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Ethiopian lab scientists meet to compare notes on use of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) to estimate livestock feed quality

Low livestock productivity mainly related to poor nutrition is a common problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Matching the available feed resources with the requirements of animals could increase productivity, reduce the environmental impacts, and reduce feed costs. Routine feed evaluation has proved very...

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Seizing virtual opportunities for CGIAR research in a pandemic

Every cloud has a silver lining – even a pandemic. For months, while the COVID-19 crisis locked CGIAR researchers into their homes, it also unlocked virtual innovation across the whole network. Like green shoots in the sunshine, people across the CGIAR turned towards virtual tools, applications and...

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A new ‘How-To-Do’ note provides guidance on addressing land-use conflicts in pastoral areas

Conflicts are relatively common in pastoral and agropastoral areas, and how they are perceived and handled has a strong influence on their outcomes. Many underlying conflicts are latent – unseen to an outsider, lying quietly under the surface, and triggered by an event or action, such as building a...

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A new ‘How-to-Do Note’ provides guidance on designing and implementing ‘gender and pastoralism’ projects

Women’s participation in community governance and local development is often limited by patriarchal discourses, biases and norms that define gender roles. Given pastoralist women’s role as resource managers, agents of change and development actors, securing their place in decision-making processes...

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The power of ideas: New ways of thinking about gender can improve development outcomes

What does it mean to take gender seriously in development—and specifically in agriculture and livestock development? How can the international community promote economic development in ways that are both culturally sensitive and substantively equitable? What kinds of power are available to women in...

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Woman veterinarian pioneers public-private partnership to improve veterinary service delivery in Ethiopia

Netsanet Sitotaw, 25, is a young veterinarian and the owner of ‘Netsanet Sitotaw’, a veterinary clinic in Bahir Dar, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region. She is the pioneer of a ‘public-private partnership (PPP) for vaccination services’, which is providing rabies vaccination services in the town and is...

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Twitter Moment: ILRI-UNEP explore ‘One Health’ at the Global Landscapes Forum

“ILRI-UNEP explore ‘One Health’ at the Global Landscapes Forum” Click open this link: https://t.co/GA4oAFZ964 pic.twitter.com/qmu47A0k7R to view a few of the tweets posted about one of the most interesting sessions held at the Global Landscapes Forum on 4 Jun 2020: ‘BUILDING BACK BETTER: Taking a...

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ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadly as possible, its research on issues related to COVID-19 with the media, policymakers and the public, and to make its experts available to comment on fast-moving developments in the field. Since its...

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ILRI adopts new framework for scaling up livestock research for development

Farmers in developing countries benefit from ILRI’s research outputs that are taken to scale (photo credit: ILRI). The core business of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is to undertake livestock research for development. However, ILRI, along with other CGIAR centres and...

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When did the chicken first cross the road?

There are nine chickens in the world for every human, but the story of how the species emerged from the jungles of Southeast Asia some 8,000 years ago to become the world’s favoured protein source is a complicated one. ‘The success of the chicken has a lot to do with its diversity, and that...

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Livestock route mapping for improved health of humans, animals and the environment

Pastoralism is an effective and productive livelihood system that makes the best use of variably distributed natural resources in often dry rangeland areas where it has a particularly strong comparative advantage over other land uses. In order to function well, pastoralists and their livestock need...

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On this International Women’s Day 2020, ILRI commits to strengthening women’s rights in livestock systems and enterprises

This International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is supporting a campaign run by a new GENDER platform of CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research and innovation partnership for a food-secure future. Trader Augusta Thomas sells chickens in...