Sheep and goats in northern Kenya (photo on Flickr by gordontour). ‘The Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (IBAR) is asking the [Kenya] Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MALF) to reserve at least five per cent of the estimated funds its set to receive from the Treasury for the Department of Livestock. ‘These figures translate … Continue reading »
Tag Archives: Business Daily (Kenya)
Africa / Agriculture / Climate Change / Food security / Opinion piece / PA / Rwanda
Can smallholder farmers take a leading role in addressing the twin challenges of food security and environmental sustainability?
A farmer in Himachal Pradesh, India. Smallholder farmers can contribute to the search for climate solutions (photo credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT). Paul Kagame, the president of the Republic of Rwanda, says experience from that country shows that smallholder farmers can contribute to the search for climate-smart solutions and climate talks should bring smallholder agriculture into the … Continue reading »
Drought / East Africa / ILRI / Kenya / PA / Pastoralism / PLE / Vulnerability / Wildlife
Maasai livestock herders in Kenya paid to conserve the wildlife that share their rangelands
Nairobi cityscape in the background of Nairobi National Park (photo on Flickr by Luigi Guarino). ‘As pastoralists in the North Rift grapple with the drought that has affected more than 12 million East Africans, a new model to pay the residents for conserving the ecosystem in reserves and parks is helping them to diversify income … Continue reading »
Agri-Health / Animal Diseases / Biotech / CRP4 / Diagnostics / Disease Control / East Africa / Epidemiology / Event / Health (human) / ILRI / Kenya / Middle East / PA / RVF / Trade / Zoonotic Diseases
Kenya forges new pact with Horn and Middle East in old war against deadly Rift Valley fever
The pathogenesis of Rift Valley fever. Viruses 2011, 3(5), 493-519; doi:10.3390/v3050493 (image credit: A J Cann’s Flickr photostream). Kenya’s Business Daily newspaper reports that Kenya is forging a new pact in an old war against the deadly mosquito-transmitted ‘zoonotic’—human plus livestock—disease called Rift Valley fever. ‘Kenya has partnered with neighbouring stats to boost surveillance on Rift Valley … Continue reading »
Africa / Agriculture / BecA / BioInnovate / Biotechnology / Burundi / Central Africa / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / PA / Rwanda / Tanzania / Uganda
Swedish-funded Bio-Innovate Program tackling 6 ‘orphan’ food crops of East Africa
Portrait of Joyce Ledson, a farmer growing four ‘orphan’ food crops of the poor—beans, cassava, potato and sweet potato—as well as the ubiquitous maize, in Malawi (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). ‘. . . Six orphan crops chosen for a five-year programme called Bio-resources Innovation Network for Eastern Africa Development (Bio Innovate) are sorghum, millet, cassava, sweet … Continue reading »
Agriculture / Drought / East Africa / ILRI / Insurance / Kenya / PLE / Rwanda
Index insurance pushes farmers closer to cover
The development of the financial services sector is emerging as potential boon to agriculture in East Africa, with up to 40,000 farmers in Kenya and Rwanda set to gain from a new insurance scheme targeting losses to bad weather. The scheme comes at a time when Kenya is recovering from a prolonged drought in 2009 … Continue reading »
