To bring social and economic transformation of rural Pakistan by empowering millions of small livestock holders, the government has initiated ‘poverty reduction through small holders livestock and dairy development’. Read more … (Daily Times) Continue reading
Category Archives: Regions
Drought / East Africa / Food Security / ILRI / Kenya / Report
Why is it some households fall into poverty while others do not? Evidence from Kenya
This Discussion Paper by Nelson Mango, Patti Kristjanson, Maren Radeny, Abisalom Omolo and Michael Arunga of ILRI and Anirudh Krishna on Why is it some households fall into poverty at the same time others are escaping poverty? Evidence from Kenya was released on 11 August, 2009. It presents study carried out to evaluate how different … Continue reading
ACTESA – Organization for East African farmers
COMESA announced the creation of the Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA), which should help farmers to address their problems during rough times. During the second congress of the East African Farmers’ Federation (EAFF) in Arusha, Tanzania the creation of ACTESA was hailed as the most significant development in regional agriculture … Continue reading
Roche and Google.org to test former’s technology in detecting new diseases in Africa
Roche and Google.org agreed to work together to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a multidisciplinary surveillance, research, and response system. The goal is for this system to enhance the ability to predict and prevent emerging infectious diseases in East Africa. Roche donated a Genome Sequencer FLX system, which will become the backbone of this project. … Continue reading
Roche donates 454 GS FLX for Google-sponsored disease-monitoring project in Africa
Roche said this week that it has donated a 454 Genome Sequencer FLX for a joint project with Google.org that aims to predict and prevent emerging viral diseases in East Africa. Late last year, Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, granted $5 million to the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Icipe, and its … Continue reading
Africa / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Disease Control / East Africa / ILRI / Livestock / RVF
Decision-support tool for prevention and control of Rift Valley Fever epizootics in the Greater Horn of Africa. Version I
This report by ILRI on Decision-support tool for prevention and control of Rift Valley Fever epizootics in the Greater Horn of Africa was released on 7 August, 2009. This publications presents study on decision-support tool for prevention and control of Rift Valley fever epizootics in the Greater Horn of Africa. The decision-support tool consists of … Continue reading
Masai Mara—a beauty in jeopardy
Famed the world over for its spectacular and breathtaking site of the migration of tens of thousands of wildebeests, the Maasai Mara’s impressive and unmatched reputation is fading fast. Maasai Mara National Reserve is losing animal species at a rate that is having scientists concerned, a new study now shows. Published in the May issue … Continue reading
ILRI and the East African community secretariat sign MoU
ILRI and the East African Community secretariat signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which aims to establish a long term relationship for purposes of exploiting their complimentaries in research knowledge generation and its application to further their respective missions. In particular, ILRI and EAC are to explore possibilities of…(Full document PDF) Continue reading
Kenya seeks to grow beef export market
The Kenyan Government is making fresh attempts to establish livestock disease-free zones to expand the country’s beef export market. Livestock permanent secretary Kenneth Lusaka said his ministry was expecting some funding from both internal and external sources for the setting up of the zones. Read more. . . (The Daily Nation) Continue reading
Livestock may do better than crops, African farmers told
The stresses of climate-induced crop failures could be avoided if more small farmers in Africa also raised livestock, say researchers. Climate change will result in a 10–20 per cent drop in yield for crops such as beans, maize and millet in Africa’s drylands by 2050, researchers from the Kenya-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and … Continue reading
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