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Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Alan Duncan

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) – new developments

G-FEAST – a gendered version of FEAST Feeding cows; Tana River watershed, Kenya; Credit Georgina Smith CIAT Feeding livestock involves multiple tasks including planting, weeding and harvesting of forages, collecting and storing crop residues and purchasing of concentrate feeds. In every farming...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

An ILRI developed feed constraint decision making tool, FEAST, applies gender awareness

A workshop in Dehra Dun, India, to develop a tool for feed technology screening and prioritization (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Seven years ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) developed a decision-making...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

ILRI develops a feed constraint decision making tool, G-FEAST

A workshop in Dehra Dun, India, to develop a tool for feed technology screening and prioritization (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Seven years ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) developed a decision-making...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

ILRI develops a feed constraint decision-making tool, G-FEAST

A workshop in Dehra Dun, India, to develop a tool for feed technology screening and prioritization (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Seven years ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) developed a decision-making...

ILRI clippings
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...

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...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Paul Karaimu

Irrigated forages improve livestock productivity and livelihoods in Ethiopia

By Aberra Adie and Michael Blummel Despite having Africa’s largest livestock population, Ethiopia has not realized the full benefits from the sector due to low animal productivity which is attributed to many factors, the foremost being poor quality and inadequate feed resources. Researchers in the...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
ILRI Communications

FeedLink – to link fodder surplus-deficit regions

Innovation that helped to convert wasteland grass into enriched silage after value addition and densification. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is one of the CGIAR partners of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)-led Bhoo Samrudhi...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
Mireille Ferrari

Q&A: Can we change course on the global livestock feed industry’s environmental impact?

During the dry season in Tanzania, cows on this smallholder farm are fed maize stover–post-harvest leftover leaves, stalks and cobs. In developing countries, livestock are largely fed human inedible foodstuffs such as crop residues and other agri-byproducts. Photo ILRI/Brigitte L. Maass GENEVA,...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Paul Karaimu

Animal nutrition approaches to profitable livestock farming and sustainable livelihoods

A smallholder livestock farmer in India. Animal feeding and nutrition deserves greater attention as a critical discipline in addressing the environmental impacts of animal-sourced foods production (photo credit: ILRI). Contributing about 40% of protein in human diets globally and more than 50% in...

ILRI Asia blog
Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)

Transforming livelihoods in South Asia through sustainable livestock research and development

On 13 and 14 November 2018, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) convened a regional workshop with partners from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Together with ILRI senior staff and scientists, participants from public and private institutions reviewed country development...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Paul Karaimu

Thirty percent of ILRI genebank collections now safely duplicated at the global seed vault in Norway

ILRI news Alieu Sartie, ILRI genebank manager (right) and technician Solomon Fikre checking forage seed samples before delivery to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (photo credit:ILRI/Lei Sun). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is home to the world’s only genebank dedicated wholly...