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African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Opportunities offered by smallholder chicken farming in Africa

Guèye (2000) writes that 85% of rural households in sub-Saharan Africa keep chickens or other types of poultry. This is a huge proportion of these populations, but what is the value of smallholder chicken production, socially and economically? Photo from Flickr by USAID. Low-input farming: Chicken...

  • hrollings
AVCD program blog

Increasing access to seed potato: Decentralized seed multiplication for small scale farmers across Kenya

Across Kenya, potato farmers are embracing innovations that could help increase their food production and eventually improve the nutritional status of their households. Potato a must in most kenyan diets yet good quality seed is scarce for today’s potato farmer. Access to quality seed potato is the...

  • Muthoni Njiru
AVCD program blog

Forging multi-sectoral partnerships to tackle malnutrition in Kenya

Nutritionists and Behaviour Change Communications Specialists at an AVCD Nutrition Strategy Workshop in Kenya. Photo: S.Mungai (ILRI) Exploring how best to approach multi-sectoral collaboration and how to develop a comprehensive, robust nutrition strategy that is in line with the priorities of the...

  • christinewangarimutwiri
AVCD program blog

Why Root Crops?

If you want to read the story full screen click here. CIP Source: Feed the Future – Kenya Accelerated Value Chain Development Program

  • Muthoni Njiru
AgHealth blog

Apocalyptic numbers: Antibiotic resistance as the classic ‘One Health’ (and classic ‘One World’) planetary issue

ILRI news Depicted in this watercoloured etching, The Ancient of Days, by William Blake , is Urizen, a figure that for Blake embodied reason and law. Urizen’s outstretched hand holds a compass over the darker void below, representing an event in the Book of Proverbs, ‘when he set a compass upon the...

AgHealth blog

Connecting the dots: Actionable recommendations towards safer pork and leafy vegetables in Vietnam

ILRI Asia The consultation workshop towards safer pork and vegetables in Vietnam was held on 27 July 2016 in Hanoi (photo credit: ILRI). Responsiveness to citizens’ needs and demands is an indicator of good governance and public service. In Vietnam, the government and development partners including...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Designing for gender equality

Increasing agricultural productivity through gender equality. Just one of the eleven positive outcomes which can arise through the establishment of a more equal society. In the aim of illustrating the importance of gender equality, capacity development staff at the International Livestock Research...

  • ILRI Communications
AVCD program blog

New value chain program using research technologies and innovations to improve livelihoods across Kenya

The Feed the Future Kenya Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) Program focuses on the livestock, dairy and staple crop (root crops and drought-tolerant crops) value chains, covering 21 counties in Kenya. In line with the Kenya Feed the Future multi-year strategy, AVCD will prioritize...

  • christinewangarimutwiri
African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Seeking new approaches for increasing smallholder chicken productivity in Africa

Most smallholder chicken production projects that have taken place over the last few decades in Africa have focused on controlling diseases, reducing predation and mortality through vaccination campaigns, controlling internal and external parasites, improving housing, feeding and management of the...

  • hrollings
African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Voices on chicken genetics: Using the best science to improve chickens breeds in Africa

Olivier Hanotte, scientific advisor for ACGG at ILRI (photo credit: ILRI) Olivier Hanotte, scientific advisor at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), introduces himself and his work with the program. It is one of a series of portraits of key people in Africa Chicken Genetic Gains...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
AVCD program blog

Healthy animals, healthy returns: Improving pastoralists’ livelihoods in Kenya

Sustainable livestock systems Goats play an important role in supporting the livelihoods of livestock keepers in Kenya, particularly among pastoralists in the country’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Sale of meat and milk from the small ruminants also contributes substantially to Kenya’s economy...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Voices on chicken genetics: Building capacity to help Nigeria’s farmers gain from chicken

Oladeji Bamidele, national project coordinator, ACGG Nigeria (photo credit: O. Bamidele). Oladeji Bamidele, national project coordinator in the Nigeria country team, introduces himself and his work with the program. It is one of a series of portraits of key people in African Chicken Genetic Gains (...

  • Ewen Le Borgne