CGIAR research program on livestock

Lessons from rinderpest eradication could help fight a similar, contagious livestock disease, writes ILRI scientist Delia Grace in a SciDev.Net...

Tools and approaches for estimating feed supply and demand in sufficiently disaggregated forms can enable realistic assessments of achievable...

An article in 'Animal' compares the lifetime performance (mortality, maturity, nutrition, birth weight etc.) of West African Dwarf goats kept...

Scaling up the use of Brachiaria grass as a key forage in Africa Research implemented in Kenya and Rwanda by the Biosciences eastern and central...

In 2016, the Biosciences eastern and central Africa–International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub celebrated 15 years as a centre for...

Held on 4 August 2017 in Nghe An Province, the discussion explored ways in which appropriate policies, strategies and institutional arrangements...

The 2017 gender action plan for the two International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)-led Africa RISING projects in West Africa and East/...

A newly launched pig genetics project seeks to increase the productivity and profitability of the Ugandan smallholder pig enterprises by...

Improved feed marketing system is critical for efficient milk production....

Livestock policies that favour the poor have been shown to be effective in lifting families beyond mere subsistence, generating a ripple effect of...

In March 2017, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) launched the National Learning Alliance (NLA) for the Sustainable...

On Friday 14 July, the role of livestock in achieving the SDGs is the focus of a special event at the High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development...

A global database helps identify how land use and related pressures have influenced the occurrence and abundance of species and the diversity of...

‘Livestock Matter(s)’ provides a round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from the...

The work of the MilkIT project to enhance dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development...

Establishing effective biosecurity measures are the only option at present to prevent the entry and speared of African swine fever (ASF) in...

This week, stakeholders from an ACIAR-funded project met to assess the systemic and gendered opportunities and constraints for innovation in...

Recent study by ILRI shows that pig ownership and labour investment by women in male-headed households did not guarantee that women made decisions...