Category Archives: Research

Agriculture / ILRI / Innovation Systems / IPMS / Research

Integrating innovation systems perspective and value chain analysis in agricultural research for development: implications and challenges

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This Working paper by Ponniah Anandajayasekeram and Berhanu Gebremedhin on  Integrating innovation systems perspective and value chain analysis in agricultural research for development: implications and challenges was released on 8 October, 2009. The environment in which agricultural discovery and innovation occurs has been constantly changing with resultant significant influences on the organization and the social … Continue reading →

Africa / ASF / Dairying / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / Markets / Regions / Research

Improving smallholder farmers’ marketed supply and market access for dairy products in Arsi zone, Ethiopia

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This report by Asfaw Negassa formerly with ILRI now with IFPRI on Improving smallholder farmers’; marketed supply and market access for dairy products in Arsi Zone, Ethiopia was released on 8 October, 2009. Presents study carried out on improving smallholder farmers’; marketed supply and market access for dairy products in Arsi Zone, Ethiopia. The main … Continue reading →

East Africa / Kenya / Livestock Systems / Pastoralism / Research

‘60 Minutes’ features ILRI research in the Masai Mara

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The work of ecologist Robin Reid, who spent 15 years conducting pastoral research at the Nairobi headquarters of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is featured in a current segment of the American television program ‘60 Minutes’, which aired last Sunday, 3 October 2009. View the segment on the 60 Minutes website here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml Read … Continue reading →

Africa / Animal Diseases / Cattle / East Africa / ECF / ILRI / Livestock / Regions / Research / Vaccines

African cattle to be protected from killer disease

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Millions of African families could be saved from destitution thanks to a much-needed vaccine that is being mass-produced in a drive to protect cattle against a deadly parasite. East Coast fever is a tick-transmitted disease that kills one cow every 30 seconds – with one million a year dying of the disease. Calves are particularly … Continue reading →

Agriculture / Biodiversity / Food Security / Research

Global crop diversity trust

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Cary Fowler, in the latest issue of the Enews from the Global Crop Diversity Trust, argues that previously hidden national vulnerabilities were exposed in the 2007-8 global food price crisis. He says that crisis revealed weaknesses in national security, weaknesses that many capital-rich but land-poor countries are addressing by buying up farmland in developing countries … Continue reading →

Africa / BecA / Capacity Strengthening / ILRI / Research

Working to increase the food spply in the developing world

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Under a heading ‘career profiles’ in the AAAS Science Magazine, Jagger Harvey of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Hub, is profiled. “As a research scientist at the BecA Hub, today Harvey leads research on plant-viral diseases affecting African crops. He also coordinates the placement and training of international and local researchers and students, from … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / East Africa / ILRI / Livestock / Markets / Middle East / Research / Sheep / Small Ruminants / Sudan / Trade

Constraints in the market chains for export of Sudanese sheep and sheep meat to the Middle East

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This report by Omar Hassan el Dirani of Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries, Sudan, Mohammad A Jabbar, ILRI former staff and Babiker Idris Babiker, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Khartoum,  on Constraints in the market chains for export of Sudanese sheep and sheep meat to the Middle East was released on 15 September, … Continue reading →

ILRI / Livestock Systems / Research

Classifying livestock production systems for targeting agricultural research and development in a rapidly changing world

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This Discussion paper by Notenbaert A., Herrero M., Kruska R., You L., Wood S., Thornton P., Omolo A. on Classifying livestock production systems for targeting agricultural research and development in a rapidly changing world was released on 15 September, 2009. A myriad of agricultural and livestock production systems co-exist in the developing countries. Agricultural research … Continue reading →

Agriculture / Environment / Research

Farewell to Dr Norman Borlaug

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With enormous sadness, the CIMMYT community and its many valued partners and supporters gather in spirit to mourn the passing of Dr. Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, former CIMMYT wheat scientist, and the man whose work saved millions from starvation. Borlaug led a group of foreign scientists who … Continue reading →