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ILRI News on environment

17 Oct 2019

The view from New York

The New Yorker recently ran an article on Impossible Burgers , one of several major corporate-backed initiatives that are touting their animal-food alternatives as reasonably good-tasting, culinary substitutes for beef, chicken, milk and so on, but produced without the problematic harms associated...

Sustainable livestock systems

15 Oct 2019

Judy Kimani

ILC Rangelands Initiative partners draw attention to rangelands at the UNCCD COP

This blog was first published on the International Land Coalition (ILC) website . By Fiona Flintan In early September 2019, New Delhi, India hosted the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14). The ILC Rangelands Initiative partners and...

ILRI News

07 Oct 2019

Susan MacMillan

Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.

All illustrations by Japanese graphic artist Zenji Funabashi. Just in time to add fuel to the fire of the current meat, milk and diet wars being waged in scholarly and lay media alike comes the latest issue (Oct 2019) of the scientific journal Animal Frontiers on Foods of animal origin: A...

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Publications on environment

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The mutual benefits of promoting rural-urban interdependence through linked ecosystem services

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Using “theory of change” to improve agricultural research: Recent experience from Tanzania

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Supplementing tropical cattle for improved nutrient utilization and reduced enteric methane emissions

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Open property and complex mosaics: Variants in tenure regimes across pastoralist social-ecological systems.

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Modelling biological N fixation and grass-legume dynamics with process-based biogeochemical models of varying complexity

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Prioritizing options for multi-objective agricultural development through the Positive Deviance approach

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ILRI Projects on environment

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Volta Basin Development Challenge: integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agro-ecosystems

Given the economic, social and environmental vulnerability due to high water scarcity and variability in the basin, improvements in rainwater management are needed for ensuring sustainable and equitable benefits. This project intends to identify, evaluate, adapt, and disseminate best-fit integrated...