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ILRI News on farming systems

15 Dec 2021

Amidst growing population pressures, who will feed Africa?

Africa’s population continues to boom, from 476 million in 1980 to 1.4 billion today to a projected 2.5 billion by 2050 and as much as 4.3 billion by 2100.[1] By 2050, two out of five newborns worldwide will be African; by 2100, one out of every two will be. The vast majority of these will be...

Brenda CorominaPrinceton in Africa Fellow: Assistant Writer/Editor

ILRI News

03 Nov 2021

Ancient farming practices in the Burren region of Ireland reveal the mutually beneficial relationship between farmers and the environment

The Burren's stone walls enclose grazing livestock (photo credit: Brendan Dunford) For thousands of years, farmers in the Burren region of Ireland have marked the end of summer by moving their cattle onto ‘winterage’ pastures in the limestone uplands where they spend the winter grazing. This...

Elliot CarletonResearch and Communications Consultant

ILRI News

27 Sep 2021

Smith delivers keynote at Tropentag conference

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) was the featured CGIAR centre at the Tropentag conference in Germany this September, which centred on shifting paradigms in agriculture to achieve a healthy and sustainable future. The Tropentag is an annual interdisciplinary conference that...

Elliot CarletonResearch and Communications Consultant

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Publications on farming systems

Journal Article

Published2022

Two hundred volumes of Agricultural Systems: Common themes and trends

Journal Article

Published2021

Yields and the nutritive value of early harvested common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) crop residues for ruminants

Report

Published2021

LegumeSELECT: Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) report for characterization of smallholder farming in Sinana and Digga Woredas, Oromia, Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2021

Feed and forage development in mixed crop–livestock systems of the Ethiopian highlands: Africa RISING project research experience

Journal Article

Published2021

Genome and systems biology of Melilotus albus provides insights into coumarins biosynthesis

Journal Article

Published2021

Feed resource bases and farmers’ perceived uses of grain legume haulms in the mixed crop-livestock farming system of Ethiopia

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ILRI Projects on farming systems

Aug 2022Jul 2025

Tropical Poultry Genetics Solutions (TPGS): Delivering farmer preferred, productive and ecologically adapted poultry to smallholders

This three year project will run as part of the One CGIAR initiatives and will focus on seven interrelated outcome areas, namely: Characterization of ecological adaptation of chicken ecotypes and identification of farmers trait preferences Strengthening of existing partnerships and developing new...

Aug 2022Aug 2025

EnviroCow: Reducing feed costs and GHG emission in smallholder dairy cattle in SSA

This three year partnership is between Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), U.K and ILRI. It will achieve its purpose of improving feed mitigation to climate change, increasing farmer productivity and income as well as access to nutritious food by enabling the selection of new generations of dairy...