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Animal Production / Event / ILRIComms / Intensification / LIVESTOCKFISH / Markets / PIL / Policy / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam

Vietnam’s household livestock farming set for growth

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Young water buffalo and rice fields in Mai Chau (an ethnic Thai village), in Hoa Binh Province, northwest Vietnam. Household livestock production is set to become the leading form of livestock production in the country (photo on Flickr by Lon&Queta). ‘Household livestock production should be developed to reach a larger scale and higher professional level, participants … 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

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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 →

Africa / Animal Health / Disease Control / ECF / ILRI / ILRIComms / Kenya / Staff / Trypanosomiasis / UK / Vaccines

Declan McKeever – ‘Veterinary Record’ tribute to gifted ILRI/ILRAD scientist by Ross Gray and Ivan Morrison

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Declan McKeever was a highly gifted and productive veterinary scientist, who made major contributions to our knowledge of a number of diseases that continue to impair livestock production in Africa. Continue reading →

ASSP / Environment / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Innovation Systems / NRM / Report / Research / SLS

Innovation platforms and natural resources management

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Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This eleventh brief explains how innovation platforms can support work on natural resources management issues that typically require joint action across scale and over time.

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East Africa / Gender / ILRI / Kenya / LIVESTOCKFISH / Mozambique / PIL / Southern Africa / Tanzania / Women

Women, livestock ownership and markets: Bridging the gender gap in eastern and southern Africa

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Authored by Jemimah Njuki and Pascal Sanginga, this book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and economic benefits of livestock markets … Continue reading →

ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Livestock

Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’roundup’ February 2014

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This February 2014  issue of ‘Livestock Matter(s)’ presents a round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from ILRI and its partners. Download a print version or sign up to get Livestock Matter(s) in your mailbox each month. Corporate news ILRI news blog gets a makeover In February, the ILRI news services … Continue reading →