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Shortages in quality animal feed hinder availability of nutritious animal-...

Driven by population growth, urbanization and rising incomes, demand for livestock products in Africa and Asia may increase by 200% by 2030....

ILRI clippings, Jul/2018

Help shape a feed and forage strategy for ILRI – Your inputs needed

Contribute to the development of an ILRI strategy on feed and forage research for development. Continue reading →

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Jun/2018

Research and awareness raising increase demand for cassava peel-based chicken...

Hundreds of Nigerian chicken farmers in the southwestern state of Oyo have expressed interest in using cassava mash in poultry feeds. In two meetings...

ILRI clippings, Apr/2018

Investigating fodder as a cash crop—a micro-enterprise for Indian dairy women

ILRI is working with small-scale women dairy producers who are members of a large women's dairy cooperative in the semi-arid Telengana state of India...

ILRI clippings, Mar/2018

Irrigation boosts food security for Africa’s smallholder households

Findings from a review of a five-year irrigation project in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania show that all the men and women farmers who had adopted...

ILRI clippings, Mar/2018

Cereal straws and stovers for sustainable livestock futures: When crop biomass...

Michael Blümmel, deputy program leader for the Feed and Forage Development program at ILRI, is lead author on a new paper that explores the big...

ILRI news blog, Feb/2018

‘Legacy Award’ bestowed on Jean Hanson, ILRI’s forage genebank gatekeeper for...

Along with six other distinguished scientists, Hanson today, 25 Feb 2018, received an inaugural 'Legacy Award' from the Global Crop Diversity Trust...

ILRI news blog, Feb/2018

Improving the yield and quality of sorghum forage for livestock feeding

Scientists from the Program have been conducting trials in India to improve the yield and quality of sorghum forage for livestock feeding. Continue...

Livestock agri food systems, Feb/2018

Better livestock feeding to increase productivity and boost food security in...

A new research-for-development initiative is helping smallholder farmers in southern Malawi increase the productivity of their livestock and crops to...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Jan/2018

Gates Foundation grants Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems...

The University of Florida has been awarded USD8.7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund livestock research over the next five...

ILRI news blog, Jan/2018

Better feed for cows benefits dairy farmers in India and Tanzania

The work of the MilkIT project to enhance dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Jul/2017

Sunn hemp enhances crop and livestock yields in Zimbabwe

An online article in Africa Business Magazine explains how Zimbabwe’s small-scale mixed crop-livestock farmers are benefiting from cultivating sunn...

ILRI clippings, Jun/2017

Innovative cassava peels processing factories launched in Nigeria

New factories that will transform cassava peels into high-quality feed for livestock have been launched in Nigeria. A prototype cassava peel...

ILRI clippings, Jun/2017

India’s Odisha State and ILRI join forces to improve livestock feeding and...

A three-year ILRI-Odisha State project, ‘Feed and Fodder Production in Different Agro-Climatic Zones and its Utilization for Livestock of Odisha,’...

ILRI news blog, Jun/2017

Creating a science hub in Ethiopia

With the opening of the latest high-tech forage genebank and bioscience research facilities, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in...

ILRI news blog, Apr/2017

ILRI opens state-of-the-art genebank and bioscience facilities in Ethiopia

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) officially opens state-of-the-art facilities for genebank and bioscience research on 24 April...

ILRI news blog, Apr/2017

FEAST feed intervention tech sheets

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) helps us to understand how local livestock are kept and fed. Standardized data visualizations give a good overview...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Feb/2017

Livestock feeds and forages – highlights from ILRI’s corporate report 2015–2016

The experience of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partner scientists in 2015–2016 shows the positive benefits of...

ILRI news blog, Feb/2017

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) – new developments

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) helps us to understand how local livestock are kept and fed. Standardized data visualizations give a good overview...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Feb/2017

Innovation platforms for dairy development in India and Tanzania

Multi-stakeholder innovation platforms were set up at different levels as part of the milkIT project, resulting in more milk sales, more interactions...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Sep/2016

Smallholder dairying: better marketing or better feeding – which comes first?

The milkIT project hypothesis was that improvements in milk markets would lead to increased productivity by farmers. This video explains the...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Aug/2016

Working out how to improve livestock feeding: The FEAST feed assessment tool

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) was one of the key tools used in the milkIT project to assess local feed resource availability and use, guiding...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Aug/2016

Female dairy farmers laid the foundation for a village-based ryegrass seed...

Rye grasses are widely grown cool season grasses that are better suited and have greater agronomic potential in the northern mountainous regions of...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog, Aug/2016

Chris Jones joins ILRI as program leader for feed and forages bioscience

Chris Jones joined the Feed and Forage Biosciences Program this week as program leader based in Addis Ababa. Continue reading →

ILRI BioSciences, Aug/2015