Tags: environment

ILRI News on environment

22 Feb 2020

Where does the methane in the atmosphere come from?

In February 2020 a team from ILRI’s Mazingira Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London and Cambridge University went on a trip through Southern Kenya to sample air. Sampling air may sound arbitrary yet the bigger aim of this field campaign was to derive samples from livestock including cattle,...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

18 Feb 2020

Mireille Ferrari

Making the case for new data on rangelands

A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family’s animals Photo S. Mann/ILRI “What if much of the basic information being used to describe approximately half of the world’s land surface dated from as far back as the 1960s? (And, is ‘approximately half’ even still a correct estimation?)” This is the question...

Mazingira blog

07 Feb 2020

Sarah Kasyoka

Changing landscapes call for new pathways in livestock development in Ethiopia’s Afar region

Sustainable livestock systems Livestock production is the main source of livelihood in the pastoral lands of Afar in northeastern Ethiopia. But the traditional livestock-keeping way of life there has been severely affected by climate change in recent years. Rainfall has become unpredictable, and...

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Publications on environment

Working Paper

Published2019

Livestock and water in developing countries

Brochure

Published2019

Kapiti Research Station: A livestock, environmental and agricultural research station in southeastern Kenya

Report

Published2019

A review on health and environmental aspects of current manure management practices in pig production systems in Uganda

Journal Article

Published2019

Molecular detection and typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from cattle, animal handlers, and their environment from Karnataka, Southern Province of India

Report

Published2019

A comparative analysis of three community-based rangeland management cases: Taking successes in land restoration to scale project

Brief

Published2019

Addressing nitrous oxide: An often ignored climate and ozone threat

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ILRI Projects on environment

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Jan 2010May 2013

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...