Tags: fodder

ILRI News on fodder

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...

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...

ILRI News

30 Sep 2019

Ekta Patel

An ILRI developed feed constraint decision making tool, FEAST, applies gender awareness

A workshop in Dehra Dun, India, to develop a tool for feed technology screening and prioritization (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Seven years ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) developed a decision-making...

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Publications on fodder

Conference Paper

Published2019

Year round feed and fodder availability in smallholder dairy farms across high and low altitude areas in Eastern Africa

Journal Article

Published2019

A genome-wide association study approach to the identification of candidate genes underlying agronomic traits in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

Journal Article

Published2019

Opportunities for wheat cultivars with superior straw quality traits targeting the semi-arid tropics

Journal Article

Published2019

Comparative assessment of food-fodder traits in a wide range of wheat germplasm for diverse biophysical target domains in South Asia

Journal Article

Published2019

Variations in straw fodder quality and grain–straw relationships in a mapping population of 287 diverse spring wheat lines

Brief

Published2019

Feed and fodder production in different agro-climatic zones and its utilization for livestock of Odisha

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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...