Tags: fodder

ILRI News on fodder

13 Dec 2019

A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development

Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). The board, directors and staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) mourn the passing of a former colleague and...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

28 Oct 2019

Alan Duncan

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) – new developments

G-FEAST – a gendered version of FEAST Feeding cows; Tana River watershed, Kenya; Credit Georgina Smith CIAT Feeding livestock involves multiple tasks including planting, weeding and harvesting of forages, collecting and storing crop residues and purchasing of concentrate feeds. In every farming...

ILRI clippings

10 Oct 2019

Susan MacMillan

CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia

Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Agricultural development in Somalia—an important commercial centre in antiquity that in 1991 became stateless and suffered more than two decades of conflict and, more recently, devastating drought—is...

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Publications on fodder

Report

Published2020

Gendered assessment of livestock feeding system in northern and southern Burkina Faso

Report

Published2019

ILRI Feed 3 project report, April–September 2019

Report

Published2019

Livestock feed resources in West African Sahel: A review

Report

Published2019

Assessment of available feed resources along an agro-ecological gradient in Burkina Faso

Presentation

Published2019

Opportunities for small scale green fodder enterprise in Mulukanoor Women Dairy Cooperative (MWDC), Kareem Nagar, Telangana

Report

Published2020

Feed and fodder production in different agroclimatic zones and their utilization for livestock in Odisha: Dissemination of new feed technology and forage crops

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ILRI Projects on fodder

Fodder and feed as a key opportunity for driving sustainable intensification of crop livestock systems in Tanzania

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Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches

Project goal The overall goal of the project is to improve pastoral livelihoods through sustainable market systems. The project aims to promote pastoral livelihoods diversification, facilitate robust markets for livestock and livestock products and enhance consolidation of knowledge base to enhance...