News Archive

AVCD program blog
ronohnathan

The business in seed potato: New technology spurs hope for better incomes

The Feed the Future Kenya Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers, sought to harness the technologies and innovations within the research system ‘to sustainably reduce poverty and hunger in Kenya with the objective of increasing inclusive...

Africa RISING feed
Africa RISING communications

Mechanized maize shelling transforms lives in rural Tanzania

Kassim Lebora with his maize shelling machine (photo credit: Audifas Gasper/IITA). Kassim Lebora started off as an ordinary member of a farmers’ group in Dahinda village, Kanga Ward in Tanzania’s Mvomero District. Little did he know that joining the group would lead to starting a business that...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

Better breeds for more milk: ​African dairy genetics gains bulls and cows exhibition

Role of African Dairy Genetics Gains platform (Artwork/ILRI: Eric Ouma, Ekta Patel) Today, thirty-five farmers and over fifty representatives from the Tanzanian government including Hon. Luhaga Mpina, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, Tanzania, and Dr. Eligy Mussa Shirima, Director General of...

ILRI News
David Aronson

Advocating for livestock, say its supporters, requires stronger narratives as well as robust evidence

Mary Nzomo, the chair of Kenya’s Agriculture County Executive Committee Members Caucus, holding the microphone, flanked by Zena Habtewold Biru and Isabelle Baltenweck. (Photo credit: David Aronson/ILRI) The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and African Union Commission sponsored a...

Sustainable livestock systems
Sarah Kasyoka

Third edition of the Sustainable Rangeland Management project newsletter now available

For nearly 10 years, the Sustainable Rangeland Management Project has been working with local and national authorities in Tanzania to secure rangelands for pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and smallholder farmers through joint village land use planning and land certification including the provision...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

Africa’s animal genetic resources – the wealth within

Ankole cattle from southwestern Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Today, more than a hundred key partners in African livestock development, including African ministers, senior policymakers and other dignitaries, have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch new and notable products that improve...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods
Judy Kimani

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...

ILRI clippings
Meron Mulatu

Paving the way for collaboration: ILRI board members visit goat breeding program and Arba Minch University in Ethiopia

On 11 May 2019, two members of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Board of Trustees, Jing Zhu and Chanda Nimbkar, and two scientists, Olivier Hanotte of ILRI and Aynalem Haile from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), visited a community-...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2018 annual report

The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) has published its 2018 annual report , highlighting program activities and research results from across A4NH’s five research flagships and five focus countries. These include: research into consumer choices, motives and...

Safe Food Fair Food blog
Kristina Rösel

Why food safety in Africa’s informal markets must be driven by consumers

Opinion piece by Arie Havelaar , University of Florida and Ashagrie Zewdu Woldegiorgis , Addis Ababa University . This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article published on #WorldFoodSafetyDay. @gatesfoundation, @DFIDAgResearch and @...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

Boosting Uganda’s investments in livestock development ‘healthy animals for healthy food and healthy people’

Field visits to Kiruhura District, Uganda [photo credit: ILRI/Sonja Leitner] Today, policymakers, researchers and academics, donors, civil society, as well as government and private sector representatives from Uganda, Kenya and Germany meet to boost investment in Uganda’s livestock. Around 70% of...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

Boosting Uganda’s investments in livestock development – healthy animals for healthy food and healthy people

Field visits to Kiruhura District, Uganda [photo credit: ILRI/Sonja Leitner] Today, policymakers, researchers and academics, donors, civil society, as well as government and private sector representatives from Uganda, Kenya and Germany meet to boost investment in Uganda’s livestock. Around 70% of...