Tags: camels

ILRI News on camels

16 May 2019

Thursday links (16 May 2019)

A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff and partners, compiled by David Aronson. In sharp contrast to most of the gloomy reporting on livestock, this leader from The Economist on global meat-eating...

ILRI clippings

24 Sep 2018

Susan MacMillan

Dairy: A tool to fight poverty—An interview with IFCN’s Torsten Hemme

Niko Pirosmani, Woman Milks a Cow, 1916 (via Wikiart) . Listen to one of three interviewees on a recent BBC broadcast on the topic of dairy and poverty. Having scanned the scientific literature (100 journal articles) on the impact of milk production on reducing poverty, Torsten Hemme, managing...

ILRI clippings

26 Jun 2018

Susan MacMillan

Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?

Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flintan). ‘The debate over whether a vegetarian diet is better for the planet is top of mind for many as news of water scarcity, climate change, and deforestation seem to worsen by the day. Sarah Taber,...