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‘Livestock Research for Africa’s Food Security’: Join us at our side event at...
Next week, staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and many other CGIAR centres and research programs are attending the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW6), which is...
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Dairy farming = ‘dairy education’: The sector that is educating Kenya’s...
This 3:25-minute film shares how keeping cows has enabled Margaret Muchina, a dairy farmer from central Kenya, to support and educate her four children, who include Edward Kimani, who sat for his high...
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‘Not by food alone’: Livestock research should be used to make a bigger...
Livestock matter to the livelihoods and ambitions of most people living in Africa and other developing regions of the world (image credit: ILRI/Rob O’Meara). Note: This post was developed by ILRI...
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Lindiwe Majele Sibanda and Monty Jones on closing the gaps in agricultural...
Note: This post was developed by ILRI corporate communications writer/editor Paul Karaimu. The second day of the ongoing (15-20 Jul 2013) sixth Africa Agriculture Science Week of the Forum for...
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Recycling Africa’s agro-industrial wastewaters: Innovative system is piloted...
A holding tank for recycling wastewater at Kampala City Abattoir (photo credit: ILRI/Albert Mwangi). Note: This post was developed by Bio-Innovate communications officer Albert Mwangi. A clamor to...
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NEPAD’s Ibrahim Mayaki makes the case for investing in Africa’s agricultural...
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki (photo credit: Africa Renewal / John Gillespie, via Wikimedia Commons). Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, chief executive officer the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)...
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With ‘new road’ for agricultural research, Africa can feed Africa—and will...
IFAD president Kanayo Nwanze (left) with ILRI director general Jimmy Smith at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW6), in Accra, Ghana, 15–20 Jul 2013, organized by the Forum for Agricultural...
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Empower local experts to inform agricultural policy in Africa: Short filmed...
One of the more interesting side events at this month’s sixth Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW6) hosted by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) in Accra, Ghana, 15–20 Jul 2013,...
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ILRI scientist honoured by Australian university for contributions to African...
ILRI’s Azage Tegegne is a recipient of the 2013 James Cook University Outstanding Alumni Award (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). Azage Tegegne, a senior scientist working with the International...
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Index-based livestock insurance pilot launches today in drought-prone...
Kenya: dead and dying animals in previous drought in Arbajahan, in northern Kenya’s Wajir County (photo credit: Brendan Cox / Oxfam). Today (Sat 10 Aug 2013), Takaful Insurance of Africa is launching...
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Enhanced cooperation focus of visit to ILRI by Ethiopian State Minister for...
Jimmy Smith, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) with Gebregziabher Gebreyohannes, State Minister for Livestock Development in the Ministry of Agriculture (photo...
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ILRI geneticist wins prestigious ‘BREAD Ideas Challenge’ award for innovative...
Fidalis Mujibi, a geneticist at ILRI, collecting information from a smallholder livestock farmer in Busia, Kenya. Mujibi is one of the winners of the 2013 ‘BREAD Ideas Challenge’ award for an idea to...
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Want ‘climate-smart’ farming adopted in Africa? Then better start collecting...
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, a scientist at ILRI, says data on emissions estimates from developed countries are inapplicable to Africa’s climatic and environmental conditions (photo credit: ILRI/Paul...
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Study 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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This 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...
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‘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...
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ILRI’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,...
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Short 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....
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Capacity 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...
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Radio 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...
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