtable briefing/discussion for science journalists in Nairobi to highlight on-going multi-institutional...
View ArticleWorld’s largest agricultural research partnership, serving 1 billion poor,...
Tanzanian Maasai help vaccinate their calves against lethal East Coast fever (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). CGIAR has doubled its funding in the last five years, from $500 million (in 2008) to $1...
View ArticleAs livestock eat, so they emit: Highly variable diets drive highly variable...
Cattle being watered in Ethiopia’s Ghibe Valley (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The most detailed livestock analysis to date, published yesterday, shows vast differences in animal diets and...
View ArticleBuilding capacity for better conservation and use of Africa’s animal genetic...
Jeremy Ouedraogo, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, Burkina Faso By Diana Brandes-van Dorresteijn Jeremy Ouedraogo, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries in Burkina Faso,...
View ArticleGender equity + capacity development: Marriage proposal in the CGIAR Research...
If discussions at a recent research for development meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are to be believed, transformations are afoot at the intersection of gender equity and capacity development work...
View ArticleWomen smart: Improving ‘gendered’ tools for assessing the impacts of...
ILRI agricultural economist Jo Cadilhon (seated right), from France, holds an Indian-style world café to elicit ideas from gender experts for an assessment he is conducting of a women’s dairy...
View ArticleFighting aflatoxins: CGIAR scientists Delia Grace and John McDermott describe...
In this 6-minute film, two leading scientists combatting aflatoxins in the food chains of developing countries describe some of the risks these toxins pose and new options for their better control....
View ArticleILRI deputy director-general of research at World Bank summit makes (serious,...
Livestock herding in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Two major recent World Bank agricultural summits in Mauritania and Senegal recently urged African countries and communities in the Sahel...
View ArticleRadio still reaches most Kenyan farmers—but agricultural information still...
Most Kenyan farmers listen to the radio to learn how to farm better but are not receiving the information they need (photo credit: Flickr/Internews Network). Radio is still the dominant media channel...
View ArticleCapacity development is ‘back’: Reframing and repositioning an ‘orphaned’...
Javier Ekboir, of the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) initiative, hosted by Bioversity International, and Nicole Lefore, of the International Water Management Institute IWMI), listen to...
View ArticleShort filmed interviews of researchers and practitioners in livestock and...
Watch two short video interviews made on the sidelines of a recent three-day AgriFood Chain Toolkit Conference-Livestock and Fish Value Chains in East Africa, held 9–11 Sep 2013 in Kampala, Uganda....
View ArticleILRI’s Jimmy Smith on global health and food security: Why developing-country...
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) gave a keynote presentation this morning (17 Oct 2013) at the opening of the Global Animal Health Conference,...
View Article‘The health of the poor is the wealth of the poor’: A little film for a big...
To honour World Food Day today, celebrated every year on 16 Oct in honour of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on this date in 1945, the International...
View ArticleThis year’s Yara Prize honours hard-hitting and long-term policy advocacy by...
Co-winners of the Yara Prize for 2013, announced last night (4 Sep 2013) are Nigerian Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu (left) and Zimbabwean Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, chair of ILRI’s board of trustees (picture...
View ArticleStudy finds Vietnam has low awareness of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease...
A three-year study by ILRI and partners shows that farmers in Vietnam have low awareness of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that infects animals (including pigs) and humans (photo credit:...
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