Fisherwoman, by B Prabha, 1960 (via Blake Gopnik’s Daily Pic in the Daily Beast). Whether female scientists will want to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March may depend on how far they look back in time. Things have changed, and if you talk in terms of decades, there are considerable victories to cheer about. … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Event
Agriculture / BioInnovate / Biotechnology / East Africa / Event / ILRI / Innovation Systems / Research
Bio-Innovate’s next steps: Bio-Incubate, Bio-Communicate…
The first Bio Innovate regional scientific conference (25-27 February 2013) ended last week with a focus on next steps and ‘big actions’ to come. On the last day, participants worked on three different strands: Crop productivity improvement and climate change adaptation Environmental management technologies Innovation incubation and value addition. The groups pondered bottlenecks in the enabling … Continue reading »
Agriculture / BioInnovate / Burundi / East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / ILRI / Kenya / Rwanda / Tanzania / Uganda
‘Bio-economy’ of East Africa boosted by Bio-Innovate research program
Seyoum Leta, Bio-Innovate Program Manager, at the First Bio-Innovate Regional Scientific Conference at the United Nations Conference Centre, Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25–27 Feb 2013 (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). ‘Capacities in biosciences in various sectors are scarce and scattered in Africa, Bio-Innovate Program Manager Dr. Seyoum Leta said Monday in Addis Ababa at … Continue reading »
Towards competitive and sustainable world-class livestock sectors – Africa livestock stakeholders to meet in Kenya
The Kenya Livestock Producers Association (KLPA) in collaboration with East Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) and Eastern and Southern Africa Dairy Association (ESADA) and other partners in the livestock sector in Africa and beyond will meet up at the African Livestock Conference and Exhibition (ALiCE 2013) to be held on June 26th – 29th 2013 in … Continue reading »
Africa / Agriculture / BioInnovate / Biotechnology / East Africa / Event / Research
Bio-Innovate regional scientific conference to explore successes challenges in applying bioscience innovation in East Africa
Eastern Africa will be the focus of a transformational forum to harness the power of biosciences innovations later this month, when more than 120 scientists, policy makers, the private sector, donors, and other stakeholders gather at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the 1st Bio-Innovate Regional Scientific Conference at the United Nations Conference Centre, from 25-27 February … Continue reading »
Africa / Australia / BecA / Directorate / Event / Food security / ILRI / Nutrition (human) / PA / Presentation
Livestock for Africa’s food security: Sydney launch of Australian International Food Security Centre
Cattle in Africa (photo on Flickr by Jeff Haskins). Last November (2012), Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), took part in a conference, Food Security in Africa: Bridging Research and Practice, held in Sydney, Australia, to launch the Australian International Food Security Centre (AIFSC). At the conference, the AIFSC announced an … Continue reading »
Agriculture / Animal Production / Environment / Event / Livestock-Water / PLE / Water
How much water is in the meat on your plate? Livestock live talk at ILRI on 7 February 2013
What is a ‘water footprint’ and why does it matter? How does the ‘livestock water footprint’ differ between developing and developed countries? These are some of the questions that Arjen Hoekstra, a renowned professor in water management from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, will attempt to answer when he gives a ‘livestock live talk’ … Continue reading »
CRP37 / East Africa / Event / ILRI / Pigs / Poultry / Uganda / Value Chains
Researchers and graduate students from three American universities visit ILRI Uganda
A group of researchers and graduate students from Iowa State University, North Carolina State University and the University of Delaware, working on poultry genomics visited the ILRI Office in Kampala on 27 October 2012. The group was led by Dr. Max Rothschild, Director of the Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, and accompanied by Mr. Gideon … Continue reading »
Crop-Livestock / Directorate / Event / ILRI / India / Markets / PA / Partnerships / PPR / South Asia
Lessons from India’s smallholder dairy successes can help developing world–ILRI’s Jimmy Smith
On 4 Nov 2012, an ILRI delegation of 28 visited the village of Araipura, in the Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana, where they held discussions with dairy farm families. The ILRI management team and board of trustees also visited the National Dairy Research Institute. (Photo credit: ILRI) ‘Operation Flood in Gujarat is … Continue reading »
Agri-Health / CRP4 / Event / Research / Zoonotic Diseases
The deadly gifts of livestock: Livestock live talk at ILRI on 31 October 2012
On Wednesday 31 Octtober 2012, Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) gives a ‘livestock live talk’ on The deadly gifts of livestock at the ILRI campus in Nairobi. Grace’s presentation will focus on the socioeconomic and health impact of zoonoses (diseases transmitted between livestock and humans) … Continue reading »
