Tags: biodiversity

ILRI News on biodiversity

26 Mar 2021

Nairobi is rapidly losing its green spaces: this could open the door to more diseases

Hundreds of trees have been felled along Nairobi’s Uhuru and Waiyaki highways to make space for a new expressway. CELINE CLERY/AFP via Getty Images Eric Fèvre , University of Liverpool and James Hassell , Yale University There’s been widespread concern in Kenya over the shrinking of green spaces in...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

ILRI clippings

04 Feb 2021

New targets to protect biodiversity must include farmers and agriculture

Photo by MONIRUL BHUIYAN/AFP via Getty Images Anja Gassner , World Agroforestry (ICRAF) ; Philip Dobie , World Agroforestry (ICRAF) , and Terry Sunderland , University of British Columbia The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a treaty that aims to develop national strategies for the...

Anja GassnerGlobal Landscapes Forum science advisor and senior scientist(ICRAF)
Philip DobieSenior fellow(ICRAF)
Terry SunderlandProfessor in the faculty of forestry(University of British Columbia)

ILRI News

13 Oct 2020

International Livestock Research Institute becomes Global Landscapes Forum charter member

(BONN, 12 October 2020) – Over half a billion people in developing countries depend to some extent on farm animals for their livelihoods. Animal-sourced food also plays an important role in nutrition, through providing readily-available proteins and micronutrients. But animal agriculture is also...