Dans le cadre du ‘LiveSTOCK Exchange’ organisé par l’ILRI, Mathieu Lesnoff du CIRAD discute des enjeux de la recherche liés à la demande croissante des produits animaux des pays du sud. Par rapport à l’approche « productiviste » classique des années passées (e.g. « une intervention – une réponse sur la production »), trois évolutions … Continue reading
Category Archives: Animal Production
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Canadian parliamentarians see how markets work for Ethiopian farmers
Members of the Canada-Africa Parliament Association on their visit to Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). On 10–11 October 2011, six members of the Canada-Africa Parliament Association (4 parliamentarians and 2 senators) visited Ethiopia. At the request of the Canadian Embassy, the CIDA-funded IPMS project at ILRI organized a field visit to Ada’a District—one of the project’s … Continue reading
Africa / Animal Production / Animal Products / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / Livestock / Markets
Livestock production and marketing in Ethiopia
Livestock is an important sub-sector within Ethiopia’s economy in terms of its contributions to both agricultural value-added and national GDP. Between 1995/96 and 2005/06, it averaged 24% of agricultural GDP and 11% of national GDP. At the household level, livestock are crucial to the lives of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, and smallholder farm households; they help to … Continue reading
Animal Production / Animal Products / Bangladesh / Cattle / Central Asia / China / Dairying / Goats / India / Pacific / Pakistan / Poultry / Pro-Poor Livestock / Small Ruminants / South Asia / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam
Livestock reduce poverty in Asia – Stories from IFAD
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
More livestock is climate change key…
Livestock are the best tool available to arrest the impact of environmental degradation on climate change, grazing management pioneer Allan Savory told Australians this week. Mr Savory, who gave the keynote address to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Bonn a fortnight ago, admits that his assessment is counter-intuitive and “extremely unpopular” when … Continue reading
Animal Frontiers: From fork to farm – the carbon footprint in animal agriculture
The inaugural issue of a new journal – Animal Frontiers‘ – has just been launched by the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS), the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), and the Canadian Society of Animal Science (CSAS). Each issue will consist of invited peer-reviewed articles that present several international perspectives on the status of … Continue reading
CSIRO research to reduce methane emissions from livestock
Australia’s CSIRO is undertaking an extensive research program focused on developing practical solutions for significantly reducing methane emissions from livestock such as sheep and cattle. Incorporating research at the cellular, animal, and landscape levels, it is working on three related projects: Microbiological research to understand methane production in the rumen and to develop biological methods for reducing this … Continue reading
Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to review progress in animal genetic resources
The Thirteenth Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will be held at FAO Headquarters in Rome from 18 – 22 July 2011. It will review progress made in the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources. The following agenda items / documents are of particular relevance … Continue reading
Animal Production / Asia / Film and video / ILRI / India / Livestock Systems / Markets / Pigs / Project / Research / South Asia
Living livestock research: Towards policies for people and pigs in northeast India
For the past several years, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has worked on a project to better livelihoods through improvement of livestock production and marketing in northeast India that is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In this 8-minute video, ILRI’s Pier-Paolo Ficarelli, a knowledge management specialist based in India, reports … Continue reading
Greenhouse gases in animal agriculture – Finding a balance between food production and emissions
The June 2011 special issue of Animal Feed Science and Technology is focused on ‘Greenhouse Gases in Animal Agriculture – Finding a Balance between Food and Emissions’. The special issues summarizes papers presented at the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in Animal Agriculture Conference in Banff (Alberta, Canada) in October of 2010. The conference had over 400 … Continue reading
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