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ILRI News on livestock

10 Feb 2021

Social and behaviour change improves milk consumption for Rwanda’s children

A community health worker at one of the counselling visits to pregnant and lactating women with children under five years of age (photo credit: Three Stones International). The level of chronic malnutrition among children in Rwanda remains high. Only 30% of children aged 6-23 months consume a diet...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI News

08 Feb 2021

One Health: Key to sustainable livestock—and human and environment—health

The header image is a farm couple preparing to milk their cow in Busia, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/ Charlie Pye-Smith). Livestock play multiple roles in the livelihoods of over half a billion people in developing countries, especially in rural Africa. Livestock keeping enables Africa’s smallholder...

Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Officer

ILRI News

08 Feb 2021

ILRI Impact at Scale program shares insights on scaling tools and practices with CGIAR science leaders and GIZ scaling experts

This post was written by Murat Sartas and Saba Ermyas, and edited by Paul Karaimu. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Impact at Scale (I@S) program recently share examples for identifying, analysing and integrating scaling tools into agricultural research for development programs...

Saba ErmyasCommunications Officer

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Publications on livestock

Journal Article

Published2021

Population structure, inbreeding and admixture in local cattle populations managed by community‐based breeding programs in Burkina Faso

Journal Article

Published2021

Knowledge, attitude, and practices to zoonotic disease risks from livestock birth products among smallholder communities in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2021

Spatial clustering of livestock anthrax events associated with agro-ecological zones in Kenya, 1957-2017

Journal Article

Published2021

Correction to: Importance of livestock diseases identified using participatory epidemiology in the highlands of Ethiopia

Book Chapter

Published2020

Multi-trait improvement in sorghum to optimize livelihoods from mixed crop livestock systems and the impact of augmented new cultivar release criteria

Report

Published2021

The effect of disseminating livestock extension messages using SMS on knowledge, attitude and practices of smallholder farmers - A case study of using the MWANGA Platform in Tanzania

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ILRI Projects on livestock

Jan 2021Dec 2021

Silvopastoralism and welfare of animals in Borana

Silvopastoralism is a form of agroforestry that involves integrating trees, forage and the grazing of domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way. This project will develop site-specific action plans to strengthen silvopastoralism and its value chain integrating management of dry forests,...

Jan 2020Dec 2021

Synergies of animal welfare and agroforestry to benefit farming systems in Ethiopia

Agroforestry, the integration of trees into agriculture, is a promising agricultural method for facing the challenges of climate change. Trees and shrubs hold enormous potential for improving livestock management by providing diverse fodder, protection from wind and heat, more resilient grazing...

Dec 2019Apr 2022

BMGF-funded project on gender planning

Much effort has been geared towards ‘gender mainstreaming’ to ensure that women’s needs, capabilities and constraints are included in the development of technologies, practices and business approaches. Such mainstreaming in livestock often aimed to highlight the underplayed, invisible and...

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