Draconian bans on urban livestock in developing countries ‘not the answer’–Guardian on ILRI report

Posted on 15 Oct 2012 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Mark Tran in the Guardian‘s Poverty Matters Blog warns us this week not to keep chickens under our beds. On the other hand, he infers, chicken bought on the street in poor countries may be safer to eat than that from … Continue reading »

Agriculture / Bangladesh / Dairying / East Africa / India / Kenya / South Asia / Value Chains

Scaling sustainable and equitable agri-food and livestock value chains

Posted on 22 Mar 2012 by Peter Ballantyne • Leave a comment

In April 2012, the ‘Seas of Change’ international learning workshop will be held in the Netherlands.To help guide the workshop, the organizers of the initiative have collated a number of case studies pointing to successes in scaling inclusive agri-food market development. Several livestock and dairy examples are included in the case studies: Bangladesh, dairy and livestock … Continue reading »

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Climate models need to shift focus from global to regional

Posted on 14 Mar 2012 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

(Picture on Flickr by Zoriah.) A new report focusing on eastern and western Africa and the South Asian Indo-Gangetic Plains, which span parts of Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, on the ability of global climate models to predict regional climate events such as monsoon rains and temperatures—and found mixed results. ‘The models have a reasonable capability in … Continue reading »

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Livestock reduce poverty in Asia – Stories from IFAD

Posted on 19 Aug 2011 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

TagCloud from the International Fund for Agricultural Research (image credit: IFAD). An Asia and Pacific newsletter published by the International Fund for Agricultural Research (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations that works to eradicate poverty and hunger in developing countries, has published a new edition, on the topic of livestock. IFAD projects supporting poultry … Continue reading »

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Backyard poultry keeping and poverty reduction in South Asia: Good practices and good returns

Posted on 21 Jul 2011 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A chicken forages beneath a farm cart in Brahampur (Arwa Village), in West Bengal, India, near drying patties of cow dung that will be used as cooking fuel (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). A South Asia Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Programme, a joint initiative of the National Dairy Development Board of India and the United Nations Food and … Continue reading »

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Animal surveillance needed to stop bird flu and other human epidemics–World Bank

Posted on 11 Mar 2011 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

ILRI has worked with Indonesia to control bird flu using participatory disease surveillance and control approaches (photo credit: ILRI/Jost). The World Bank this week reports that since the beginning of this year, the H5N1 bird flu virus has re-emerged, killing people in Egypt and across Asia. Experts say we need to invest in stronger human … Continue reading »

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Women in agriculture–hungry countries are ‘gender unequal’ countries

Posted on 7 Mar 2011 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Women taking goods to market (photo credit: ILRI/Kebede). The New Agriculturist this month provides a snapshot of views about where we are in gender research for agricultural development. Journalist Olivia Schwier collected these viewpoints at a ‘Gender and Market-Oriented Agriculture’ workshop held 31 January—2 February 2011 in Addis Ababa. Lessons from case studies in gender work … Continue reading »

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ILRI calls for steps to conserve the animal genetic resources of developing countries

Posted on 4 Dec 2010 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

‘The International Livestock Research Institute is calling for immediate, practical steps to preserve developing countries’ dwindling animal genetic diversity. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization says almost 10 percent of the world’s livestock breeds have become extinct in the last six years. Twenty percent of the 7,616 breeds documented in the FAO’s Global Databank … Continue reading »

Animal Production / Asia / Bangladesh / Dairying / Livestock / South Asia

Using cows to pull Bangladeshi farmers out of poverty

Posted on 18 Aug 2010 by Peter Ballantyne • Leave a comment

More than 115 million Bangladeshis live in rural villages. Those villagers don’t have much, but many do own a cow. In fact, Bangladesh has the third-largest cattle population in Asia (and the 12th-largest in the world). In theory, those bovines were the most valuable and profitable asset that poor Bangladeshis owned. The problem was that … Continue reading »

Bangladesh / Dairying / MarketOpps / Nutrition (human) / PA / South Asia

Dairy conglomerate Danone’s yoghurt factory for the poor in Bangladesh

Posted on 14 Aug 2010 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Here is an old (July 2009) news item we missed. The dairy conglomerate Danone built a small factory in Bangladesh to make nutritional yogurt for the poor. Danone’s yogurt brand in Bangladesh is called Shoktidoi, which means energy in Bengali. ‘When French dairy food firm Danone ventured outside the troubled business climate of Europe and the … Continue reading »

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