Tags: farming systems

ILRI News on farming systems

14 Jan 2020

African swine fever ten years on: the lessons learned and the way forward

A pig in northwest Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Hanh Le). African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs that has caused serious economic and production losses in Asia, where China has seen direct economic losses of an estimated USD141 billion. This transboundary...

Sustainable livestock systems

06 Dec 2019

Sarah Kasyoka

The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey set to announce major updates in 2020

The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) team has been busy working on improvements to make the various elements of the tool more coherent. These upgrades, which are set to go live in January 2020 will streamline the tool making access easier for users. Read this article which was...

ILRI News

20 Nov 2019

David Aronson

Livestock in context: A plea for intellectual rigor and collegial disagreement

Photo credit: ©IFPRI/David Popham Lawrence Haddad, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and 2018 World Food Prize co-winner, gave two presentations at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference held 11-13 November in Brisbane, Australia. The first, titled Let...