‘Livestock Matter(s)’ provides a round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Disease Control / France / Human Health / Innovation Systems / Opinion piece / Policy / Poverty / Research / UK
Science: The fuel for human progress—by Bill Gates
The following remarks are excerpted from an opinion piece written by Bill Gates and published on his Gates Notes blog. ‘The first promise of any good politician is to make people’s lives better, and scientific research leading to innovation is one of the best ways to honor that promise . . . .’ Continue reading
Article / Communications / Environment / Food Security / ILRI / Livelihoods / Poverty / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research
Top 10 viewed ILRI Clippings blog articles of 2016
Take a look below at the top ten viewed articles published in 2016 on the ILRI Clippings blog. Continue reading
Measuring the roles of livestock in rural households
A new multi-partner publication provides guidance for effectively including livestock in multi-topic and agricultural household surveys. The livestock module template provided in this Guidebook can be used by survey practitioners and stakeholders to generate household-level statistics on livestock, its role in the household economy, and its contribution to livelihoods. Continue reading
Publish or perish: Towards diagnosing, and solving, chronic underinvestment in developing-country research
There is a vicious circle of under-investment in research in developing countries, especially in the social sciences. To make matters worse, expenditure on social science research is generally less than 20% of gross expenditure on R&D Continue reading
A4NH / Agri-Health / Article / Consumption / Human Health / Nutrition / Policy / Research
Towards a new global research agenda for nourishing—rather than just feeding—people
The era of commodity research aimed at feeding a starving world is over. A new era has begun that requires us to nourish everyone in ways that can be sustained environmentally, economically and culturally. Policymakers urgently need to recognize that diets are compromising economic productivity and well-being as never before. Continue reading
CCAFS / Climate Change / Environment / Europe / ILRI / North America / Opinion piece / Policy / Research / SLS / UK / USA
Fighting climate change in a post-modernist world of pop art politics—Opinion by Phil Thornton
Phil Thornton leads CGIAR research on institutions and policies for climate-resilient food systems. He makes the case for better and closer scientist-citizen engagement in an opinion piece published this week in the wake of this year’s national political election results in Australia, the UK and the USA. Continue reading
Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / CGIAR / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Research
Capacity development in agri-food systems: Entry points for research
The International Livestock Research Institute, and other partners in the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) have released eight briefs to help CGIAR Research Programs integrate key ‘capacity development in systems’ concepts into their work. Continue reading
Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’round-up’ September-October 2016
‘Livestock Matter(s)’ provides a round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners. Continue reading
A4NH / Agri-Health / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / ASSP / Disease Control / Epidemiology / FSZ / ILRI / LIVESTOCKFISH / Research / Zoonotic Diseases
Tropical animal diseases and veterinary public health: ILRI at first AITVM/STVM joint conference
From 4-8 September 2016 more than 250 researchers from 55 different countries met in Berlin, Germany, in the historic buildings of the Humboldt University for the first joint conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (AITVM) and the Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine (STVM). Continue reading
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