Tags: crop-livestock

ILRI News on crop-livestock

08 Feb 2021

One Health: Key to sustainable livestock—and human and environment—health

The header image is a farm couple preparing to milk their cow in Busia, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/ Charlie Pye-Smith). Livestock play multiple roles in the livelihoods of over half a billion people in developing countries, especially in rural Africa. Livestock keeping enables Africa’s smallholder...

Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Officer

ILRI News

15 Oct 2020

Remembering Michael Blümmel

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Michael Blümmel , a principal scientist and deputy program leader in the feed and forage development program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Michael passed away on Monday, 12 Oct 2020, after a short illness in his...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

ILRI News

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...

Paul KaraimuCommunications officer

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Publications on crop-livestock

Report

Published2021

Report from training of master trainers on feeds and feeding in Rwanda, Kigali, 28-29 April 2021

Report

Published2021

A guide to developing the small ruminant value chain in northern Ghana: A value chain approach

Brief

Published2021

Identification of suitable fodder production areas using irrigation from shallow groundwater in Ethiopia

Blog Post

Published2021

Adding value to livestock feed assessment data: FEAST global data repository version 2.0.0

Website

Published2021

The sub-Saharan Africa feeds composition database (‘SSA Feeds’)

Journal Article

Published2021

Animal health service delivery in crop-livestock and pastoral systems in Ethiopia

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ILRI Projects on crop-livestock

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.

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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