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ILRI News
David Aronson

Some notes on the IPCC report

The latest IPCC report, Climate Change and Land , arrived last week, first with a thud and then a sonic boom, as reporters raced against their deadlines to make sense of its 1,499 pages of dense, detailed scientific analysis. It covers everything from the lengthening growing season of cucumbers in...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

Researchers call for a gendered approach in strategies for community uptake of livestock vaccines

The design of strategies for uptake of livestock vaccines by communities in East Africa should take into account that male and female farmers face different barriers in the uptake of the vaccines, a new research study says. These barriers include the cost of the vaccines, distances to vaccination...

ILRI clippings
David Aronson

Thursday links (August 2019)

A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) staff and partners, compiled by David Aronson. We start this month with good and bad news from Kenya: Immunologist Faith...

ILRI clippings
David Aronson

Thursday Links

A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) staff and partners, compiled by David Aronson. We start this month with good and bad news from Kenya: Immunologist Faith...

ILRI News
Paul Karaimu

US ambassador to Mali visits communities in Sikasso region supported by an ILRI-led livestock technology scaling project

Written by Assoumane Maiga Aoussata Coulibaly (left) talking to Dennis Haskins, US Ambassador to Mali (in dark jacket) and his delegation about business and job opportunities created by the Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (photo credit: ILRI/Amadou Nouh Saw). On 25 July...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

Boosting Uganda’s action plans on livestock development – BMZ-funded project to tackle animal health challenges

Rose Ademun (MAAIF), Julia Kronberg (BMZ) and Jimmy Smith (ILRI) at the BuildUganda Project launch in Kampala, Uganda (Photo credit: ILRI/Ekta Patel) Written by Ekta Patel, Kristina Roesel and Peter Ballantyne In early June this year, policymakers, researchers, government and private sector...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

Engaging non-scientists in the scientific process: India project employs ‘participatory system dynamics modelling’ to improve control of livestock diseases in the country

(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, a consultant scientist with ILRI in South Asia.) The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) are conducting a collaborative project on use of participatory methods in animal disease...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

New review article tackles the question: Can aflatoxin binders in foods be promoted safely and ethically?

There are too many issues with using lactic acid bacteria for aflatoxin binding for the practice to be safely promoted, according to a newly published review . The review adds that using aflatoxin binders in human food might even worsen food safety in the longer term. “Use of binding agents in...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

#ThrowbackThursday Video—Misku and Gebremichael’s stories

Don’t miss these two superb and VERY short videos describing how new ideas in animal husbandry are transforming Ethiopian incomes, animal pastures and livestock livelihoods. Misku’s Story A 40-year old woman from central-western Ethiopia transforms her family’s life through...

Sustainable livestock systems
Judy Kimani

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith promotes ‘low-carbon’ and ‘climate-smart cows’ at the Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue, in Rwanda

ILRI news (Clockwise from top left): Students visit ILRI’s Mazingira Centre to learn about livestock and environment research (photo credit: ILRI/Dorine Odongo); s ome of the state-of-the-art greenhouse gas equipment at Mazingira Centre (ILRI/Susan MacMillan); g reenhouse gas emission chambers in...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

Karnataka State government-CGIAR livestock technologies initiative benefits farmers

(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, scientific consultant, ILRI South Asia). Under the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)-led Government of Karnataka-CGIAR initiative that aims at demonstrating proven livestock technologies for scaling, a series...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

Karnataka State government–CGIAR livestock technologies initiative benefits farmers

(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, a consultant scientist with ILRI in South Asia.) An International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)-led Government of Karnataka–CGIAR initiative is demonstrating proven livestock technologies for scaling in Karnataka. The...