Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in a webinar today hosted by Food Tank, presented the case for sustainable livestock development in low- and middle-income countries helping the world achieve food and nutritional security. Continue reading
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Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance
A Cornell development economist and his partners in the USAID-funded BASIS Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab have won an international award for developing a form of livestock insurance that has already proved itself in pilot testing. Now that it is scaling up, the insurance could help hundreds of thousands of African herders stave off poverty in times of drought. Continue reading
The journal ‘Science’ publishes Q&A with Borlaug Field Award winner Andrew Mude
The journal ‘Science’ publishes Q&A with Borlaug Field Award winner Andrew Mude Continue reading
Breaking the devastating impacts of drought in the Horn of Africa—Kenyan wins global agricultural research award
Kenyan scientist Andrew Mude won the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application on Tuesday for developing livestock insurance, using state-of-the-art technologies, for herders in East Africa’s drylands. Continue reading
Why Melinda and Bill Gates are betting big on chickens (hint: ‘the ATM of the poor’)
Our foundation is betting on chickens. Alongside partners throughout sub-Saharan Africa, we are working to create sustainable market systems for poultry. It’s especially important for these systems to make sure farmers can buy birds that have been properly vaccinated and are well suited to the local growing conditions. Our goal: to eventually help 30 percent of the rural families in sub-Saharan Africa raise improved breeds of vaccinated chickens, up from just 5 percent now. . . . Continue reading
New paper on parasitic infections shows the benefits of co-infections with the ‘mild cousins’ of important pathogens
Herds of African cattle may hold the secret to new ways of fighting parasitic diseases like malaria, which kills some 600,000 people a year, scientists said on Friday. Continue reading
ILRI’s Philip Toye VOA interview on East Coast fever, and the benefits of co-parasitic infections
Voice of America’s Joe DeCapua interview Phil Toye, a scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), about a paper published this week in Science Advance. Continue reading
Jimmy Smith on 40 years of ILRI research–Ethiopia television interview
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, was recently interviewed by Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) television journalist Tefera Gedamu, who asked Smith about ILRI’s 40-year anniversary. Continue reading
ILRI in retrospect – Alexandra Jorge reflects on her work with ILRI in this exit interview
Alexandra Jorge just left ILRI to return to her native Mozambique. In this exit interview she reflects on her years at ILRI and activities of its forage genebank. Continue reading
On a cancer killer of cattle in Africa–Voice of America interviews ILRI’s Vish Nene
New research is underway to develop an advanced vaccine against East Coast fever — a parasitic disease that killed more than one-million cattle in Africa last year. Continue reading