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Livestock system and environment
Sarah Kasyoka

New program to enhance climate-smart livestock systems launched in Uganda

Uganda’s agricultural sector contributes significantly to both incomes and direct availability of food in the country. It is also a major contributor to economic growth through provision of raw materials for agro-industries, job opportunities and foreign exchange. Agriculture contributes to about...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

ILRI’s support for South-South partnership to improve food safety in Asia

Mutual learning and partnership among developing countries in Asia can help address alarming food safety issues The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) scientists are scaling up lessons of food safety research and capacity development originally developed in Vietnam to neighbouring...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

OiE posters on African swine fever now available in Vietnamese

A new set of posters on African swine fever developed by the World Organisation for Animal Health ( OiE ) is now available in Vietnamese. The 4 posters, which can be downloaded and printed, describe African swine fever and the biosecurity measures that can be used to prevent this incurable disease...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Paul Karaimu

New insights into the diversity of Napier grass: More productivity in fully irrigated systems

ILRI news Napier grass growing in the ILRI field gene bank in Ziway, Ethiopia (photo credit: Shawn Landersz/Global Crop Diversity Trust). Napier grass commonly referred to as elephant grass, or Uganda grass and scientifically known as Cenchrus purpureus , is one of the most important fodder crops...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog
Ewen Le Borgne

Building the business case for smallholder poultry development (part 2): Imagining ‘ACGG+’

In the course of 2018, the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project team held an important meeting in Arusha, Tanzania (May 23-24) in order to capture the ‘business case’ for smallholder poultry development at large, building upon key lessons from ACGG so far, and looking into options for a...

Africa RISING feed
Paul Karaimu

Not just technology dissemination: the multiple dimensions of scaling initiatives of Africa RISING in sustainable intensification

Written by Million Gebreyes, Kindu Mekonnen, Peter Thorne, Abera Adie A word cloud of Africa RISING partners in Ethiopia (photo credit: authors). The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands operates in four regions of Ethiopia. The project, in the first phase, focused more on action...

Livestock system and environment
Sarah Kasyoka

Positive deviance: Uncovering superior farming practices in Tanzania

Originally posted on the RHoMIS blog . Around the world, agricultural development organizations often struggle with surprisingly weak adoption of innovations that had previously been successful at other places. If all goes well, the smallholder farmers addressed by a development program readily...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

More research on African swine fever is urgently needed: No cure, no vaccine and no treatment yet exists for this lethal pig disease

ILRI news Pigs at the Drestry Farm Industry commercial farm in Asia (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease affecting domestic and wild pigs. It kills nearly 100% of the pigs it infects. The good news is that the African swine fever virus does not...

Safe Food Fair Food blog
Kristina Rösel

Vacancy for a researcher on quantitative microbiological risk assessment

We are looking for a researcher who is a motivated team player with a great interest in the quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA) and who has an affinity with behaviour of foodborne pathogens and cost-benefit analysis. This project is centred around the poultry and fresh vegetables...

IBLI blog
policyacademic

Enhancing access to information for women in pastoral areas

A recent CTA workshop on ‘making next-generation ACP agriculture work for women’ identified seven critical success factors to enable women to truly benefit from agriculture: access by women to investment and finance, access to markets, skills support, networking and capacity development, access to...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog
Ewen Le Borgne

Building the business case for smallholder poultry development (part 1): Taking stock of ACGG ‘1’

In the course of 2018, the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project team held an important meeting in Arusha, Tanzania (23-24 May) in order to capture the ‘business case’ for smallholder poultry development at large, building upon key lessons from ACGG so far, and looking into options for a...

Africa RISING feed
Jonathan Odhong

Anecdotes of sustainable intensification (video)

Supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the US government’s Feed the Future initiative, the Africa RISING project is working to create opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainable intensified...