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
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Agriculture / ILRI / Research
Farmers want to see the benefits of research
“Farmers are tired of people going to take water samples, soil samples, crop samples. They are fatigued. Farmers want to see benefits.” Mary Njenga, agricultural researcher, Kenya View the video… (GCARD) Continue reading
Writing a convincing research proposal
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
Livestock: A smart solution for food and farming
The March 2010 issue of ILEIA’s ‘Farming Matters’ magazine is subtitled ‘Going for more animals.’ The issue “focuses on how small-scale farmers manage their animals, how they link animal husbandry with other activities, and what their livestock means to them. An integrated perspective on the role of farm animals is crucial in overcoming simplistic assumptions … Continue reading
GPS tracking set to revolutionise livestock management
A recent trial of global positioning system (GPS) tracking technology on Twynam Agriculture’s “Buttabone” property in Western NSW has shown that steers graze only a fraction of the paddock available to them. “Most graziers realise that their cattle don’t use the paddocks evenly,” said Dr Mark Trotter from the University of New England’s Precision Agriculture … Continue reading
Africa / Drought / East Africa / ILRI / Insurance / Kenya / Livelihoods / Livestock
Milking a new system: A scheme to help herders to benefit from modern insurance
The Marsabit district in rugged northern Kenya is the size of Ireland. It has ten tribes and seven languages but only 160,000 people. The manager of the local branch of Equity Bank says it takes two crunching days of driving his jeep through burning deserts to reach some of his customers. Marsabit depends on cattle, … Continue reading
Strengthening partnerships and networks in agricultural research for development
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
Environment / ILRI / Livestock
New report reveals the environmental and social impact of the ‘livestock revolution’
A new report by an international research team explores the impact of the global livestock industry on the environment, the economy and human health. “The livestock industry is massive and growing,” said Harold A. Mooney, co-editor of the two-volume report, Livestock in a Changing Landscape (Island Press). Mooney is a professor of biology and senior … Continue reading
ICT in Africa’s insurance business
It’s all about the customer right now. The insurance sector is grappling with the same sorts of cost pressures evident in other industries, and “outsourcing is a trend” among most players, says Haydn Pinnell, MD of Gallium. …The insurance sector in Africa only represented about 1.3 percent of the global insurance business in 2007, according to … Continue reading
Smallholder farmers hold the key to global food security
Sustainably increasing production in mixed crop-livestock systems is essential to ensure food security, write M. Herrero and colleagues in Science. Mixed crop-livestock systems are home to two-thirds of the global population and produce almost half the world’s cereals and most of the staple crops, meat and milk consumed by poor people. But to cope with … Continue reading
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