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Using participatory impact pathway methodology to evaluate public–private partnerships in the poultry sector in Ethiopia

A new case study on the poultry sector in Ethiopia reports on the first use of participatory impact pathway methodology to evaluate public–private partnerships in the veterinary domain. The study, published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science (Feb 2022), represents a milestone in building a...

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Millions of new social groups are delivering better agricultural and land management

Etching by Clint Fulkerson. Millions of geographically based new social groups are leading to more sustainable agriculture A new paper in the scientific journal Global Sustainability presents some interesting findings on the rise over the past 20 years in social movements around sustainability...

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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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Expanding capacity for participatory disease surveillance in Uganda

Uganda field work in Bugiri using proportional piling to assess disease mobility and mortality in livestock (photo credit: ILRI) . This article was written by Ekta Patel and edited by Paul Karaimu In an effort to support animal disease surveillance in Uganda, Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF)...

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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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Establishing shared prosperity: Farmers’ groups in northern Ghana set ground rules for using maize shellers

Members of Enye, Nyuri kye Tuna, Tinyogtaa, Zielewye Tidiewulibu, Kandabanye, Sungdiye-Taa, Lanzin and Tie-Taa Maale Farmers Groups pose for a photo with Africa RISING Ghana project staff after a capacity building training on developing group constitution. Photo credit: Wilhelmina Ofori-Duah/IITA...

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Agricultural Extension and Participatory Approaches –co-existence approaches in the agricultural advisory service approaches

Million Getnet Gebreyes works at ILRI as a consultant. He is the National Learning facilitator for SAIRLA- NLA in Ethiopia and Innovation Platform facilitator for Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands. Recently (June 30- July 8, 2018), he was at Haramaya University to teach a course for...

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World Food Day in Ethiopia: Achieving food and nutritional security—and better lives—through livestock

Siboniso (‘Boni’) Moyo (front, left), the ILRI director general’s representative in Ethiopia, pledges with many others to work together toward Zero Hunger in Ethiopia in a celebration on World Food Day, 16 Oct 2018, held in Mojo, central Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). Siboniso Moyo...

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Award-winning paper establishes links between women’s empowerment and crop seed improvement and governance in pre-war Syria

On 5 Dec 2017 Alessandra Galiè (centre) received the Elsevier Atlas award for publishing a research paper with outstanding potential for impacting people’s lives. She stands here with Elsevier associate publisher Virginia Prada López and Wageningen crop systems professor Paul Struik, one of Galiè’s...

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Beyond meat and methane—Advocating for sustainable livestock production

Village women and their livestock in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). This article is jointly written by Brian Kawuma, an ILRI communications specialist based in Uganda, and Laura Arce, a student at John Cabot University, in Rome, both of whom participated in, and reported on, the 3–5 Oct...

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Advisory group re-formed to spearhead science for development in Africa RISING

A complex agricultural research program like Africa RISING needs the help of a dedicated team in keeping it ‘on the right track’ towards its goal of improving food, nutrition, and income security of smallholder families. This is especially critical because the program, now in its second phase, is...

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Social learning opportunities for CGIAR’s new research programs

Social learning approaches take learning and behaviour change beyond the individual to communities, networks and systems. Through facilitated processes of working together, interactive dialogue, exchange, learning, action and reflection, shared ways of knowing emerge that lead to changes, and...

  • Ewen Le Borgne