Voices from the field: Using multimedia to tell livestock stories

Screenshot of one of the ILRI photofilms In 2010 the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) started making photofilms to capture event highlights and to tell stories about people who depend on livestock for their livelihoods, food, income and cropping. What are photofilms? A photofilm...

Social learning and climate change: CGIAR and partners in the (local) decision-making whirlwind

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security ( CCAFS ) last week convened a workshop on communication and social learning in climate change. How did we tackle to challenge of facilitating a ‘social learning’ process with a room full of facilitators and communicators?...

Getting the right content for ICTs in India

A new IFPRI discussion paper authored by Claire Glendenning (IFPRI) and Pier-Paolo Ficarelli (ILRI) examines content development and management processes occurring in six well-known ICT projects in Indian agriculture. Though there are differences in scale and mechanisms of delivery and feedback,...

Goats and Trees: 10 weeks as a KMIS intern at ILRI, Addis Ababa

On 26 January 2012, Kara Brown travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to begin a 10-week internship with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Knowledge Management & Information Services (KMIS). Here she reflects on her days in Addis Ababa – the ideas were initially shared with ILRI...

Second phase of the Safe Food, Fair Food project gets underway

Delia Grace introduces the participants of the Safe Food, Fair Food 2 inception workshop to ILRI staff at Friday Morning Coffee (photo credit: ILRI/Kristina Rösel). On 12–13 April 2012, the Nairobi campus of the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) hosted an inception meeting for the...

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