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ILRI News on biodiversity

25 Sep 2018

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on farm animal diversity for more sustainable and resilient global food systems

Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), this week made a short presentation at the annual meeting of the Food Forever Initiative held in Wilmington, Delaware, 23–24 Sep 2018. Food Forever is a global partnership to raise awareness on the importance...

ILRI clippings

02 Aug 2018

Susan MacMillan

One-size-fits-all ‘livestock less’ measures will not serve some one billion smallholder livestock farmers and herders

Smallholder dairying in Kenya (photo credit: Accelerated Value Chain Development/Sophie Mbugua). ‘Once again, the debate on sustainable diets and in particular on (not) eating animal-derived products is resurfacing in the media, as illustrated most recently by an article in The Guardian. The paper...

ILRI News

19 Jul 2018

James Stapleton

DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity

Since their introduction to Africa thousands of years ago from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, cattle breeds have gradually adapted to cope with hugely varying environments, from the Sahelian desert to the subhumid tropical forests. These cattle are important sources of meat, milk,...

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Publications on biodiversity

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Published2019

Memory effects of climate and vegetation affecting net ecosystem CO2 fluxes in global forests

Journal Article

Published2018

Assessment of hydrological pathways in East African montane catchments under different land use

Journal Article

Published2018

Diversity analysis and genome-wide association studies of grain shape and eating quality traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) using DArT markers

Journal Article

Published2018

The influence of protection from grazing on Cholistan desert vegetation, Pakistan

Journal Article

Published2018

Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures.

Journal Article

Published2018

Analysis of genetic difference within and between of wild relatives of sorghum in Sudan, using SSRs

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ILRI Projects on biodiversity

Jun 2015May 2019

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in the Serengeti-Mara region, East Africa: Drivers of change, causalities and sustainable management strategies (AfricanBioServices)

Climate change Climate change represents a major threat to global biodiversity and in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, it is apparent as increased variability and irregularity of rainfall. Human population growth Africa harbours the fastest growing human population in the world and the pressure on...