Tags: animal production

ILRI News on animal production

12 Jun 2019

Africa’s animal genetic resources – the wealth within

Ankole cattle from southwestern Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Today, more than a hundred key partners in African livestock development, including African ministers, senior policymakers and other dignitaries, have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch new and notable products that improve...

ILRI clippings

17 May 2019

Beamlak Tesfaye

New project to strengthen veterinary service delivery in Ethiopia

The Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development (HEARD) project inception workshop was held 29 March 2019 at ILRI in Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). A new four-year (2019-2022) European Union-funded project known as Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development (HEARD) has...

ILRI clippings

08 May 2019

Susan MacMillan

On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...