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Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

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...

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Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

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

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...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

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...

ILRI News

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

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...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

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

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

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...

  • James Stapleton
Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

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

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

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...