Tags: livelihoods

ILRI News on livelihoods

30 Jun 2020

Using the SourceTrace digital platform to support farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic

sourcetrace.com Update from the drought-tolerant crops component of the AVCD program Despite minimal field visits during this period of the COVID-19-related restrictions, the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program staff and management are working with extension officers and lead farmers...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

AVCD program blog

30 Jun 2020

Using virtual communication tools to support northern Kenya partners during the COVID-19 pandemic

An aerial view of the Oldonyiro Livestock Market in Isiolo County (photo credit: USAID/Mwangi Kirubi). Update from the livestock component of the AVCD program Over the last three months (April – June), the livestock value chain (LVC) team of the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

AVCD program blog

30 Jun 2020

Keeping safe while staying food secure in Kenya

Shadrack Juma, ward agricultural officer in Werugha Ward, Taita Taveta County, demonstrating how to do proper (second) hilling to host farmer and community health volunteers. Notice the use of masks and social distancing (photo credit: AVCD). Update from the potato component of the AVCD program In...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

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Publications on livelihoods

Infographic

Published2020

From genebanks to farmer's fields: Forage breeding and selection to improve livelihoods

Journal Article

Published2020

Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale

Brief

Published2020

Can trade preferences stimulate sectoral development? The case of Namibian and Botswanan beef exports to Norway

Journal Article

Published2020

Games as boundary objects: Charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation

Presentation

Published2020

From genebanks to farmer’s fields: Forage breeding and selection to improve livelihoods

Brochure

Published2019

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock: More meat, milk and eggs, by and for the poor

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ILRI Projects on livelihoods

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

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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