Tags: livelihoods

ILRI News on livelihoods

20 Nov 2019

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...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

25 Oct 2019

Judy Kimani

Celebrating the open access week at ILRI

Here’s how the Policies Institutions and Livelihoods (PIL) program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is contributing towards open research . The PIL program’s objective is to maximize livestock-mediated welfare and livelihoods among women and men smallholder and pastoral...

ILRI News

24 Oct 2019

David Aronson

Towards sustainable food system transformations in the Global South

The world is just eleven harvests away from 2030, but for hundreds of millions of people the goal of ending hunger set forth in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) remains as loftily elusive as ever. What can be done to put the developing world on the right track? A side event...

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Publications on livelihoods

Journal Article

Published2019

Upgrading the smallholder dairy value chain: A system dynamics ex-ante impact assessment in Tanzania's Kilosa district

Presentation

Published2019

Tanzania and Ghana poultry value chains: A status report

Presentation

Published2019

Opportunities and constraints in pastoral and agro-pastoral livestock systems: The ICARDA/ILRI experience

Presentation

Published2019

Measuring empowerment in agricultural development projects using WEAI and WELI

Presentation

Published2019

Quantitative and qualitative tools: Friends or foes?

Manual

Published2015

Mapping guidelines for participatory rangeland management in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas: Practitioners’ guide

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ILRI Projects on livelihoods

Active

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...

Active

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...