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ILRI News on agriculture

15 Aug 2019

US ambassador to Mali visits communities in Sikasso region supported by an ILRI-led livestock technology scaling project

Written by Assoumane Maiga Aoussata Coulibaly (left) talking to Dennis Haskins, US Ambassador to Mali (in dark jacket) and his delegation about business and job opportunities created by the Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (photo credit: ILRI/Amadou Nouh Saw). On 25 July...

Sustainable livestock systems

31 Jul 2019

Judy Kimani

Linking research-for-development and community needs in the climate-smart livestock systems project

This blog was written by Lucy Njuguna, a Graduate Fellow with the Sustainable Livestock Systems Program. In development work, there is often concern that external interventions can impose unintended costs on communities, especially when there is little or no consultation with the communities on...

ILRI News

24 Jul 2019

David Aronson

One question, two answers: What happens when different methodologies produce different results?

The case of women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania By Alessandra Galiè , senior gender scientist, ILRI In our research on livestock for better livelihoods we often argue for mixed-method approaches: Combining quantitative and qualitative research...

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Publications on agriculture

Journal Article

Published2019

Correlated non-classical measurement errors, ‘Second best’ policy inference, and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture

Journal Article

Published2019

Women's agency in changing contexts: A case study of innovation processes in Western Kenya

Journal Article

Published2019

Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse

Journal Article

Published2019

Using “theory of change” to improve agricultural research: Recent experience from Tanzania

Journal Article

Published2018

Is agricultural intensification a growing health concern? Perceptions from waste management stakeholders in Vietnam

Poster

Published2019

Africa RISING: Innovation for development highlights

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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...