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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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Susan MacMillan

Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020

Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Kenya State Department of Livestock within the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries & Irrigation (MALFI) are organizing next year’s Joint 24th International Grasslands and International Rangelands Congress in...

Sustainable livestock systems
Judy Kimani

#ThrowbackThursday Video—Sweetpotato recipe for silage success

East Africans are serving up dual-purpose sweetpotatoes on their family tables and in their animal troughs Check out these English and Swahili instructional films on how to prepare and store silage made of sweetpotato vines for a cheap, nutritious and long-lasting feed for your dairy cows. Here’s...

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Susan MacMillan

Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Kenya’s livestock sector is primed to grow exponentially over the next three decades and anchor the country’s food sufficiency amid a rapid rise in the human population, a new survey...

Sustainable livestock systems
Judy Kimani

Linking research-for-development and community needs in the climate-smart livestock systems project

This blog was written by Lucy Njuguna, a Graduate Fellow with the Sustainable Livestock Systems Program. In development work, there is often concern that external interventions can impose unintended costs on communities, especially when there is little or no consultation with the communities on...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

The Battle to Curb Swine Fever in Southeast Asia

(This post was written by Preeti Jha and originally posted on the Diplomat Magazine in which she interviewed Fred Unger and Hu Suk Lee, scientists at ILRI Hanoi office) ‘Some 3 million pigs have been slaughtered in Vietnam since African swine fever was detected in February, making Vietnam the first...