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ILRI News
David Aronson

Climate change already damaging children’s health, says new Lancet report

Climate change is already damaging the health of the world’s children and is set to shape the well-being of an entire generation unless the world meets Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to ‘well below’ 2 degrees Celsius, according to a major new report published in The Lancet . In Kenya, and...

Sustainable livestock systems
Sarah Kasyoka

The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey set to announce major updates in 2020

The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) team has been busy working on improvements to make the various elements of the tool more coherent. These upgrades, which are set to go live in January 2020 will streamline the tool making access easier for users. Read this article which was...

ILRI News
David Aronson

Livestock in context: A plea for intellectual rigor and collegial disagreement

Photo credit: ©IFPRI/David Popham Lawrence Haddad, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and 2018 World Food Prize co-winner, gave two presentations at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference held 11-13 November in Brisbane, Australia. The first, titled Let...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

ILRI and China’s Nanjing Agricultural University commit to deepen collaboration for livestock research and capacity development

Chancellor Chen Ligen of Nanjing Agricultural University with ILRI director general Jimmy Smith (photo credit: ILRI). Over the past two months International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) have had a number of engagements between senior managers and...

ILRI clippings
Susan MacMillan

Deadline for submitting abstracts for the Joint International Grassland/Rangeland Congress extended to 23 Dec 2019

The deadline for submissions for papers and posters for the Joint International Grassland and International Rangeland Congress, to be held 24–30 Oct 2020, in Nairobi, Kenya, has been extended to 23rd December 2019. Submit your abstracts for posters and oral presentations and proposals for...

ILRI clippings
David Aronson

Tropical agriculture conference takes unexpected turn: Toward optimism

The future of livestock in the developing world was one of the principal themes at the third International Tropical Agriculture (TropAg) Conference held from 11-13 November 2019 in Brisbane, Australia. The conference focused on the challenge of feeding the world’s ever-growing population, which is...

ILRI clippings
David Aronson

Thursday Links (October 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. Isabelle Baltenweck , an agricultural economist leading the Policies,...

ILRI News
David Aronson

Towards sustainable food system transformations in the Global South

The world is just eleven harvests away from 2030, but for hundreds of millions of people the goal of ending hunger set forth in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) remains as loftily elusive as ever. What can be done to put the developing world on the right track? A side event...

ILRI News
David Aronson

ILRI at the Committee on World Food Security

Today, the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) Iain Wright, deputy 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
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...

Maarifa blog
Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)

Supporting open research: ILRI’s knowledge management approach

ILRI was awarded the 2019 International Knowledge Management Award (photo credit: ILRI/Job Mainye). Last week, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) was awarded the 2019 International Knowledge Management Award at a ceremony held in Nairobi, Kenya. The following day Peter Ballantyne...