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ILRI News on livestock

13 Jul 2019

ILRI partners with Odisha State government to support livestock farmers affected by cyclone Fani

(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, scientific consultant, ILRI South Asia). The International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) has joined hands with the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (DAH&VS) of Odisha State, India, to assist rural communities revive...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

09 Jul 2019

Judy Kimani

Unravelling value chains through participatory modelling: part 3

This blog is the third and final of a three-part series on the system dynamics (SD) modelling technique and its use at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Today we speak with Jared Berends, a PhD student from Lincoln University who is researching pro-poor value chain upgrading...

AgHealth blog

06 Jul 2019

Tezira Lore

Celebrating World Zoonoses Day with a focus on ILRI’s research on zoonotic diseases

Taking sheep for disease testing in Bako, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Barbara Wieland). World Zoonoses Day is marked annually on 6 July to commemorate the day in 1885 when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against a zoonotic disease when he treated a young boy who had been...

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Publications on livestock

Presentation

Published2019

Livestock roles in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool G-1: The Four Legs of Participatory Rangeland Management.

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool G-2: Steps in participatory rangeland management.

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool 1-1: Guiding principles for community rangeland governance. .

Manual

Published2018

Participatory rangeland management toolkit for Kenya, Tool G-3: Scanning and appraisal for planning interventions in a new community.

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ILRI Projects on livestock

Aug 2015Dec 2019

Zoonoses in livestock in Kenya

Continuing changes to livestock production systems in Kenya and elsewhere to satisfy increased demand for livestock products affect the risk of zoonoses and other infectious diseases. The most important changes are the commercialisation and intensification of what was previously subsistence farming...

Jan 2019Dec 2023

Boosting Uganda’s investment in livestock development

In Uganda, around 70% of all households keep at least one kind of livestock (including poultry). Livestock production is primarily a family business, but only a fraction of the food produced is used for home consumption. Most of it is sold at local markets, which are mainly informal markets...

Sep 2017Jun 2019

Sindh Agricultural Growth Project (Livestock Component)

Aims to improve the productivity and competitiveness of small and medium producers in selected commodity value chains

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