Tags: crop-livestock

ILRI News on crop-livestock

15 Oct 2019

Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research

By Saba Ermyas Farmers benefit from ILRI Impact at Scale projects (photo credit: ILRI). Have you heard the saying ‘pilots never fail, pilots never scale’? Unfortunately, research shows that this saying is true most of the time because few pilot projects successfully scale up to sustainable and long...

ILRI News

30 Sep 2019

Ekta Patel

ILRI develops a feed constraint decision making tool, G-FEAST

A workshop in Dehra Dun, India, to develop a tool for feed technology screening and prioritization (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Seven years ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) developed a decision-making...

ILRI News

30 Sep 2019

Ekta Patel

ILRI develops a feed constraint decision-making tool, G-FEAST

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Publications on crop-livestock

Conference Paper

Published2019

Year round feed and fodder availability in smallholder dairy farms across high and low altitude areas in Eastern Africa

Journal Article

Published2019

A genome-wide association study approach to the identification of candidate genes underlying agronomic traits in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

Journal Article

Published2019

Opportunities for wheat cultivars with superior straw quality traits targeting the semi-arid tropics

Journal Article

Published2019

Embracing whole plant optimization of rice and wheat to meet the growing demand for food and feed

Journal Article

Published2019

Variations in straw fodder quality and grain–straw relationships in a mapping population of 287 diverse spring wheat lines

Journal Article

Published2020

Developing ratoon rice as forage in subtropical and temperate areas

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ILRI Projects on crop-livestock

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Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches

Project goal The overall goal of the project is to improve pastoral livelihoods through sustainable market systems. The project aims to promote pastoral livelihoods diversification, facilitate robust markets for livestock and livestock products and enhance consolidation of knowledge base to enhance...

Using system analysis and modeling tools to develop improved feeding strategies for small-scale crop-livestock farmers in Southeast Asia

Project Objectives/Goals: The project will aim at enhancing farm feed resources by optimizing the contribution of sweet potato, legumes and other feed sources to year-round feed availability, livestock productivity and household income. Outputs: 1.Novel pig feeding systems based on sweet potato, forage legumes and other feed sources toincrease feed availability, livestock productivity and household income, under the environmental and economic constraints in the project area.

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Cereal System Initiative South Asia (CSISA)

The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) was established in 2009 to promote durable change at scale in South Asia’s cereal-based cropping systems. CSISA supports regional and national efforts to improve cereal production growth in South Asia’s Indo-Gangetic Plains, home to the region’s...

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