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		<title>New study injects new life into the livestock &#8216;goods&#8217; and &#8216;bads&#8217; controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A new two-volume report, Livestock in a Changing Landscape, released in March 2010, makes the case that the livestock sector &#8216;is a major environmental contributor&#8217; as well as a major livelihood of the world&#8217;s poor. 

The report&#8217;s co-editor, biologist Harold Mooney, says: 
&#8216;We want to protect those on the margins who are dependent on a handful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1554</link>
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		<title>ILRI&#8217;s Alan Duncan on livestock and poor people in Ethiopia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In October 2009, Danielle Nierenberg of the Worldwatch Institute&#8217;s &#8216;Nourishing the Planet&#8216; project began a visit to Africa to document agricultural innovations. Her aim: &#8220;to tell stories of hope and success in food production from all over Africa.&#8221;
Early in the trip she visited the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa; she has subsequently been in Kenya, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1548</link>
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		<title>A tribute to the women in our world: ILRI celebrates International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year around the world, International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8th March. Hundreds of events occur not just on this day but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women.
Organizations, governments and women&#8217;s groups around the world choose different themes each year that reflect global and local gender issues.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1530</link>
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		<title>Pastoral reciprocity: A lesson in community ethos</title>
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We heard today from Mohamed Said, a scientist leading research at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on pastoral rangelands in eastern Africa, that Kitengela, a Maasai rangeland neighbouring Nairobi, is turning green again after good recent rains following last year&#8217;s devastating drought, which the livestock herders in Kitengela say killed most of their livestock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1523</link>
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		<title>Collective action is &#8220;in action&#8221; for African agriculture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaborative agricultural research in Africa gets a welcome boost

In recent months, an initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) called the Regional Plan for Collective Action in Eastern &#38; Southern Africa (now simply called the ‘Regional Collective Action’) updated its ‘CGIAR Ongoing Research Projects in Africa Map’: http://ongoing-research.cgiar.org/ This collaborative and interactive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1516</link>
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		<title>Swedish International Development Agency grants USD 10.67 million to improving the quality of African science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bio-resources Innovations Network for Eastern Africa Development (Bio-Innovate) announce USD10.67 million grant from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)

 
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) today announced a SEK80 million (USD10.67 million) grant from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) to support the set up of a multidisciplinary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1511</link>
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		<title>Animal agriculture can help sustain the new &#8216;food frontiers&#8217; that should feed the world&#8217;s growing populations</title>
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Voice of America reported yesterday (&#8216;Regulation Can&#8217;t Keep Pace with Livestock&#8217;, 22 Feb 2010) that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that &#8216;livestock production is growing faster than our capacity to safely manage it&#8217;. A new FAO report, The State of Food and Agriculture, underscores the importance of supporting the world&#8217;s one billion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1495</link>
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		<title>Moving from project mode to innovations systems thinking?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on some ILRI experiences in Ethiopia, Alan Duncan explores some challenges associated with innovation systems approaches that focus less on promoting a specific technical solution and more on facilitation of innovation, learning and joint actions among groups of people and organizations.
He poses two important generic questions:

facilitating stakeholder platforms is quite demanding of time and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1492</link>
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		<title>Scottish and Kenyan research groups collaborate to improve control of deadly cattle disease in Africa</title>
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New project launched to investigate how immunity develops in cattle to fatal diseases caused by different strains of tick-borne parasites
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
More than 1 in 5 people in sub-Saharan Africa live below the poverty line. Many of these people live in rural communities heavily dependent on livestock for their livelihoods. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1484</link>
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		<title>ILRI study published today in Science special issue on food security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A paper written by several centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems, is published in the current issue (12 February 2010: Vol. 327. no. 5967, pp. 822–825) of Science magazine. The paper argues that the world&#8217;s small-scale mixed crop-and-livestock farmers are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/1469</link>
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