Tags: livelihoods

ILRI News on livelihoods

18 Sep 2019

‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries

All paintings by Olivia Pendergast, an American artist living and working in Kenya. This opinion piece, published this week in the Financial Times , is written by Isabelle Baltenweck, an agricultural economist leading the Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods program at the International Livestock...

ILRI News

04 Sep 2019

Ekta Patel

Scientists test an experimental vaccine against malignant catarrhal fever at ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station

Livestock grazing at the Kapiti Research Station (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The annual migration of wildebeest between the Serengeti and Maasai Mara parks in Tanzania and Kenya is one of the seven new wonders of the world. Thousands of tourists from all over the world gather to see this...

ILRI News

23 Aug 2019

Ekta Patel

ILRI and India’s National Institute of Animal Biotechnology to identify potential areas of research collaborations in livestock genetics and animal health

Group photo: A memorandum of understanding between ILRI and the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), India, was signed on 20 August 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and India’s National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (...

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Publications on livelihoods

Journal Article

Published2019

The mutual benefits of promoting rural-urban interdependence through linked ecosystem services

Journal Article

Published2019

Women's agency in changing contexts: A case study of innovation processes in Western Kenya

Journal Article

Published2019

Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse

Journal Article

Published2019

Using “theory of change” to improve agricultural research: Recent experience from Tanzania

Journal Article

Published2019

Snakebite in domestic animals: First global scoping review

Poster

Published2019

Gendered barriers and opportunities among milk traders in the informal sector in peri-urban Nairobi

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ILRI Projects on livelihoods

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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...