Tags: fodder

ILRI News on fodder

15 May 2020

ILRI feed technology research platform makes more fodder available to developing-world livestock keepers

Gujar nomads with buffalo near Mussorie during the workshop to develop a tool for Feed Technology Screening and Prioritisation, Dehra Dun, India (photo credit: ILRI/Nils Teufel). Located at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) campus in Patancheru, India,...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

ILRI News

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...

Susan MacMillanTeam Leader, Communications, Awareness and Advocacy

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

28 Oct 2019

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...

Alan DuncanPrincipal Livestock Scientist

More news

Publications on fodder

Journal Article

Published2020

Developing improved methods for cost effective viability monitoring of Aeschynomene abyssinica and A. americana

Journal Article

Published2020

Recent advances in dual purpose rice and wheat research: A synthesis

Brochure

Published2020

Feed technology research platform Patancheru, India

Journal Article

Published2020

Progress and challenges in ex situ conservation of forage germplasm: Grasses, herbaceous legumes and fodder trees

Extension Material

Published2019

How to conserve fodder

Extension Material

Published2019

How to establish fodder

more publications

ILRI Projects on fodder

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

Active

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...