Tags: animal production

ILRI News on animal production

12 Sep 2019

A few engineering breakthroughs that could (literally) transform Africa’s dairy systems and food security

Antigen biosensor detector on a UV LASER ablated gold coated glass plate (Photo credit: Flickr/Clive Boyd) This article has been written by Steve Kemp In the next 30 years, the world population is expected to reach 10 billion. A big question is if we can feed this many people sustainably. A short...

ILRI News

10 Sep 2019

Paul Karaimu

Harnessing livestock innovations for greater economic good

Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, speaking at GASL 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The rising global demand for livestock-derived foods offers a wealth of new opportunities for transforming the livestock sector into one that is fair as well as sustainable, safe as well...

ILRI clippings

31 Jul 2019

Susan MacMillan

Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Kenya’s livestock sector is primed to grow exponentially over the next three decades and anchor the country’s food sufficiency amid a rapid rise in the human population, a new survey...