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ILRI News on agriculture

19 Dec 2019

Thursday Links (November/December)

A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) staff and partners, compiled by David Aronson. (This is a dual month issue of Thursday Links in anticipation of the...

ILRI clippings

19 Dec 2019

David Aronson

Thursday Links (November/December 2019)

ILRI News

18 Dec 2019

David Aronson

‘So what exactly are you researching anyway?’

A ‘pitching’ challenge at ILRI helps young scientists explain what they do—and why it matters—to inquisitive friends, donors and policymakers From left: Laura Cramer of Wageningen University; Titus Mutwiri of Jomo Kenyatta University; Daniel Korir of the University of Melbourne; and ILRI head of...

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Publications on agriculture

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Identifying the precursors of vulnerability in agricultural value chains: A system dynamics approach

Journal Article

Published2019

Genome sequence of striga asiatica provides insight into the evolution of plant parasitism

Journal Article

Published2020

Genetic variation for grain yield, straw yield and straw quality traits in 132 diverse rice varieties released for different ecologies such as upland, lowland, irrigated and salinity prone areas in India

Journal Article

Published2019

Investigation of fifteen popular and widely grown Indian rice varieties for variations in straw fodder traits and grain-straw relationships

News Item

Published2019

A tool developed by ILRI to help researchers monitor progress of various agricultural interventions towards climate change adaptation and mitigation is becoming widely adopted

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Published2019

Index will improve the targeting of interventions in livestock to benefit women

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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...