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ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

A ‘Livestock Master Plan’ is MISSION CRITICAL for India’s state of Bihar

Shama Khatoon, outside her goat shed in Bihar, is a widow supporting her family through goat rearing (photo via Aga Khan Development Network/Mansi Midha). The article is written by Steve Staal, leader of ILRI’s Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods program. This is a banner year for the livestock...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog
Beamlak Tesfaye

ILRI’s Tadelle Dessie appointed adjunct professor at Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar University

Tadelle Dessie of ILRI has received awards for his outstanding contribution in chicken breed improvement and capacity building in Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). Tadelle Dessie, senior scientist and program leader for the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project of the...

ILRI News
Judy Kimani

Tanzania launches USD596 million livestock master plan

Tanzania minister for livestock and fisheries, Luhaga Mpina (right), receives a copy of the Tanzania livestock master plan from Barry Shapiro, senior livestock development advisor at ILRI (photo credit: Eveline Massam/IITA). Tanzania’s livestock sector is set for a major boost following the...

ILRI clippings
Susan MacMillan

Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies

Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow Su Kahumbu is one of Kenya’s most authoritative and sustainable farmers. She is the brains behind two social enterprises: ‘Green Dreams TECH Ltd’, an organic farm and service connecting Kenya’s small-...

ILRI News
Judy Kimani

Shaping the future of livestock in Kenya

Participants of the national multi-stakeholder consultation in Nairobi (photo credit: ILRI/ Wilson Maina). Multiple stakeholders drawn from Kenya’s public and private sectors, academia, research, donors, non-governmental organizations, social movements and community-based organizations as well as...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog
Beamlak Tesfaye

Educational tours to ILRI poultry research facility inspire young students in Ethiopia

Students from Hillside School at the ILRI poultry research facility in Addis Ababa (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led African Chicken Genetics Gains (ACGG) project is now hosting educational tours for students at the poultry research...

ILRI News
Sarah Kasyoka

Momentum builds at UNEA for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) worked with a host of private and public organizations advocating for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists at the fourth biennial United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held 11-15 March in Nairobi this year. The assembly...

AVCD program blog
Meron Mulatu

Bulk milk chilling and pasteurizing plants great opportunity for cooperatives to run as a business

The AVCD project handed over bulk milk chilling and pasteurizing plants to cooperative societies of Kericho, Homa Bay, Kisumu and Makueni counties of Kenya in mid January and March 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Meron Mulatu). The Feed the Future Kenya – Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

Media release: Regional experts join forces to improve smallholder pig sector in Asia and the Pacific

Hanoi, 27 March 2019 – Around 100 leaders, researchers, investors, government, and private sector representatives from 16 countries spanning Asia, the Pacific, Australia and Africa will gather in Hanoi this week to identify solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing the smallholder pig...

Livestock system and environment
Sarah Kasyoka

The Kenya Government declares a pay out of Ksh87 million to cushion 6,000 pastoralists from the effects of drought

Index-Based Livestock Insurance The Government of Kenya, through the State Department of Livestock has announced a payout of Ksh87 million for pastoralists insured under the Kenya Livestock Insurance Program (KLIP). Speaking at a press conference on 7 March 2019 where he declared payouts for the...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

The many gifts of livestock—A view from Kenya

Andrew Tuimur, chief administrative secretary at the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation and a member of the ILRI Board of Trustees (photo credit: ILRI). The following remarks, published last week by Devex during the fourth meeting of the United Nations Environment...

ILRI News
David Aronson

Raising the steaks

Photo credit: African Business Magazine. A new article in African Business Magazine provides a comprehensive overview of the risks and opportunities presented by Africa’s livestock sector and features extensive analysis from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) director general Jimmy...