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Recent locust swarms highlight the importance of livestock in east Africa

In December 2019, and continuing through most of 2020, locust swarms periodically blotted the skies above east Africa. The invasion formed in the Arabian Desert in May 2018, with strong winds eventually pushing the insects across the Red Sea and into east Africa, generating a plague on a scale not...

ILRI News

The challenge of securing women's land rights in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia

Land rights remain a complex and ambiguous subject for the majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa. In Ethiopia, formal state laws assert that women have equal rights regarding land use and access. However, Ethiopia's pastoral areas are often highly influenced by both religious and customary...

Africa RISING feed

Bridging the livestock feed gap through improved feed and forage options

Ethiopia is known for its large livestock population. The livestock sector in Ethiopia contributes about 46% of the country’s agricultural GDP. Livestock is primarily kept on smallholdings where it provides draught power for crop production, manure for soil fertility and fuel, and serves as a...

  • Haimanot Seifu
ILRI News
ILRI News

Urban food markets in Africa: stakeholders discuss project findings

The research project ‘ Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach’ aims to mitigate food safety risks in the poultry and vegetable chains of Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. Initiated in 2018, the project, led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI...

AgHealth blog

CGIAR scientists and research collaborators from Ethiopia discuss new One Health initiative

The world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership, CGIAR , is currently developing a series of initiatives to implement its 2030 research and innovation strategy that was launched in early 2021. The research initiatives are designed to create lasting impact in five key areas:...

ILRI News

Aligning and combining interventions key to One CGIAR sustainable animal productivity initiative in Ethiopia

To implement its 2030 research and innovation strategy , the CGIAR is developing a series of initiatives designed to achieve a world with sustainable and resilient food, land, and water systems that deliver more diverse, healthy, safe, sufficient, and affordable diets, and ensure improved...

ILRI News

After 10 years in Kenya and Ethiopia, are we ready to scale up livestock insurance in the Horn of Africa?

Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) programs in East Africa have thus far had limited success. A new ILRI study finds that future initiatives should embrace a number of lessons learned if they wish to achieve scale and financial sustainability. It’s not a secret – for millions of people,...

  • Felix Lung
    Disaster risk finance consultant
Africa RISING feed

Ethiopia partners apply digital solutions in on-farm experiments

Training participants group photo (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu) . The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian Highlands held training sessions for project site coordinators, extension experts, development agents and data enumerators from 7–8 June 2021. Close to 20 participants from project...

  • Haimanot Seifu
ILRI News

How COVID-19 measures have affected food safety in East Africa

By Florence Mutua , International Livestock Research Institute ; Delia Grace , International Livestock Research Institute , and Erastus Kang'ethe , University of Nairobi Foodborne diseases are thought to impose a health burden on society comparable to the “big three”: malaria, HIV/AIDs and...

ILRI News

Understanding the burden of foodborne disease to ensure food safety in Ethiopia

More than half a billion people around the world fall ill every year from the food they eat. As a result, ensuring food safety remains a major global challenge. As we celebrate the World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2021, it is important to understand the burden of foodborne disease and how it affects...

Africa RISING feed

Africa RISING publishes a livestock feed and forage production manual for Ethiopia

A farmer in his fodder beet farm in Embahasti (photo credit: Apollo Habtamu/ILRI). Livestock plays a major role in the livelihoods of pastoralists and smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. They are a source of food (animal protein) for most families in the country and also support crop production...

  • Haimanot Seifu
ILRI News
ILRI News

Building a sustainable livestock genetics improvement system for a food-secure Ethiopia

The African Dairy Genetics Gains (ADGG) project, which is led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and implemented by multiple partners in Ethiopia and Tanzania, is addressing livestock productivity challenges to improve dairy production in the two countries. To celebrate key...