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ILRI News on agriculture

24 Sep 2020

‘To turn the unknown into the known’: Inside the global effort to bring the fight to viruses

Dennis Carroll , chair of the Global Virome Project Leadership Board, an ambitious global effort to develop a comprehensive database of viruses and detect and track down the planet’s unknown and emerging viral threats, spoke with Jimmy Smith , the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

agriculture

ILRI News

22 Sep 2020

No laughing matter: Livestock enclosures in Africa are an underestimated source of the greenhouse gas N2O

An international team of scientists have now identified previously unknown sources of N2O in sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is home to about a quarter of the world’s cattle, goats and sheep—a share that is expected to grow considerably in coming decades. Most of these livestock live in semi-...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

agriculture

ILRI News

18 Sep 2020

USAID-funded Regional Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab to be based in Nairobi, Kenya

Livestock moving back to the villages during a storm, Oromia, Ethiopia, (photo credits: ILRI/ Camille Hanotte) A 5-year, USD6-million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) , with an opportunity to grow to $16 million, will develop a regional Feed the Future...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

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Publications on agriculture

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A chicken production intervention and additional nutrition behavior change component increased child growth in Ethiopia: A cluster-randomized trial

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Moving health to the heart of agri-food policies; mitigating risk from our food systems

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Farm diversification in the central highlands of Ethiopia: Patterns determinants and its effect on household income

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Mitigating health risks in sustainable agricultural intensification

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Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

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The extent and structure of peri-urban smallholder dairy farming in five cities in India

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ILRI Projects on agriculture

Jan 2020Dec 2023

Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)

Livestock provides income and employment to farmers, agricultural service providers and others involved in the value chain. Zimbabwe’s livestock production system is characterized by small-scale subsistence farming. Despite the importance of livestock to rural livelihoods, productivity remains low...

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...