A recent issue of the magazine ‘Rural 21’ is dedicated to livestock and development. Articles include: The livestock challenge Livestock and the MDGs (ILRI paper) Making livestock policy pro-poor Livestock and climate change (ILRI paper) One World, One Health? The role of livestock in African agriculture Continue reading
Category Archives: Africa
Why farms may be the new forests
For people who see stopping deforestation as the quickest climate-change win, Copenhagen seemed a success. Although there is still work to be done on the initiative known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), the deal struck in Copenhagen made it into a real thing, not just an idea. The notion of reducing … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / CGIAR / Research
CG Research Map: Revamped access to ongoing research projects in Africa
The refurbished CG Ongoing Research map has new functionalities such as: A more targeted and friendly search engine, project overviews, and links to project documentations among others, which will be sure to revolutionize the way we share research information and make browsing even more interesting. We are currently working on completing these additional project details. … Continue reading
Zambia government to establish livestock disease-free zones
GOVERNMENT will this year establish disease-free zones in three provinces in order to control major livestock diseases and improve livestock productivity with enhanced provision of infrastructure. It is expected that within the zone and its borders, appropriate official veterinary control would be effectively applied for animals and animal products and their transportation. Read more … … Continue reading
Africa / Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / Central Africa / ILRI / Livestock / Research / West Africa
Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in West and Central Africa and priorities for ILRI’s support
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
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
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
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
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
A ‘one health’ approach to addressing emerging zoonoses: The HALI project in Tanzania
In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Jonna Mazet (University of California, Davis) and colleagues describe their work in the Tanzania-based HALI Project, which adopts the ‘One Health’ approach to address emerging zoonoses, recognizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. There is a strong need for integrated health approaches, the authors argue, because explosive human … Continue reading
Africa / Cattle / Climate Change / East Africa / Kenya / Livestock
Activists have a beef with livestock-keeping and meat intake culture
It is not the best time for livestock breeders to be in Copenhagen, especially those whose livelihoods and culture are intertwined with the precious creatures that provide meat in diet. Negotiators and activists here say the world has to cut its meat consumption and activities around raising chicken, pigs, and cattle, saying they are major … Continue reading
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