‘Give a woman a fish and she eats for a day, teach her to fish and she eats her for a lifetime’ goes the proverb (sort of); but give her access to markets and she earns a living, and give her community resources to fish sustainably and she can feed the world

Posted on 3 Nov 2010 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Demetria Solomon, 54-year-old farmer growing maize, potato, sota, green beans (and former secretary of the local irrigation scheme) in Khulungira Village, central Malawi (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). Over at SciDev.Net, David Dickson is making the case for joined-up thinking in development work. ‘A holistic approach is also essential for building the solid infrastructure and social systems … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / Asia / Impact Assessment / Knowledge and Information / Latin America / Research / Women

Find out what’s new at the new Consortium of Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

Posted on 31 Oct 2010 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Home page of the website of the Consortium of CGIAR Centers. You’ll find news of the new Consortium of Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to which the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) belongs, posted by the consortium’s communications officer, Elizabeth Clarke, in the What’s New section of the Consortium website. … Continue reading →

Africa / Animal Breeding / Dairying / East Africa / Kenya / Knowledge and Information

‘Moo-bile’ innovation that tracks cow fertility for small farmers in Kenya wins Apps4Africa competition

Posted on 30 Oct 2010 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

A dairy cow on one of Kenya’s many smallholder farms consumes maize stover, an important supplementary feed in East Africa (photo credit: ILRI). Apropos the recently concluded AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair, held at the Addis Ababa campus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), which highlighted local innovations and how to share them, is this … Continue reading →

Africa / ILRI / ILRIComms / Innovation Systems / IPMS / Knowledge and Information

‘Still all jazzed up’–impacts of the Addis AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair keep on and on . . .

Posted on 28 Oct 2010 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

Roxanna Samii, knowledge practitioner at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, speaks at the opening of the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair, held on the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, campus of the International Livestock Research Institute last week (photo credit: ILRI/Habtamu). Over at the Social Reporting Blog run by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, knowledge practitioner … Continue reading →

Ethiopia / Film and video / ILRI / Knowledge and Information / Participation / UK

Telling their own story: Collaborative research using participatory video

Posted on 14 Oct 2010 by ILRI Communications • 2 Comments

One of the participating in the ‘AgKnowledge Africa’ Share Fair being held 18–21 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is Beth Cullen, an anthropology PhD researcher from Durham University (UK). Cullen undertook collaborative research with members of the Karrayyu Oromo pastoralist community for 18 months using participatory video methods. The Karrayyu … Continue reading →

Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Asia / Disease Control / Emerging Diseases / Knowledge and Information / Livestock / South Asia / Sri Lanka / Zoonotic Diseases

Mobile-phone–based surveillance of infectious disease in Sri Lanka

Posted on 23 Sep 2010 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

With infectious zoonotic diseases emerging in animals in low- and middle-income countries, surveillance of animal health in these nations is becoming increasingly important for forecasting disease risks to people. A new paper describes a mobile-phone-based surveillance system for animal populations that has been developed and implemented in Sri Lanka. Using this system, field veterinarians reported … Continue reading →

Animal Breeding / Asia / Biodiversity / India / Indigenous Breeds / Knowledge and Information / Livestock / South Asia

Genetic documentation battling livestock extinction in India

Posted on 30 Aug 2010 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

With the country’s rich pool of livestock resources facing threat from extinction due to loss of habitat and shortage of green fodder, a unique initiative to retain and register genetic characteristics through documentation has helped in reviving many breed. Read more … (Financial Express) National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources Continue reading →

Knowledge and Information / Research

Publish or post? Paradigm shift for scientific publishing advocated

Posted on 15 Aug 2010 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

‘As the news release for LiquidPublication simply states: “Don’t print it; post it.” To disseminate the information, the program has a software platform that lets other scientists search for what’s been posted, leave comments, link related works, and gather papers and information into their own personalized online journals — all for free. ‘”I think it’s … Continue reading →

Animal Diseases / Disease Control / Knowledge and Information / Livestock

Molecular diagnostic methods help identify disease in livestock

Posted on 20 Jul 2010 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • 2 Comments

Scientists have developed technology that can be carried to the field in a laptop suitcase to diagnose diseases in animals on the spot. The joint division of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are using molecular diagnostic methods, once only available in laboratories. Dr. Hermann Unger, Technical Officer … Continue reading →

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