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Zoonoses: The lethal gifts of livestock–Part 3 of ILRI ‘livestock live talk’...
Zoonoses: The lethal gifts of livestock from ILRI View this ILRI slide presentation, which is a ‘slidecast’ that includes an audio file of a ‘livestock live talk’ given by veterinary epidemiologist...
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New research program for humid tropics to boost world food production while...
A guinea pig keeper in the North Kivu Province of DR Congo (photo credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT). Humidtropics, a major new research-for-development program launched today, aims at increasing average farm...
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Fewer, better fed, farm animals: Good for the world’s climate and the world’s...
Livestock mitigation- Mario Herrero – Nov 2012 from CCAFS | CGIAR program – Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security ‘Fewer but better fed animals can make livestock production more efficient.’...
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Zimbabwean beef farmer, livestock scientist and agricultural policy thinker...
Trained animal scientist and practicing commercial beef cattle farmer Lindiwe Sibanda, who for years has been one of the most influential thinkers in agriculture, food security and climate change...
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In search of ‘the wild chicken’: ILRI and other geneticists unravel the past...
ILRI and other geneticists are closing in on ‘the wild chicken’ that became the world’s favoured barnyard (all illustrations on this page on Flickr by Susan von Struensee, Art and Agriculture Series...
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New vaccine launched today to protect Kenyan cattle against East Coast fever
Mrs Kivuti and her dairy cow in Kenya (on Flickr by Jeff Haskins). Today is a red-letter day for livestock keepers in Kenya. A vaccine is being launched by the Kenya Department of Veterinary Services...
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A fine ‘balancing act’ will be needed to guide smallholder livestock...
Livestock and global change: Towards a sustainable and equitable livestock sector from ILRI With about 17 billion domestic animals in the world, with most of them raised on small mixed...
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Cows in the cloud: Kenyans are registering their cows, and increasing their...
Award-winning Kenyan agricultural entrepreneur Su Kahumbu (photo on Flickr by afromusing). On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Kenyan social entrepreneur Su Kahumbu gave ILRI’s fourth ‘livestock live talk’ seminar,...
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Pastoral livestock development in the Horn: Where the centre cannot (should...
Who eats better, pastoral children in mobile herding or settled communities? (answer: mobile). Which kind of tropical lands are among those most at risk of being grabbed by outsiders for development?...
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A few of our favourite (missed) livestock presentations in 2012
Here, for your New Year’s reading/viewing pleasure, are 20 slide presentations on 12 topics made by staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in 2012 that we missed reporting on...
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Livestock livelihoods for the poor: Beyond milk, meat and eggs
Kenya farm boy drinking milk (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). The science journal Animal Frontiers this month (Jan 2013) focuses on the links between livestock production and food security. Maggie...
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Experts take up two new director positions at ILRI, world’s leading pro-poor...
ILRI’s new deputy director of research in integrated systems John McIntire. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) last November appointed two new deputy director generals of research...
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Fixing fodder shortages for DAIRY in East Africa & South Asia, BEEF in West...
Fodder cut and ready for transporting in northern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). In 2012, a group of researchers at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) worked with...
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BecA-ILRI biosciences Hub in Nairobi receives grant from global life science...
ILRI technician Cecilia Muriuki prepares protein samples in one of ILRI’s animal health laboratories (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Global life science tools company Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN)...
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Ethiopian farmers to get market boost: New project to help livestock and...
A new research for development project was launched today by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), both members of the CGIAR...
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Greening the livestock sector: ‘Game changers’ for environmental, social,...
Jimmy Smith (centre), director general of ILRI, with participants at the 3rd Multi-stakeholder Platform Meeting of the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development,...
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Taking the long livestock view
Taking the long livestock view, slide presentation by ILRI director general Jimmy Smith. View this slide presentation, Taking the Long Livestock View, made by Jimmy Smith, director general of the...
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The catch in making livestock more efficient: How to work together towards ‘a...
Some of the participants at the on-going third multi-stakeholder platform meeting of the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Development taking place in Nairobi 22-24 Jan 2013...
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Animal-to-human diseases: From panic to planning–new recommendations for...
Map by ILRI, published in an ILRI report to the UK Department for International Development (DFID): Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012. The UK’s Institute for Development Studies...
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‘Health is not the absence of disease (and too important to be left to...
Minoan bronze bull and bull leaper, from Crete, around 1500 BC (image on Flickr by Ann Wuyts). Increasing livestock production to meet rapidly growing demands in a socially equitable and ecologically...
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