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ILRI News on agriculture

28 Feb 2020

Livestock and sustainable development: Not so strange bedfellows

A week ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the University of Edinburgh’s Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Security hosted a public seminar exploring how and why livestock matter as we strive to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ILRI’s Michael Victor...

ILRI News

17 Feb 2020

David Aronson

ILRI’s Tarawali to speak on livestock and sustainable development at Edinburgh

Shirley Tarawali , assistant director general for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), will be speaking on the role of livestock in sustainable development at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security in Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 4 pm local...

ILRI News

14 Feb 2020

Susan MacMillan

A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age

Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey, data from 13,310 farm households in 21 countries). Out this week is the first public release of a huge dataset generated by recent surveys of more than 13,000 households...

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Publications on agriculture

Presentation

Published2019

Uganda pig value chain scaling workshop: Summary and next steps

Report

Published2020

Gendered assessment of livestock feeding system in northern and southern Burkina Faso

Working Paper

Published2019

Livestock and water in developing countries

Brochure

Published2019

Kapiti Research Station: A livestock, environmental and agricultural research station in southeastern Kenya

Poster

Published2019

Alternative to antibiotic in pig production: A nanosilver use trial

Report

Published2019

Livestock feed resources in West African Sahel: A review

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ILRI Projects on agriculture

Agriculture to nutrition Ethiopia project

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) project seeks to help the African continent broaden its agricultural focus from ‘eating for hunger’ to ‘eating for health’. It focuses on how agriculture can deliver positive nutrition outcomes for smallholder...

Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP)

The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) is jointly led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to better understand gender and asset dynamics in agricultural development programs. GAAP core team members works...