This month’s issue of ‘Livestock Matter(s)’, explores a round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from ILRI and its partners. Download a print version – or sign up to get Livestock Matter(s) in your mailbox each month. Corporate news Livestock research for food security and poverty reduction: ILRI strategy 2013-2022 In April, ILRI’s strategy covering the period … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Livestock
Agriculture / Capacity Strengthening / CRP37 / Gambia / Guinea / Innovation Systems / Livestock / Mali / Senegal / West Africa
ILRI publie un guide pour l’animation, le suivi et l’évaluation des plateformes d’innovation pour la gestion du bétail endémique
Un manuel intitulé les «Directives pour les plateformes d’Innovation: Facilitation, suivi et evaluation» a été publié par l’Institut international de recherche sur le bétail (ILRI) en mars 2013, en français comme en anglais. Ce manuel est le fruit du travail de Pamela Pali et Kees Swaans, en collaboration avec Jemimah Njuki, Ranjitha Puskur, Abdou Fall, Nancy Johnson, Ndèye Djigal et … Continue reading »
Agriculture / Capacity Strengthening / CRP37 / Gambia / Guinea / Indigenous Breeds / Innovation Systems / Livestock / Mali / Senegal / West Africa
Innovation platform facilitation and assessment the focus of guidelines from ILRI
A manual by Pamela Pali and Kees Swaans on ‘Guidelines for innovation platforms: Facilitation, monitoring and evaluation’ was recently published by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Innovation platforms have recently gained ground as a mechanism to help stimulate and support multi stakeholder collaboration in agricultural research for development. Generally, they are a mechanism to enhance communication … Continue reading »
Animal Production / Cattle / CRP5 / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Nile Basin / Pastoralism / PLE / Uganda
Corralling cattle to improve the productivity of pasture lands affected by termites
Researchers from the Department of Animal Science in Makerere University were excited, and with good reason, as they surveyed pasture land that had been corralled off in Nakosongala in the cattle corridor of Uganda. The team had been looking at options to improve livestock water productivity (LWP) in the Nile Basin. To their surprise, a … Continue reading »
Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’roundup’, March 2013
This March 2013 issue of ‘Livestock Matter(s)’, gives a round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from ILRI and its partners. Download a print version – or sign up to get Livestock Matter(s) in your mailbox each month. Project news Dairy hubs giving Tanzanians better access to services given funding boost ‘Ireland’s minister of state for development … Continue reading »
Agriculture / Animal Production / Capacity Strengthening / Crop-Livestock / CRP12 / CRP37 / East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / Extension / Innovation Systems / Intensification / IPMS / Livestock / Markets / Research / Value Chains
Commodities, innovation and action research in Ethiopia: Livestock live talk at ILRI on 27 March 2013
The Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers project is coming to an end. IPMS aimed to transform agricultural productivity and rural development in Ethiopia through market-oriented agricultural development. Project staff worked with the Ethiopian Government to try new and innovative approaches and technologies. The team worked to achieve this objective through four main … Continue reading »
Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’roundup’, February 2013
We hope you enjoyed our first issue of Livestock Matter(s), a monthly round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from ILRI and its partners. Produced on the first of each month, this round-up highlights what you may have missed. You can download a print version – or sign up to get Livestock Matter(s) in your mailbox … Continue reading »
Africa / Animal Breeding / Animal Production / Biodiversity / Books and chapters / Cattle / Countries / CRP37 / Goats / Guinea / ILRI / Livestock / Mali / Research / Sheep / West Africa
Management of globally significant endemic ruminant livestock in Guinea and Mali
Although livestock play a central role in rural development in West Africa, traditional livestock systems are in general characterized by high mortality rates, low reproductive rates and low offtake rates. Furthermore, the presence of trypanosome-infected tsetse flies in the subhumid and humid areas seriously holds back the potential for livestock production. The region’s endemic ruminant … Continue reading »
Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’roundup’, January 2013
Welcome to the first issue of Livestock Matter(s), a monthly round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from the International Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners. We aim to produce this on the first of each month. It will bring together some of the news and updates you may have missed. … Continue reading »
Animal production and global food security: Livelihoods for poor owners and food for rich consumers
The January 2013 issue of Animal Frontiers looks at the contribution of animal production to global food security. The first of two special issues edited by Maggie Gill, this issue “takes a high-level perspective, exploring the relationship between people and animals (including fish) in developing countries, through trade and particularly in terms of nutrition.” Articles … Continue reading »
