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Livestock and the environment: As the hard trade-offs look to get only get...
Ramand Ram with goats in his family’s plot in Rajasthan, India. Intensifying mixed crop-and-livestock farming and helping livestock keepers diversify their sources of income can protect livestock...
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India, Mozambique goat value chain project starts
This week, partners in the ‘imGoats’ project meet in India to finalize plans and outcomes for the project. The project – official title ‘Small ruminant value chains to reduce poverty and increase food...
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The future of pastoralism in Africa debated in Addis: Irreversible decline or...
A Maasai man takes his goats out in the early morning for a day’s grazing in northern Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). An international conference deliberating the future of pastoralists in Africa...
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In the crosshairs of hunger and climate change: New ILRI-CCAFS study maps the...
Please find a corrected and revised statement below, along with a link to download revised maps here: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/climate_hotspots. All edits to the original article posted on this...
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US-Kenyan team developing vaccine to protect African cattle against deadly...
Staff of ILRI’s Tick Unit dissect ticks to extract the parasite Theileria parva, which causes East Coast fever in cattle (photo credit: Brad Collis). A vaccine that protects cattle against East Coast...
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Africa’s vast eastern and southern drylands get new attention–and...
A new CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is being planned to find ways to help dryland communities climb out of poverty while enhancing their food security and protecting their natural...
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Experts comment on new drylands research program for eastern and southern Africa
Watch this brief ILRI video (run-time under 7 minutes) of quick comments made by six participants following a recent inception workshop hosted by ILRI to plan work in eastern and southern Africa by...
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New vaccine launched today to protect Kenyan cattle against East Coast fever
Mrs Kivuti and her dairy cow in Kenya (on Flickr by Jeff Haskins). Today is a red-letter day for livestock keepers in Kenya. A vaccine is being launched by the Kenya Department of Veterinary Services...
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Beef in Botswana/Namibia, dairy in Kenya—Smallholders succeeding in...
Cattle in Botswana. The country has successfully marketed its beef to high-value livestock markets (photo credit: ILRI/Saskia Hendrickx). At a recently concluded three-day (26-28 Jun) Africa...
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World’s largest agricultural research partnership, serving 1 billion poor,...
Tanzanian Maasai help vaccinate their calves against lethal East Coast fever (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). CGIAR has doubled its funding in the last five years, from $500 million (in 2008) to $1...
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