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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ethiopia, Kenya and Senegal: Disclosure notice for labour management procedures

Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project being implemented in Africa to help deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. AICCRA is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the...

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New multi-stakeholder platform to promote strategic approaches in climate-smart agriculture in Kenya

Laura Cramer from ILRI spoke about the process of developing the Kenya climate-smart platform and ILRI's contribution to it. Cramer is a member of the platform's steering committee (photo: ILRI/David Ngome). One of the biggest challenges in taking effective and sustainable climate action is the...

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Tracking the livestock sector for better climate change adaptation and mitigation in Kenya

Globally, countries are making pledges to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as part of the Paris Agreement, and Kenya is among those that have submitted an updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The country has set a target of reducing GHG emissions by 32% below a business-as-...

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ILRI scientist named among climate science's top 100

Philip Thornton is a principal scientist and CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) flagship leader at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). He was recently named the 39th ‘hottest’ climate change scientist by Reuters . Numerous other CGIAR...

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Senior Kenya government officials visit ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station

ILRI news Jimmy Smith (centre), Dieter Schillinger (second right) and Sita Ghimire (right) with Kenya government officials who recently visited the Kapiti Research Station (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Three senior Kenya government officials visited the International Livestock Research...

Sustainable livestock systems

Climate-smart livestock systems program kicks off in Kenya’s pastoral rangelands

Like many other rangelands in East Africa, the South Rift rangelands in Kenya’s Kajiado County are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In the Ol Kirmatian and Shompole group ranches in Kajiado, pastoralism is the predominant means of livestock production and over the years the pastoralists...

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ILRI trains East Africa officials on measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems

ILRI news Livestock production is the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. But global estimates of these emissions are based on emission factors from developed countries. There is limited data on emissions from livestock systems in developing countries, which has...

Sustainable livestock systems

Changing landscapes call for new pathways in livestock development in Ethiopia’s Afar region

Livestock production is the main source of livelihood in the pastoral lands of Afar in northeastern Ethiopia. But the traditional livestock-keeping way of life there has been severely affected by a number of factors, including climate change, in recent years. Rainfall has become unpredictable, and...

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Reflecting on success

One of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) major success stories in recent years has been the development of an index-based livestock insurance program (IBLI) , which protects livestock keepers in drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands from climate-related losses. The program...

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Index-based livestock insurance: Reflecting on success

One of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) major success stories in recent years has been the development of an index-based livestock insurance program (IBLI) , which protects livestock keepers in drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands from climate-related losses. The program...

Sustainable livestock systems

Linking research-for-development and community needs in the climate-smart livestock systems project

This blog was written by Lucy Njuguna, a Graduate Fellow with the Sustainable Livestock Systems Program. In development work, there is often concern that external interventions can impose unintended costs on communities, especially when there is little or no consultation with the communities on...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

National livestock sector policies and planning under a changing global economy

New study analyses the impact of demand and supply of livestock-derived food on managing the livestock sector. This blog originally appeared on the CCAFS news blog Written by Nelly Njiru and Dolapo Enahoro (ILRI) The livestock sector may have a key role to play in many low-and middle-income...