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Addressing Uganda’s pig value chain constraints, the PigSmart way

Improved pigs on a farm in Hoima district (photo: ILRI/Karen Marshall). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is implementing a Uganda priority country project to address specific constraints in the pig value chain. The ‘Improving pig productivity and incomes through an...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

New research examines gender dynamics in seed systems development

First published on the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) blog by Berber Kramer, Alessandra Galiè, and Evgeniya Anisimova . (CIAT Seeds. Photo credit: CIAT/Stephanie Malyon). All agricultural production—whether of crops, trees, forages, livestock or fish—starts with...

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From framework to implementation: ILRI Impact at Scale program publishes first scaling readiness analysis on livestock innovations

The Impact at Scale (I@S) program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has published the ‘ Scaling Readiness report and scaling plan for training and certification approach for small-scale pig producers in Uganda. ’ This is the first of a series of Scaling Readiness reports and...

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A woman for all livestock seasons—ILRI’s Shirley Tarawali

Shirley Tarawali, who serves as assistant director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), this month (Nov 2020) took on the additional role of chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL). (Please see this interview of Tarawali by Mireille Ferrari about...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

India’s Odisha state starts work on a livestock master plan

Rearing goats in Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) . The Indian state of Odisha has officially rolled-out the process of designing a ‘livestock master plan’ (LMP) with the support of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The process started on 22 Oct...

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Shining a light on how CGIAR innovations are being adopted in Ethiopia

Agriculture is an important sector in Ethiopia as it accounted for 47 percent of Ethiopia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) on average over the last decade and is estimated to employ more than three-quarters of all workers in the country. CGIAR has partnered with Ethiopia in its agricultural...

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‘Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development’ (BUILD) project to hold virtual stakeholder consultation this week

‘Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development’— BUILD , for short— is a five-year research-for-development project led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and funded by the German government through the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)...

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Making gender equality in food systems the ‘new normal’. For a more equal, and better, world. For all.

Meet Amina. She’s a farmer. She sows and harvests. She feeds and tends her family’s animals, collects fuelwood, carries water. She sells crops she grows. She shops and cooks. She funds her children’s education, cleans house, takes care of the sick and elderly. Despite all of this, Amina has less...

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Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children

Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tadelle Dessie is one of many authors of a new paper in the Journal of Nutrition with partners from Harvard and Purdue universities and Boston College, in the US; the Food, Agriculture and Natural...

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New alliance for better dairy animal nutrition in Kenya will work to advance ‘human nutrition, success and progress’

Lilian Satia, a young dairy entrepreneur in Nakuru, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). Yesterday (7 Sep 2020) the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and four partners— Bidco Land O’Lakes , Corteva Agriscience , Forage Genetics International ( FGI ) and Land O’Lakes...

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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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Laughter, the universal language

Author Zoë Campbell at a community meeting with Fulani pastoralists in Senegal (photo credit: Guy Ilboudo, ILRI-Burkina Faso). Written by ILRI gender and socioeconomic researcher Zoë Campbell. If there were no language barriers, what would research be like, I wonder? I’m a gender researcher working...