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Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever
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Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever

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RCVS Knowledge, the charity partner of the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has awarded its inaugural Plowright Prize to Professor William Ivan Morrison of the University of Edinburgh for his research combating the cattle disease East Coast fever. Ivan Morrison started his career at ILRAD, a predecessor of ILRI, where he worked from 1975 to 1990, leading, and building up, ILRAD’s research program on East Coast fever for many of those years. Continue reading →

New studies provide the first accurate estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from East African livestock
Animal Feeding / Cattle / Climate Change / East Africa / Feeds / ILRI / Kenya / LIVESTOCKCRP / Mazingira / News clipping / SLS / Staff

New studies provide the first accurate estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from East African livestock

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The following excerpts are from an article ILRI scientist John Goopy published in late May 2018 reporting on the results of two recent studies that provide more accurate estimates of the greenhouse gases emitted by East African smallholder livestock systems. Continue reading →

Appolinaire Djikeng, of BecA-ILRI Hub, appointed director of leading tropical livestock centre
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Appolinaire Djikeng, of BecA-ILRI Hub, appointed director of leading tropical livestock centre

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Appolinaire Djikeng has been appointed director of the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health, a partnership between the University of Edinburgh, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and ILRI. Continue reading →

How the anti-meat mantra of rich countries hurts development in poor countries
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How the anti-meat mantra of rich countries hurts development in poor countries

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Rich countries making bad food choices and consuming too much meat should not force their ideas about environmental and health issues and agricultural sustainability on the world’s many hungry people who eat too little livestock-sourced nutrition says, says Dr Jimmy Smith from the International Livestock Research Institute in Africa. Continue reading →

Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance
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Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance

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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 →

Food prize puts Kenyan researcher on global map—Kenya’s ‘Business Daily’ newspaper
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Food prize puts Kenyan researcher on global map—Kenya’s ‘Business Daily’ newspaper

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Even with the Tuesday announcement that he had won the award, Andrew Mude, who holds a doctorate in economics, remains a modest man committed to resolving the dilemma that pastoral communities, especially in northern Kenya, have endured for decades. When he was named winner of the 2016 World Food Prize’s Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application this week, he could barely hold back his emotions, as the reality of his achievement hit home. Continue reading →

Breaking the devastating impacts of drought in the Horn of Africa—Kenyan wins global agricultural research award
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Breaking the devastating impacts of drought in the Horn of Africa—Kenyan wins global agricultural research award

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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 →

Frank Rijsberman appointed director general of the Global Green Growth Institute
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Frank Rijsberman appointed director general of the Global Green Growth Institute

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‘Dr. Frank Rijsberman, the former CEO of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Consortium, has been appointed as the Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Dr. Rijsberman will lead the Seoul-based international organization for a four-year term, beginning on October 1, 2016, succeeding Yvo de Boer. ‘”The opportunity to support developing … Continue reading →