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ILRI News
Paul Karaimu

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

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 to forages...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Paul Karaimu

Optimizing variations of food-feed traits of wheat cultivars to benefit mixed crop-livestock systems in Ethiopia

Scientists have tested bread wheat cultivars released in the Ethiopian highlands to better understand the potential trade-offs between food and fodder traits (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers in Ethiopia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa increasingly depend...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
Mireille Ferrari

Traditional grazing-management practice makes an impact in southern Tunisia

[Written by Mouldi Gamoun, Jutta Werner, and Mounir Louhaichi, ICARDA] Degradation of rangelands is a major global concern, but land degradation processes in the rangelands are poorly understood. This lack of understanding has contributed to poorly-informed interventions and policies that have...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Paul Karaimu

Desho and Napier grasses help Ethiopian farmers produce year-round forage

In Doyogena, Ethiopia, Muluneh has planted Desho grass to conserve soil and feeds his sheep (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). The seventh edition of the Forages for the Future newsletter published in June 2018 features an article on how Desho and Napier grasses are helping smallholders produce...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet

(Left) ILRI Deputy Director General for Biosciences Dieter Schillinger welcomes to ILRI Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Maria Flachsbarth. (Right) ILRI Assistant Director General Shirley Tarawali welcomes to ILRI BMZ Deputy...

ILRI clippings
James Stapleton

Shortages in quality animal feed hinder availability of nutritious animal-source foods

Driven by population growth, urbanization and rising incomes, demand for livestock products in Africa and Asia may increase by 200% by 2030. Increased availability of milk, meat and eggs offers huge opportunities to meet this demand, improve diets and decrease malnourishment, especially among...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog
Alan Duncan

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

The availability of sufficient and adequate feed is one of the most significant constraints to livestock productivity in the tropics. It is an enormous challenge that requires innovation and concerted action towards agreed priority outcomes. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is...

ILRI clippings
Paul Karaimu

Research and awareness raising increase demand for cassava peel-based chicken feeds in Nigeria

Participants in an executive meeting of the Poultry Association of Nigeria in Ibadan, Nigeria, in late March 2018 (photo credit: ILRI/Yinka Olasusi). Hundreds of Nigerian chicken farmers in the southwestern state of Oyo have expressed interest in using cassava mash in poultry feeds. Common animal...

ILRI clippings
Susan MacMillan

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

This and all photos on this page are of members of the Mulkanoor Women’s Dairy Cooperative, located in the Indian state of Telengana, who are participating in an ILRI research project to investigate the feasibility of growing forage plants as a cash crop (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI scientist Michael...

ILRI clippings
Paul Karaimu

Irrigation boosts food security for Africa’s smallholder households

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) project is using irrigation to increase food production in Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania (photo credit: Emmanuel Panyan). A review of a five-year irrigation project in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania shows that all the men and women...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

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

ILRI scientist Michael Blümmel (photo by ILRI/Stevie Mann) and beef cattle in Indonesia consuming straw (photo by ILRI/Jules Mateo). Michael Blümmel , deputy program leader for the Feed and Forage Development program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is lead author on a new...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

‘Legacy Award’ bestowed on Jean Hanson, ILRI’s forage genebank gatekeeper for the last three decades

Artwork from Australian visual artist Sophie Munns. For the last 31 years, Jean Hanson, a British genetic resources specialist by training, has managed and helped others to manage forage genetic resources research at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,...