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Northern Kenya-southern Ethiopia dryland livestock traders gathered in Marsabit for better livestock trade and market links

Posted on 14 Jun 2018 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Enthusiastic traders from several counties in northern Kenya and from across the border in Ethiopia joined a livestock trade facilitation forum in Marsabit, Kenya on May 9. By close of business, participating livestock buyers and sellers signed contracts for a total of 5,373 livestock at a value of $406,774. Continue reading →

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Accelerating the development of agricultural value chains in Kenya—AVCD Conference Highlights

Posted on 30 Apr 2018 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Twitter Moment highlights of the Accelerated Value Chain Development Conference at ILRI on 26–27 Apr 2018. Continue reading →

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Expanding livestock insurance coverage in Turkana—and across all of Kenya’s great dryland pastoral communities

Posted on 1 May 2017 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

The following excerpts of an opinion piece were written by ILRI’s Andrew Mude and originally published by The Standard newspaper (Kenya): Insurance only way to guard against weather-gone-awry phenomenon, 28 Apr 2017. Continue reading →

AVCD / Drylands / East Africa / ILRI / Kenya / Livestock Systems / LIVESTOCKFISH / Pastoralism / Policy / Rangelands / SLS

ILRI and Kenya’s National Land Commission to collaborate in land use planning and rangelands management

Posted on 25 Oct 2016 by Dorine Odongo • Leave a comment

On 13 October 2016, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the National Land Commission (NLC) in Kenya signed an agreement to initiate collaboration between the two institutions on land use planning and rangeland management. Continue reading →

Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Animal Production / AVCD / Dairying / Disease Control / ECF / Kenya / LIVESTOCKFISH / PIL / Project / Vaccines / Value Chains

Protecting cattle against East Coast fever to boost dairy production in western Kenya

Posted on 25 Jul 2016 by Dorine Odongo • Leave a comment

Since early 2016, AVCD dairy has been working to facilitate farmers’ awareness on the availability and access to ECF vaccines. ILRI has partnered with the county government to expand the distributional reach of the vaccine and improve vaccine delivery. Continue reading →

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Easing bottlenecks to uptake of dairy farming in western Kenya

Posted on 4 Jul 2016 by Dorine Odongo • 5 Comments

Through the recently launched Feed the Future Kenya Accelerating Value Chain Development (AVCD) Program, ILRI has partnered with county governments and other actors to promote dairy production in western Kenya. Continue reading →

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