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AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

Celebrating Open Access Week 2019 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health

Open Access Week is celebrated globally every year during the last complete week of October. To mark Open Access Week 2019 , we highlight some recent open access research articles authored and co-authored by scientists from the Animal and Human Health program of the International Livestock Research...

Sustainable livestock systems
Judy Kimani

Analysing Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) data to identify pathways towards food security

Originally published on the RHoMIS blog . Our Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) work has led to a unique harmonized database of quantitative information on smallholder livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries (now containing interviews of more than 28,000 households in 31...

ILRI News
David Aronson

ILRI at the Committee on World Food Security

Today, the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) Iain Wright, d eputy director general for research and development–Integrated Sciences, gave a short intervention at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) held at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) headquarters in Rome...

ILRI News
David Aronson

The view from New York

The New Yorker recently ran an article on Impossible Burgers , one of several major corporate-backed initiatives that are touting their animal-food alternatives as reasonably good-tasting, culinary substitutes for beef, chicken, milk and so on, but produced without the problematic harms associated...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor

Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a special World Food Day event at the University of Melbourne on 16 Oct 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Lindsay Falvey, chair of the board of trustees of the International Livestock Research Institute...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

New study explores the role of livestock products for nutrition in the first 1000 days of life

On World Food Day 2019, we highlight a recent article by scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute that summarizes the current state of knowledge on the role of livestock products for nutrition, with emphasis on the first 1000 days of life for individuals living in low-income...

Sustainable livestock systems
Judy Kimani

ILC Rangelands Initiative partners draw attention to rangelands at the UNCCD COP

This blog was first published on the International Land Coalition (ILC) website . By Fiona Flintan In early September 2019, New Delhi, India hosted the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14). The ILC Rangelands Initiative partners and...

ILRI News
Paul Karaimu

Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research

By Saba Ermyas Farmers benefit from ILRI Impact at Scale projects (photo credit: ILRI). Have you heard the saying ‘pilots never fail, pilots never scale’? Unfortunately, research shows that this saying is true most of the time because few pilot projects successfully scale up to sustainable and long...

ILRI News
David Aronson

FAO conference on global hunger to launch

More than 820 million people in the world are hungry today and an additional 1.3 billion suffer from moderate food insecurity, meaning they do not have regular access to nutritious food. Alarmingly, for the third straight year those numbers have risen, despite massive global commitments to reduce...

ILRI News
David Aronson

Reflecting on success

One of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) major success stories in recent years has been the development of an index-based livestock insurance program (IBLI) , which protects livestock keepers in drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands from climate-related losses. The program...

ILRI News
David Aronson

Index-based livestock insurance: Reflecting on success

One of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) major success stories in recent years has been the development of an index-based livestock insurance program (IBLI) , which protects livestock keepers in drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands from climate-related losses. The program...

ILRI clippings
Susan MacMillan

CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia

Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Agricultural development in Somalia—an important commercial centre in antiquity that in 1991 became stateless and suffered more than two decades of conflict and, more recently, devastating drought—is...