This month’s issue of ‘Livestock Matter(s)’, explores 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 Livestock research for food security and poverty reduction: ILRI strategy 2013-2022 In April, ILRI’s strategy covering the period … Continue reading
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Animal Breeding / BecA / Biodiversity / Data / East Africa / Ethiopia / Goats / LIVESTOCKFISH
ILRI-BecA goat project harnessing ODK on smartphones for data collection and analysis
To harness genetic diversity to improve goat productivity in Africa, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is testing the open data kit (ODK) in Ethiopia as a tool to collect baseline data on production systems and phenotypic characterization of goats. It will also be tested in Cameroon. The project is led by the Biosciences eastern … Continue reading
East African Dairy Development project: Kenya cows + chilling plants = milk markets (and profits) for farmers
A Kenyan dairy farmer feeds her cow (photo on Flickr by eadairy). ‘A chilling tale of cows in Kenya shows how market access is key to impact investing. . . . ‘It started with a mid-term report I was handed called Milking for Profit. The report details a project that works to uplift subsistence dairy … Continue reading
(Formerly) strange bedfellows in Zimbabwe: Crop and livestock researchers unite to improve smallholder agricultural in the country
The ultimate test: Do livestock eat this feed? Yes. (Photo on Flickr by Swathi Sridharan/ICRISAT). In 2012, three CGIAR centres — the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Africa; the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Mexico; and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), based in India … Continue reading
Event / ILRI / Intensification / Markets / Pakistan / South Asia / Value Chains
ILRI and Lahore livestock institute talk collaboration for development of Pakistan’s livestock sector
A farmer herds his cattle in Sindh Province, Pakistan. Some 30–35 million rural Pakistanis are engaged in livestock raising, with families typically keeping 2–3 cattle or water buffalo and 5–6 sheep or goats, which help them to generate 30–40% of their household income from livestock; find this and more recent information on Pakistan’s livestock sector here (photo … Continue reading
A4NH / Agri-Health / Article / Disease Control / East Africa / Emerging Diseases / Food Safety / Human Health / ILRI / Interview / Kenya / Nutrition / Policy / Report / Zoonotic Diseases
Keeping cows in the city, chickens under the bed: ‘The Atlantic’ magazine explores Africa’s urbanization
Butcher shop in a slum in Kawangare, Nairobi, Kenya (picture on Flickr by Brad Ruggles). It’s not only people who are rapidly urbanizing in Africa: people migrating from rural areas are bringing their livelihoods with them, which in Africa largely means their cattle, goats, sheep, chickens and pigs. A scientific report from researchers based in … Continue reading
Biodiversity / Drylands / East Africa / Environment / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Pastoralism / Tanzania / Vulnerability / Wildlife
‘Green land grabs’: Livestock herders access to rangelands is being lost for conservation purposes
Serengeti tree (photo credit: Jeff Haskins). ‘In the great plains of northern Tanzania, close to the world-famous Serengeti National Park, a bitter row has broken out over an attempt to designate 1,500sqkm of Loliondo District as a game-controlled area. ‘The Maasai herdsmen in the area say their cattle cannot survive without access to traditional dry-season … Continue reading
BecA-ILRI Hub partnering for research and development
The Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub and the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) recently signed a letter of agreement for more collaborative research and capacity building. Read about this initiative on BecA-ILRI Hub website Continue reading
Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’roundup’, March 2013
This March 2013 issue of ‘Livestock Matter(s)’, gives 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. Project news Dairy hubs giving Tanzanians better access to services given funding boost ‘Ireland’s minister of state for development … Continue reading
Agriculture / Article / BecA / Central Africa / Crop-Livestock / East Africa / Kenya / Research
Science fund opens new agricultural research frontiers in Africa
Ethel Makila writes in New Agriculturalist about an African fund that is leading to breakthroughs and opening new frontiers in the continent’s biosciences research (photo: ILRI/David White). This month (Mar 2013), New Agriculturalist features an article on the Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund. This is a fund that is managed by a state-of-the-art biosciences initiative located … Continue reading
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