Tags: livelihoods

ILRI News on livelihoods

17 Oct 2019

ILRI at the Committee on World Food Security

Today, the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) Iain Wright, d eputy director general for research and development–Integrated Sciences, gave a short intervention at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) held at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) headquarters in Rome...

ILRI News

17 Oct 2019

David Aronson

The view from New York

The New Yorker recently ran an article on Impossible Burgers , one of several major corporate-backed initiatives that are touting their animal-food alternatives as reasonably good-tasting, culinary substitutes for beef, chicken, milk and so on, but produced without the problematic harms associated...

ILRI News

13 Oct 2019

David Aronson

FAO conference on global hunger to launch

More than 820 million people in the world are hungry today and an additional 1.3 billion suffer from moderate food insecurity, meaning they do not have regular access to nutritious food. Alarmingly, for the third straight year those numbers have risen, despite massive global commitments to reduce...

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Publications on livelihoods

Journal Article

Published2019

Leveraging human nutrition through livestock interventions: Perceptions, knowledge, barriers and opportunities in the Sahel

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

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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...