Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in West and Central Africa and priorities for ILRI’s support

Posted on 31 Dec 2009 by Zerihun Sewunet • Leave a comment

This Status Report by Adama Traore on Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in West and Central Africa and priorities for ILRI’s support was released on 26 December, 2009. Research-based capacity strengthening is one of the priority activities of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The mission of ILRI’s Capacity Strengthening Unit (CaSt) … Continue reading →

Animal Feeding / Ethiopia / Fodder / ILRI / Innovation Systems / Knowledge and Information / Livestock / Research / Vietnam

Fodder adoption blog from ILRI

Posted on 29 Dec 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Alan Duncan – leader of the IFAD-funded ‘Fodder Adoption Project’ at ILRI just launched a new blog to report on activities and developments in the project. Visit the blog at http://fodderadoption.wordpress.com/ Sign up for a regular update by email Continue reading →

Climate Change / ILRI / Livestock

Livestock hurting the environment but improving lives in the developing world

Posted on 28 Dec 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Our planet’s meat and dairy consumption needs careful consideration, but blanket advocacy for policy that opposes the production of livestock is unfortunately a bit short-sighted. Despite the negative associations livestock has gained in recent years–reports of damage to the environment, a number of public health risks, and its role in obesity–new studies reveal that livestock … Continue reading →

Climate Change / Environment / ILRI / Kenya / Livestock

Kenya: Rich nations should help the poor in climate change

Posted on 28 Dec 2009 by ILRI Communications • 1 Comment

We’ve discussed research indicating that eating a less meat-intensive diet could reduce our contribution to global climate change as well as increase life expectancy by reducing heart disease risk. This is based on the reality that farming practices in wealthy nations are resource intensive, producing green house gasses in any number of ways. The fatty … Continue reading →

Dairying / East Africa / ILRI / India / Kenya / Livestock / Markets / South Asia

Symposium develops policy to transform traditional milk markets in East Africa and Northeast India

Posted on 24 Dec 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Between 1 and 4 December 2009, some 25 dairy-sector stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Northeast India met at ILRI Nairobi for a South-South symposium to share lessons on traditional dairy development. Read more … (Livestock Markets Digest) Continue reading →

Africa / Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / ILRI / Livestock / Research / Southern Africa

Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in southern Africa and priorities for ILRI’s support

Posted on 23 Dec 2009 by Zerihun Sewunet • Leave a comment

This Status Report by Sikhalazo Dube on Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in southern Africa and priorities for ILRI’s support was released on 22 December, 2009. One of the five objectives of ILRI‘s Capacity Strengthening Strategy is to facilitate building sustainable capacity of institutes to build capacity. This could only be achieved … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / Central Africa / East Africa / ILRI / Research

The influence of current and future climate-induced risk on the agricultural sector in East and Central Africa: Sensitizing the ASARECA strategic plan to climate change

Posted on 23 Dec 2009 by Zerihun Sewunet • Leave a comment

This Research Report by Jeannette van de Steeg, Mario Herrero, James Kinyangi, Philip Thornton, K.P.C. Rao, Roger Stern, and Peter Cooper on The influence of current and future climate-induced risk on the agricultural sector in East and Central Africa: Sensitizing the ASARECA strategic plan to climate change was released on 23 December, 2009. Rainfed agriculture … Continue reading →

Africa / Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / Central Africa / East Africa / ILRI / Livestock

Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in East and Central Africa and priorities for ILRI’s support

Posted on 21 Dec 2009 by Zerihun Sewunet • Leave a comment

This Status Report by Lusato Kurwijila on Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in East and Central Africa and priorities for ILRI’s support was released on 17 December, 2009. ILRI recognizes that the long-term solution to address the continuous and dynamic nature of capacity strengthening needs is to develop sustainable capacity within the … Continue reading →

Climate Change / ILRI

Copenhagen madness – Patti Kristjanson reflects on a week at COP15

Posted on 18 Dec 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

‘So what was it like at COP15’? A tough question to answer. I think my colleague from England summed it up best in his quintessential low-key British manner – ‘it was madness’. But well organized madness, I must say. There can’t be many nationalities apart from the Danish that could have managed and coped with … Continue reading →

Climate Change / Directorate / ILRI / Livestock

Livestock, food and climate change

Posted on 16 Dec 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Carlos Seré The 800 million livestock keepers of the developing world are among those communities at greatest risk of climate change. They need technological and policy support to produce the greater amounts of milk, meat and eggs needed to feed the world – and to do so more efficiently with less environmental cost. Read more… … Continue reading →

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