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‘Livestock insurance project an excellent example of innovative risk...
Marjaana Sall, deputy head of delegation of the European Union to Kenya, Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, Mohammed Elmi, Kenya’s minister of state for development of northern Kenya and other...
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Roots and tubers to the fore: Cassava and sweet potato may improve dairy goat...
Harrison Rware, an ILRI researcher, listens to Sinayo Taigo, a farmer in Mvomero District, Tanzania during a review of 3-year work plans developed by women in a program that is setting up...
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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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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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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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‘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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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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ILRI 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...
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ILRI 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...
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