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Human health risks at the animal-human interface: As Asia’s populations and...
Another presentation made by staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) at the Asia Regional Livestock Policy Forum held in Bangkok last year (16–17 Aug 2012) (see previous posts...
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The ‘cream’ from more efficient dairying: Kenya to pilot scheme to pay...
One of three objectives of the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development. Its Third Multi-Stakeholder Platform Meeting was co-hosted in Nairobi, Kenya, by ILRI,...
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New leadership in ILRI’s livestock research-for-development work in Asia
ILRI’s new regional representative for East and Southeast Asia Steve Staal (picture credit: ILRI). Steve Staal has been appointed the new regional representative of the International Livestock...
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Better grass for better smallholder dairying in East Africa
The Tuft of Grass Minor, watercolour by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1521) (image via Wikipaintings). An impact case study on Getting superior Napier grass to dairy farmers in East Africa was published on 1...
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ILRI PhotoBlog —‘Livestock Cultures’: ‘Oxen in Repose’ by John Singer Sargent
Oxen in repose, 1910, watercolour by John Singer Sargent (via WikiPaintings). To receive alerts of new postings on this ILRI News Blog, including livestock-related artworks like the one above...
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WILD: Take a look at famous artworks depicting ‘Women in Livestock Development’
Section of an ILRI Pinterest page depicting artwork of women in livestock development; created to celebrate International Women’s Day, 8 Mar 2013 (illustration credit: ILRI). Go to this board on the...
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Boosting pig production among India’s poor: Tata-ILRI research partnership...
A pig farmer in Nagaland, India. A Tata-ILRI partnership is helping Indian farmers beat classical swine fever to boost pig production (photo credit: ILRI/Ram Deka). A program that is supporting rural...
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ILRI PhotoBlog —‘Livestock Portraits’: Pig in northern Vietnam
A pig kept by smallholder farmer Mai Thi Puong, near Meo Vac, in northern Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). To receive alerts of new postings on this ILRI News Blog, including...
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Climate change and agricultural experts gather in California this week to...
Silhouette of a peasant woman digging carrots, by Vincent van Gogh, 1885, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (via WikiPaintings). Experts working at the interface of climate change and...
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The world’s ‘wicked problems’ need wickedly good solutions: Social learning...
Five-minute animated video produced for a Climate Change and Social Learning (CCSL) initiative of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). CCAFS scientists...
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Agricultural research, climate change and ‘social learning’: How did we get...
‘Southern Gardens’ by Paul Klee, 1921 (via WikiPaintings). An ongoing CGIAR group meeting in Bodega Bay, California, (18–19 Mar 2013) is looking at untapped potential in CGIAR and beyond for actors of...
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Lowering the ‘water footprint’ of livestock products
A smallholder livestock farm in Dak Nong Province, Vietnam. Animals raised in mixed systems have a much lower water footprint on surface and groundwater bodies than those in industrialized farming...
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Cultivate the future! How learning together can mean learning better and...
If you missed it earlier this month, watch this animated 5-min video on what can help agricultural research by CGIAR and others ‘go to scale’. Below is the full transcript of the video, which public...
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ILRI PhotoBlog–’Livestock Cultures’: ‘Eggs’ by Andy Warhol
Eggs, 1982, by Andy Warhol (via WikiPaintings). Happy Easter! To view ILRI poultry photographs, visit ILRI’s Poultry set on Flickr. To receive alerts of new postings on this ILRI News Blog, including...
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Livestock dairy scientist and former director general of ILCA John Walsh: An...
Former directors general of the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), a predecessor of ILRI, John Walsh (left), who passed away in Ireland at the end of Jan 2013, and Hank Fitzhugh (right)...
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Livestock, poverty and the environment: A balancing act–and a balanced account
Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide meat consumption that occurs there (map by Worldmapper). Meat consumption per person is highest in Western Europe, with nine of the top ten...
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Livestock ‘goods’ and ‘bads’: What are the published facts?
‘Study for Composition VIII (The Cow)’, by Theo van Doesburg, c.1918, via WikiPaintings. Yesterday’s post on this ILRI News Blog, Livestock, poverty and the environment: A balancing act and a balanced...
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ILRI PhotoBlog —‘Livestock Still Lives’: Indian farmhouse cookware / baskets
Farmhouse cookware (left) and basket plastered for storing grain (right) in Kothera Village, Gangolihat, in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand (picture credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). To receive...
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The spatial ecology of pigs: Where free-range doesn’t come free
A report on the economic as well as health risks of keeping free-range pigs in western Kenya has been published by scientists in the animal health laboratories at ILRI’s Nairobi, Kenya, campus; here,...
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Action learning, systemic change and sustainability, desired legacy of an...
Kemeria Hussien, a young woman at a milk market in Meisso District, West Hararghe Zone, Ethiopia, 2011 (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). On 28 March 2013, a team from the project ‘Improving...
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