Tags: fodder

ILRI News on fodder

23 Mar 2022

Climate-smart farming offers hope to Zimbabwe’s smallholders and livestock keepers

For 60-year-old Maxwell Machivenyika, farm-life was filled with tedium, drudgery and challenges. To get the job done working on his small farm meant waking up at 4 a.m. daily. Machivenyika has been growing maize, Zimbabwe’s main staple crop, since 1988. But his yields have been poor because of...

Johnson SiamachiraCommunication Officer(Cirad)

ILRI News

07 Mar 2022

Improved forages empower smallholder women livestock keepers in Kenya and Ethiopia

Climate change is a global challenge that burdens all humanity, but not equally. The rural poor, particularly women, are more affected by climate-related shocks . Women and men in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa who depend on farming as a primary source of livelihood are considered more...

Judy KimaniCommunications Specialist

ILRI News

09 Dec 2021

Establishing nutritional profiles of improved Brachiaria grass cultivars

Worldwide livestock contribute about 40% of agricultural gross domestic product and provide livelihoods and incomes for at least 1.3 billion people . Livestock are a source of employment, income, social status, and livelihoods for millions of African smallholder farmers. Moreover, livestock are a...

Sita GhimirePrincipal Scientist - Plant Pathology

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Publications on fodder

Journal Article

Published2022

Selenium concentration in cattle serum and fodder from two areas in Ethiopia with contrasting human selenium concentration

Blog Post

Published2022

Ethiopian lab scientists meet to compare notes on use of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) to estimate livestock feed quality

Journal Article

Published2022

Evaluation of n-alkanes, long-chain alcohols, and carbon stable isotope enrichments of n-alkanes as diet composition markers in free-grazing animals

Journal Article

Published2022

NIR instruments and prediction methods for rapid access to grain protein content in multiple cereals

Blog Post

Published2022

Scientists identify genomic regions controlling important genetic traits for Napier grass

Thesis

Published2022

Diversity and genome-wide association in Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus L.) collections for agronomic and drought-tolerance related traits

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ILRI Projects on fodder

Jan 2020Dec 2023

Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)

Livestock provides income and employment to farmers, agricultural service providers and others involved in the value chain. Zimbabwe’s livestock production system is characterized by small-scale subsistence farming. Despite the importance of livestock to rural livelihoods, productivity remains low...

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

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...