New web portal provides open data on food and nutrition security in Africa. Continue reading
Category Archives: Food Security
Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF) – Call for applications 2015
The Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub capacity building program, which is also known as the Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF), is seeking applications for short- to medium-term research projects that can be undertaken at the BecA-ILRI Hub in Nairobi, Kenya. Continue reading
Ethiopia national, international researchers explore deeper collaboration
On 4 and 5 December 2014, the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR) and CGIAR institutes in Ethiopia organized a special consultative meeting to ‘strengthen EARS-CGIAR partnerships for effective agricultural transformation in Ethiopia’. Continue reading
Animal Production / Consumption / Environment / Food Security / Intensification / Livestock Systems / Opinion piece / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock
How to satisfy our appetite for meat without ruining the planet
The human need for food will eventually come to be met in the developing world, but the human appetite for diets that are rich in fish, meat and animal products may be more difficult to satisfy. Continue reading
Small-scale farms mixing livestock and crops are the way to feed the world—Kenya newspaper
According to the article, ‘farmers who mix growing crops with rearing livestock in both poor and developed countries, not only boost food security efforts’, but also earn much needed income in the process. Continue reading
Asia / Farming Systems / Food Security / Humid Tropics / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Livelihoods / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Markets / NRM / PIL / Report / Research / Southeast Asia / Vietnam
Northwest Vietnam situation analysis starting point for Humidtropics research in Central Mekong
The International Livestock Research Institute recently published a ‘situational analysis of agricultural production and marketing, and natural resources management systems in northwest Vietnam’ for the Humidtropics CGIAR research program. It is a starting point for the program’s work in one of the four geographical ‘Action Area Flagships’ where innovations are tested to meet the challenges of stakeholders. It paints a comprehensive and broad picture of the current systems that are key to tackling the problems faced in the target field sites. Continue reading
Animal Production / Article / CCAFS / Climate Change / Consumption / Environment / Food Security / ILRI / ILRIComms / Intensification / Opinion piece / SLS
Having your cake and eating it too–Working both the production and consumption ends of ‘the meat question’
The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) site has published (10 Apr 2014) an interesting comment on an interesting paper by Petr Havlík et al., Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions, published in Feb 2014 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Continue reading
On the making of a report card (SDGs) on a report card (MDGs) on the world’s (unfinished) development agenda
Opinion piece by Pamela Anderson and Josh Lozman published in the Impatient Optimists Blog of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: ‘Food Security and Nutrition and the Post-2015 Development Goals’, 24 Mar 2014. Continue reading
ASSP / East Africa / Environment / Ethiopia / Extension / Food Security / Gender / ILRI / ILRIComms / Innovation Systems / Livelihoods / Livestock-Water / NRM / Participation / Research / Water / WLE
Power, partnership and participation: Nile Basin Development Challenge in summary
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) just published a summary of land and water research, lessons and outcomes generated by the Nile Basin Development Challenge in Ethiopia. Continue reading
Animal Production / Article / CCAFS / Climate Change / Environment / Food Security / ILRI / ILRIComms / Kenya / Livestock Systems / Policy / SLS
What livestock eat (and don’t eat) determines how productive, and efficient, they are–PNAS study
Napier grass (aka ‘elephant grass’), a major feed supplement for dairy cows and other ruminant animals in Kenya (photo credit: Jeff Haskins). Even though research has shown that [greenhouse gas] GHG emissions from the Western world far outweigh those from the developing world, livestock keeping methods in Africa are increasingly becoming a key subject. Europe, … Continue reading
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