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As a new round of bird flu hits China, livestock scientist advises to ‘panic...
At the chicken market in Xining, Lanzhou Province, China (photo on Flickr by Padmanaba01). By Matthew Davis The initial news reports were slim on details but the reaction was swift. There were at...
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Alliance meeting this week to battle global ‘goat plague’
The PPR virus, commonly known as goat plague, swept across southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya in 2008; Mohammed Noor lost 20 goats in the just one week and wondered how he would provide for his...
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New advances in the battle against a major disease threat to cattle and...
An 8-month old cloned Boran calf named Tumaini (meaning ‘hope’ in Kiswahili), on the left, is part of a long-term ILRI research project to develop cattle for Africa that are genetically resistant to...
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The livestock boom in India: Pathways to an increasingly profitable, pro-poor...
India, already the world’s biggest milk producer and beef exporter (mostly water buffalo), is investing in research to ensure that its poorest people reap increasing benefits from raising farm animals...
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ILRI PhotoBlog — ‘Livestock Portraits’: Sheko cattle in Ethiopia
Sheko calf kept in the Ghibe Valley of Southern Ethiopia (photo credit: Jim Richardson) The above photo, taken by National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson, is of a Sheko calf kept in the Ghibe...
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Livestock, climate and poverty: A short history of work begun to unravel the...
Farming in eastern Africa (photo on Flickr by CIAT/Neil Palmer). The story of human settlement and human evolution is very much tied to the fact that the earth’s climate has always been changing, and...
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ILRI’s global livestock research agenda: A strategy for ‘better lives through...
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, speaks about the past, present and future of ILRI at ILRI’s Annual Program Meeting 2013, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). Jimmy...
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Dialing back on the drivers of global disease outbreaks: A look inside the...
As published in PNAS 2013: 1208059110v1-201208059. Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change, by Delia Grace and others, May 2013. By Michelle Geis A new...
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Experts meet to share tactics in fight against ‘goat plague’: Filmed highlights
Watch this short (3:50 minutes) film on the views of participants at a recent meeting to coordinate research strategies for a disease of small ruminants known as peste des petits ruminants, or PPR....
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More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor: CGIAR research initiative...
A map showing the focus value chains and countries that are part of a CGIAR Program on Livestock and Fish (photo credit: ILRI) In the face of rising global demand for animal-source foods, leading...
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Dryland agriculture program launched for developing countries: Hot topic for...
A sandstorm on the western shore of Lake Baringo (photo on Flickr by UN/Ray Witlin). A new science program launched in Jordan last week—the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems—is setting itself...
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ILRI PhotoBlog —‘Livestock Still Lives’: Roof in Rajasthan
Stairs to the roof of a typical livestock-keeping household in the village of Nagar, in Tonk District, Rajasthan, India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). To receive alerts of new postings on this ILRI...
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More meat, milk and fish produced by and for the poor: A first review of a...
Lucy Lapar, an ILRI scientist, with a trader selling eggs in Hanoi, Vietnam. A CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish is working to help poor communities play a bigger role in feeding the...
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Three presentations on livestock for–and in–development by ILRI director...
Wherefore ILRI? from ILRI Here are three slide presentations recently made by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). (1) Wherefore ILRI?, presented at...
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Keepers of the flame: Women livestock keepers
Kenyan farmer Alica Waithira shares the responsibility for managing her farm with her family. Her brothers take on the lion’s share of growing food for the family and fodder for the livestock. Alica...
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ILRI’s capacity development priorities: Contribute your views
Graphic report of recent ILRI discussions on capacity development The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) envisions a world where all people have access to enough food and livelihood...
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Launching ILRI’s new long-term strategy for livestock research for...
Watch this 15-minute filmed presentation on ILRI’s new long-term strategy. Shirley Tarawali, director of institutional planning and partnerships at the International Livestock Research Institute...
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Spinning through the online media universe (geeky, social and otherwise)
Group picture of the participants, resource experts and facilitator (Peter Casier, middle of back row, both hands raised) of the first CGIAR Technical Online Communicators Workshop, 27–31 May 2013,...
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Climate change–Wholesale reconfiguration of diets, livelihoods, farming will...
A new report identifies ‘regret-free’ approaches for adapting agriculture to climate change. Amid fears of wasted investments and imprecise science, researchers are providing clarity on actions...
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Growing more food using fewer natural resources: Pipe dream or the ‘only’...
Banalata Das, a dairy and shrimp farmer, feeds her cow in Khulna, Bangladesh (photo credit: WorldFish/Mike Lusmore). Ramadjita Tabo, a member of The Montpellier Panel and deputy executive director of...
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