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ILRI News on animal production

18 Apr 2019

A ‘Livestock Master Plan’ is MISSION CRITICAL for India’s state of Bihar

Shama Khatoon, outside her goat shed in Bihar, is a widow supporting her family through goat rearing (photo via Aga Khan Development Network/Mansi Midha). The article is written by Steve Staal, leader of ILRI’s Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods program. This is a banner year for the livestock...

ILRI News

10 Apr 2019

Judy Kimani

Tanzania launches USD596 million livestock master plan

Tanzania minister for livestock and fisheries, Luhaga Mpina (right), receives a copy of the Tanzania livestock master plan from Barry Shapiro, senior livestock development advisor at ILRI (photo credit: Eveline Massam/IITA). Tanzania’s livestock sector is set for a major boost following the...

ILRI News

22 Dec 2018

Susan MacMillan

African livestock: A terrible thing to waste

Six Buck, lino print by San/Bushman artist Flai Shipipa via Pinterest. Care about ‘sustainable agriculture’ in Africa? Then you should care about livestock. Take a look at the evidence as reported earlier this year in a scientific paper published by researchers at the International Livestock...

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