This week marked a milestone for the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). For the first time since its reform, it recognized the role of livestock in addressing malnutrition, sustainable agriculture and climate change. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Advocacy / Article / Climate Change / Consumption / Emerging Diseases / Environment / Food Security / FSZ / Nutrition / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / Research
The omnivore’s dilemma: ‘High-steaks’ livestock decisions at next week’s Committee on World Food Security (#CFS43)
Ahead of the CFS43, SIANI spoke with Delia Grace—a veterinary epidemiologist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and a member of the HLPE livestock project team—about the so-called omnivore’s dilemma, the critical issues in livestock production around the world and a vision for policy-makers who will be implementing the HLPE’s recommendations. Continue reading
Animal Products / ILRI / Livestock / Middle East / PIL / PIM / Report / Research / Somalia / Trade
Saudi livestock market requirements, implications for Somaliland
Livestock are the backbone of the Somaliland economy accounting for about 60% of the country’s gross domestic product, 70% of employment opportunities and 85% of export earnings, and about 15% of total government revenue. Despite being Somaliland’s biggest livestock export market, little is known about marketing channels, grading and pricing of Somaliland livestock in Saudi Arabia. A recent research report, sheds a light on these key issues and how they affect Somaliland exporters. Continue reading
Africa / ASSP / CGIAR / East Africa / Ethiopia / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Research
In Ethiopia, collaboration by CGIAR and national partners is delivering integrated development solutions
Within the wider CGIAR phase 2 portfolio development process, ‘site integration’ and country coordination plans are being developed by CGIAR centres and their partners and stakeholders in 20 developing countries. The aim is to ensure that CGIAR efforts contribute to national, as well as international, priorities and goals and ensure that the CGIAR programs and centres coordinate their efforts in each country. Continue reading
Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’round-up’ May-June 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
Ephraim Mukisira appointed chair of Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa board
Ephraim Mukisira, a distinguished agricultural researcher and former director (2005–2014) of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), now the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation, has been appointed chair of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) Board of Directors. Continue reading
How you think matters: The messy, rickety, beautifully self-correcting social enterprise of science
The ever-estimable Atul Gawande has published in The New Yorker this week the commencement address he delivered on 10 Jun 2016 at the California Institute of Technology. It’s worth a close read. Continue reading
A4NH / Article / Communications / East Africa / Finland / FSZ / ILRI / Kenya / Knowledge and Information / Participation / Policy / Research / Tanzania
On more rigorous informed consent in One Health cross-cultural livestock research
This paper outlines two studies on informed consent, for research identifying diseases of animal and human importance, within smallholder livestock value chains. Continue reading
Agri-Health / Animal Products / Buffalo / Cattle / CGIAR / Consumption / Dairying / Food Security / Human Health / Nutrition / PIM / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / Research / South Asia / Vulnerability
Milk production: A nutritional buffer for households in times of conflict and other stress
A new discussion paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recommends that livestock-oriented policies to improve child nutrition be designed to mitigate the harmful impacts of conflicts or related events, such as climate change or natural disasters, and that doing so will lead to healthier, more resilient children and communities. Continue reading
Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news ’round-up’ March-April 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
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