Mrs. Ephraim Lukumay, a farmer in Bermi village, Babati District of Tanzania tells of how Amaranth farming has changed her life for the better - thanks to Africa RISING initiative to promote the vegetable in collaboration with AVRDC. Continue reading 
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Turning over a new leaf: How Amaranth farming has transformed the life of a woman farmer in Tanzania
Africa RISING, Jan/2015 |
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Of the many virtues of grain legumes, one is little recognized. Visitors to the livestock fodder markets of West Africa are always surprised to see groundnut and cowpea haulms (stalks and stems of legume plants) sold at prices that exceed that of cereal grains and not infrequently even that of groundnut and cowpea seeds, particularly during periods when sheep keepers are fattening their animal for slaughter at festivities such as Tabaski. Continue reading Livestock and Fish, Dec/2014 |
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In this interview, Cleo Roberts (senior research assistant and monitoring and evaluation officer at the International Food Policy Research Institute - IFPRI) explains why gender is an important component for Africa RISING projects. Continue reading Africa RISING, Dec/2014 |
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A legume delight! How Africa RISING is combating malnutrition and food insecurity in Malawi by holding practical nutrition workshops for farming communities. Continue reading Africa RISING, Dec/2014 |
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The contribution of livestock to human and animal health was among the topics discussed at a high-profile conference organized by the International Livestock Research Institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 6-7 November 2014. AgHealth, Nov/2014 |
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In September a workshop on nutrition organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and the CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) considered ways to shape the CGIAR nutrition agenda going into the 2nd cycle of CGIAR research programs. Discussions focused on how CGIAR research could contribute to increasing access to an affordable, nutritious and safe diets. Continue reading Livestock and Fish, Oct/2014 |
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Nearly half of the farmers in the Africa RISING action sites in Tanzania integrate vegetables into their maize-based farming systems as a strategy to increase and diversify their income and diet according to a household socioeconomic characterization survey conducted by Africa RISING. Continue reading Africa RISING, Oct/2014 |
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The Smallholder Pig Value Chain Development project, which is implemented by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and other partners in Uganda, will conduct household consumer nutrition and dietary surveys from September to November 2014 targeting 1000 households in five districts of Kampala, Masaka, Kamuli, Hoima and Lira. Continue reading Livestock and Fish, Sep/2014 |
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This week, Livestock and Fish program director Tom Randolph was part of a panel at the ILRI@40 Tropentag 2014 session on ‘Livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security and healthy lives.’ Randolph highlighted the focus of ILRI’s – and ILCA and ILRAD before it – research to benefit poor livestock-keeping households for poverty reduction. … Continue reading Livestock and Fish, Sep/2014 |
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Opinion piece by Pamela Anderson and Josh Lozman published in the Impatient Optimists Blog of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: 'Food Security and Nutrition and the Post-2015 Development Goals', 24 Mar 2014. Continue reading ILRI clippings, Mar/2014 |
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- Enhancing the value of ecosystem services in pastoral systems - WLE in Africa
- TechFit tool to prioritize and select animal feed interventions
- Identification and implementation support of mitigation priorities and opportunities in rice-dominated landscapes
- Integrated agricultural technologies for enhanced adaptive capacity and resilient livelihoods in climate-smart villages (CSVs) of Southeast Asia
- ILRI surveillance and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos
- Strengthening the Capacity of African Countries to Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of African Animal Genetic Resources
- Molecular epidemiology network for promotion and support of delivery of life vaccines against Theileria parva and Theileria annulata infection in Eastern and Northern Africa
- Climate change and social learning (CCSL)
- mNutrition global content provision
- LegumeCHOICE: Realizing the underexploited potential of multi-purpose legumes towards improved livelihoods and a better environment in crop-livestock systems in East and Central Africa
- More pork by and for the poor: Catalyzing emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda for food security and poverty reduction
- Piloting climate-adaptive forage seed systems in Ethiopia (FeedSeed)
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Edwin Kimani Kang'ethe mNutrition Project Officer |