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Creative (graphic) facilitation to support a dairy value chain seminar

What does it take to engage (large) private sector operators, smallholder farmers, knowledge centre specialists and researchers, civil servants and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) meaningfully in conversations around dairy value chains in Africa? Quite simply: good...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

ILRI scientists participate in the African dairy conference

Two senior agricultural economists with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) were among high-profile speakers at the 10th African Dairy Conference and Exhibition held in Nairobi on 24 to 26 September 2014. Isabelle Baltenweck , interim program leader for ILRI’s Livelihoods, Gender...

  • Dorine Odongo
Safe Food Fair Food blog

From (bio)mass to (bio)gas – or: how to efficiently utilize urban slaughter waste

The problem of slaughter waste management and its relevance to public health in Uganda has not yet been described in the literature. Zoonotic pathogens on contaminated carcasses such as E. coli , Salmonella and Cryptosporidium can be directly transmitted to meat handlers and consumers; but they can...

  • Kristina Rösel
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Using choice experiments: Facilitating priority setting in provision of animal health services

The livestock sector is one of the drivers of poverty reduction in developing countries owing to its contribution to agricultural employment, its role in the economic welfare of rural families as well as the nutritional importance of food products of animal origin. Consequently, increasing...

  • Dorine Odongo
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food, Fair Food at Tropentag 2014

Tropentag is a major annual conference on tropical agriculture in Central Europe. This year, to mark 40 years of international livestock research, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a side event at the conference to showcase its work . A poster on the Safe Food, Fair Food...

  • Kristina Rösel
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Gender in research at ILRI: An overview of developments over the last decade

For success in agricultural research for development, it is fundamental to address gender issues along the agricultural value chains. The International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) carries out research that is focused on ‘better lives through livestock’ and recognizes the importance of...

  • Dorine Odongo
Maarifa blog

Sharing ILRI’s research with open access

This week, I was asked by ICRISAT to share some experiences on ‘Open access repositories: Sharing research to the global community’ at a workshop as part of a ‘Capacity Development Program on Appropriate Technologies and Innovative Approaches for Agriculture Knowledge Sharing.’ My main points: open...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Solving gender issue – solving food security

Kathleen Earl Coverson has served as senior gender scientist for the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and currently works as associate director for international programs at the University of Florida. A journalist with The Reporter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, caught up with her...

  • Dorine Odongo
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Let’s break the tapeworm cycle – in (L)Uganda!

During a training session on pig and pork zoonoses in February this year , Peter Mugagga, one of the participants volunteered to organize for the translation of a poster on “How to break the tapeworm cycle” into his mother tongue Luganda, the major language spoken in Uganda by more than 16 million...

  • Kristina Rösel
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Guardian article highlights success of volunteer farmer trainers in East Africa dairy project

An article published this month (5 Aug 2014) in T he Guardian’s farming and food security hub describes how the East Africa Dairy Development ( EADD ) project has successfully worked with volunteer farmer trainers to improve milk production in East Africa. The article explains how dairy farmers in...

  • Dorine Odongo
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Call for papers: policies for gender-equitable participation in dairy value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa

On 21-24 September 2014, the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) together with the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU ( CTA ) will host an African Dairy Value Chain Seminar. The discussions of the four-day event which will be held at the Intercontinental...

  • Dorine Odongo
Maarifa blog

Assessing social learning? Four monitoring specialists provide some answers

Last month, the Climate Change Communication and Social Learning (CCSL) project organized an evidence-gathering workshop to better unpack what social learning is, and particularly how to assess and monitor it. Here, four monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialists who particiapted in the...

  • Ewen Le Borgne