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ILRI News on data

16 Nov 2020

Rangelands data platform wins the vote in Big Data’s 2020 Inspire Challenge

Rangelands' profile is getting a boost after the bid led by the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and partners for a coveted Big Data Platform Inspire Challenge award was successful. The US$100,000 prize money will go towards kickstarting the development of a much-needed global...

Fiona FlintanRangelands & Pastoralism Scientist

ILRI News

12 Oct 2020

When numbers lie

Land surface temperature data from ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station’s validation towers are significantly warmer than expected, prompting concern . Vast disparities in the number of instruments used to validate satellite climate sensors data have woefully underestimated the true peak temperatures of...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

Sustainable livestock systems

12 Aug 2020

Project work amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Updating the household nutrition data collection app in Samburu

Written by Watson Lepariyo , Research Associate, International Livestock Research Institute In October 2019, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in partnership with the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network ( FANRPAN ) launched a one-year pilot study in Kenya...

Sarah KasyokaCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

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Publications on data

Presentation

Published2020

Digital platform enhances genetic progress in community-based sheep and goat breeding programs in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2020

IDEAL, the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock project open access database and biobank

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ILRI Projects on data

Jan 2017Dec 2021

ReSAKSS Phase III

The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes established in 2006 under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). It supports implementation of CAADP efforts to promote evidence and outcome-based policy...