July 2008 Volume 03 Issue 01
TOP STORIES
Rising milk and meat prices
bring threats and opportunities
Global: More equitable trade policies and substantial investments in agricultural research are needed to help poor farmers seize new market opportunities. Find out more about opportunities for smallholder milk and meat producers >>>
Pig marketing opportunities
in Assam and Nagaland
Asia: With soaring food prices, indigenous peoples in remote States of Northeast India are going back to raising small local black pigs. Find out more about how these local pigs could help double the incomes of poor people in Assam and Nagaland >>>
Investigating new livelihood
options for pastoralists

Global: Research is identifying new development options that will help pastoral peoples and lands of the South adapt to big and fast changes. Find out more about how changing climates, markets will affect poor households in the drylands >>>
Erosion of pastures is big
climate change threat
Africa: New study results are warning that the conversion of huge areas of pasturelands to croplands in east Africa will be a major contributor to global warming in the region. Find out more about predicted land use changes and their implications for people, livelihoods and the environment >>>
 
PRESENTATION


Global: View a presentation on "Livestock Production and Poverty Alleviation in Arid and Semi-arid Tropical Rangelands" delivered by ILRI’s director general, Carlos Seré, at a joint meeting of the International Grasslands and Rangelands congresses, held 29 June–5 July 2008, in Hohhot, in China’s Inner Mongolia.

Two young woman herds goats in Rajashan drylands, Northwestern India (photo by ILRI)
 

Events

22 July 2008
Round table on Global Food Crisis. Nairobi, Kenya

21-24 Sep 2008
International Council for Science (ICSU) General Assembly.
Maputo, Mozambique 

22-29 Sep 2008
First All Africa Congress on Biotechnology. Nairobi, Kenya 

Full calendar of livestock events in
2008
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