Tags: livelihoods

ILRI News on livelihoods

08 Jan 2020

As United States marks January as ‘National One Health Awareness Month’, public, veterinary and environmental health in Africa is bolstered by the start of a new ‘One Health’ centre

Menz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet) Each year, an International One Health Day is celebrated globally on 3 Nov. Last month, the US Senate designated Jan 2020 as ‘National One Health Awareness Month’ to promote collaboration among public, animal and environmental health scientists...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

11 Dec 2019

Judy Kimani

Power through: a new concept in the women empowerment discourse

Recent webinar and paper on the empowerment discourse now available The capability of women for self-determination: to take control over their own circumstances and to realize their aspirations in order to live a life they have reason to value is referred to as women’s empowerment. Women’s...

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...

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Publications on livelihoods

Journal Article

Published2019

Identifying the precursors of vulnerability in agricultural value chains: A system dynamics approach

Journal Article

Published2019

Putting the “A” into WaSH: A call for integrated management of water, animals, sanitation, and hygiene

Journal Article

Published2019

Livestock-wealth inequalities and uptake of crop cultivation among the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania

Journal Article

Published2019

Variation in grain yield, fodder quality and animal intake in two dual purpose legume crops: Mungbean and vegetable soybean grown in semi-arid tropical India

Brochure

Published2019

One Health Units for Humans, Environment, Animals and Livelihoods (HEAL)

Conference Paper

Published2019

The importance of local adaptation for sustainable chicken production: the example of Ethiopia

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ILRI Projects on livelihoods

Jan 2019Dec 2022

Women in business: chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Methods Study of existing breed dissemination pathways; develop and test women-led business models to disseminate chicks to farmers in remote areas; engage in gender responsive and transformative approaches; assess impact on women’s empowerment and on nutrition. Expected impact Women’s empowerment...

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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...

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Jul 2009Jun 2013

Building livelihoods resilience to alleviate poverty in semi-arid areas of West Africa

GENERAL AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES The project overall objective is to enhance the contribution of agricultural and natural resources systems to improved livelihoods and quality of the environment in semi-arid areas of sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose is to build smallholder livelihoods resilience, and...