Category Archives: Capacity Strengthening

Africa / Agriculture / Asia / Capacity Strengthening / Farming Systems / Fish / Food Security / Innovation Systems / Knowledge and Information / Latin America / Livelihoods / Women

‘Give a woman a fish and she eats for a day, teach her to fish and she eats her for a lifetime’ goes the proverb (sort of); but give her access to markets and she earns a living, and give her community resources to fish sustainably and she can feed the world

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Demetria Solomon, 54-year-old farmer growing maize, potato, sota, green beans (and former secretary of the local irrigation scheme) in Khulungira Village, central Malawi (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). Over at SciDev.Net, David Dickson is making the case for joined-up thinking in development work. ‘A holistic approach is also essential for building the solid infrastructure and social systems … Continue reading →

Africa / Animal Diseases / Capacity Strengthening / Central Africa / Disease Control / East Africa / Emerging Diseases / Research / Uganda / Zoonotic Diseases

Makerere-North Dakota to tackle zoonoses and vector-borne diseases in Eastern and Central Africa

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Under a new initiative by the United States Agency for International Development and Higher Education for Development, 11 innovative new partnerships between 22 universities in Africa and the United States have each been awarded up to US$1.1 million to address food security and other issues in Africa. These partnerships will maximize the resources of US … Continue reading →

Africa / Animal Diseases / Capacity Strengthening / Disease Control / East Africa / Emerging Diseases / Kenya / Livestock / Wildlife / Zoonotic Diseases

Kenya Wildlife Service hosts training on wildlife capture and sampling techniques for disease surveillance

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Emerging and re-emerging diseases some of them pandemic in proportions, pose great threat to biodiversity conservation, public health and livestock industry. The African Union’s Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and other international agencies such as Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has started training on wildlife capture and sampling techniques for disease surveillance in collaboration … Continue reading →

Africa / BecA / Capacity Strengthening / ILRI / Research

BecA: Fostering the next generation of African agricultural scientists

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After more than 25 years of sojourn in the United States of America and Latin America that saw her garner numerous professional and state honours for an exceptionally fulfilling career as a scientist, Segenet Kelemu, executive director of the Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa (BecA) Hub decided it was time to go home. At BecA … Continue reading →

Africa / Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / ILRI / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Research

Post-graduate fellowships for African scientists at ILRI

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With generous funding support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), ILRI is offering five Ph.D scholarships for livestock researchers from sub-Saharan African countries. ILRI invites applicants from young African scientists, based at the research and learning institution. The priority research themes are: Climate change, impacts and adaptation Livestock, environment and sustainability Emerging diseases, impacts … Continue reading →

Animal Health / Capacity Strengthening / Disease Control / Southern Africa / UK

Southern Africa academics visit London institute to create new ‘One-health’ courses

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Academics from Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia visited course directors and researchers at two of LIDC’s member Colleges—the Royal Veterinary College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The discussions from their meetings during their two-week stay will influence the curricula for courses on analytical epidemiology, and molecular biology of infectious diseases, which will … Continue reading →

Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / ILRI / Knowledge and Information / Research

Writing effective scientific reports

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This ILRI learning module by Sylvester Dickson Baguma Ponniah Anandajayasekeram and Ranjitha Puskur on Writing convincing research proposals and effective scientific reports, Part B: scientific writing was released on 24 March, 2010. During one of the interactions between the management of the Capacity Strengthening Unit, and the Graduate Fellows of ILRI, the students identified the … Continue reading →

Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / ILRI / Research

Writing a convincing research proposal

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This ILRI learning module by Sylvester Dickson Baguma Ponniah Anandajayasekeram and Ranjitha Puskur on Writing convincing research proposals and effective scientific reports. Part A: writing a convincing proposal was released on 24 March, 2010. The growth in agricultural research investment was very rapid in the 1970s and slowed down since the mid 1980s. The rate … Continue reading →

Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / ILRI / Research

Strengthening partnerships and networks in agricultural research for development

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This ILRI learning module by Ponniah Anandajayasekeram and Ranjitha Puskur on Strengthening partnerships and networks in agricultural research for development was released on 16 March, 2010. The design of the learning module includes guidance notes for potential trainers including learning purpose and objectives for each session; description of the session structure (including methods, techniques, time … Continue reading →