Snapshot of Somalia: A country dominated by livestock and livestock peoples

Posted on 4 Aug 2011 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A Somali nomad with his camel on the way to the deep-sea commercial seaport of Berbera, in the Gulf of Aden, in the north, where live sheep, camels and other livestock are exported to the Gulf states (photo on Flickr by Charles Fred). The information below is from the website of Vétérinaires sans Frontières-Germany. ‘Somalia has been … Continue reading »

Africa / Animal Breeding / Animal Production / Cattle / Dairying / Ethiopia / ILRI / Indigenous Breeds / IPMS / Livestock

Breeding strategy to improve Ethiopian Boran cattle for meat and milk production

Posted on 9 Mar 2011 by Zerihun Sewunet • Leave a comment

This working paper by Aynalem Haile, Workneh Ayalew, Noah Kebede, Tadelle Dessie, and Azage Tegegne on Breeding strategy to improve Ethiopian Boran cattle for meat and milk production was released on 3 February, 2011. This working paper is prepared to develop breeding plans for the Ethiopian Boran cattle and is based on: 1) secondary data … Continue reading »

Environment / Livestock Systems / Consumption / PA / Animal Production

Is eating meat actually good for the planet?

Posted on 21 Oct 2010 by Susan MacMillan • 2 Comments

A young girl carries a slab of beef amongst traders in Goro town, Ethiopia, on market day. (Photo credit: ILRI/Mann) ‘The modest proposal may sound heretical to many eco-conscious eaters, but eating meat may actually be good for the planet after all. In his new book, Meat: A Benign Extravagance, Simon Fairlie aims to debunk … Continue reading »

Animal Feeding / Environment / Farming Systems / Livestock Systems / PA

It’s not the livestock–it’s the farming model–that needs changing

Posted on 16 Sep 2010 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A cow in India eats the wastes of crop production after the grain has been harvested (photo by ILRI / Mann). In a new book, Meat: A Benign Extravagance, Simon Fairlie shows we should not be arguing against all meat eating, but against the current farming model. Fairlie, says Guardian writer George Monbiot, ’demonstrates that … Continue reading »

Africa / Agriculture / Asia / Climate Change / CRP7 / Dairying / Environment / Food security / ILRI / Latin America / Livestock / LivestockFutures / PA / PLE

Tropical farming the climate-friendly way

Posted on 14 Sep 2010 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Changing tropical farming methods could cut emissions of methane and carbon dioxide by up to 417 Mt of carbon dioxide-equivalent by 2030, around 12% of livestock-related worldwide emissions of the greenhouse gases. That’s according to a team from Copenhagen and Kenya, who believe that the most likely levels of emissions cuts could be worth $1.3 … Continue reading »

Africa / Agriculture / Cattle / Crop-Livestock / East Africa / Food security / Kenya

NFU helping the under privileged

Posted on 25 Aug 2010 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Food security in Western Kenya has been given a massive boost following fundraising from the NFU and the rest of the agriculture industry. The £200,000 raised from the Africa 100 Appeal is now supporting a new project which is benefitting over 12,000 people. The cash is helping farmers to grow stronger, disease-free crops of cassava, … Continue reading »

Food Safety / Food security / Research

Artificial meat? Food for thought by 2050

Posted on 16 Aug 2010 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Leading scientists say meat grown in vats may be necessary to feed 9 billion people expected to be alive by middle of century Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the … Continue reading »

Animal Production / Livestock Systems / North America / PA / Pigs / Poultry / USA

Large-scale American livestock farmers and animal rights activists agree to compromise

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

‘Concessions by farmers in this state [Ohio] to sharply restrict the close confinement of hens, hogs and veal calves are the latest sign that so-called factory farming — a staple of modern agriculture that is seen by critics as inhumane and a threat to the environment and health — is on the verge of significant … Continue reading »

Ethiopia / Nutrition (human) / PA

Why old (carnivory) habits die hard: Stone-tool butchery may be a 3.8-million-year-old affair

Posted on 13 Aug 2010 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Reconstructed model of what Lucy looked like, from ‘Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia’, Houston Museum of Natural Science, July 2009 (photo by Trish Mayo) If something new is always coming out of Africa, something old is always coming out of the Middle Awash, a (once wet, now desiccated) region of the Great Rift … Continue reading »

Animal Products / Asia / Livestock / Malaysia / Markets / Southeast Asia

To attain self-sufficiency in meat, Malaysia needs to rein in the cost

Posted on 3 Jun 2010 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

The creation of many more “beef valleys” nationwide can be seen as the right step toward attaining self-sufficiency for meat. However, while waiting for the beef valley projects to fully take off, Malaysia’s self-sufficiency for both beef and mutton meat are still alarmingly low, at about 25% and 10% respectively. Read more … (The Star) Continue reading »

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