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ILRI News on markets

31 Jul 2019

Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Kenya’s livestock sector is primed to grow exponentially over the next three decades and anchor the country’s food sufficiency amid a rapid rise in the human population, a new survey...

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...

ILRI clippings

08 May 2019

Susan MacMillan

On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...

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Publications on markets

Poster

Published2019

Gendered barriers and opportunities among milk traders in the informal sector in peri-urban Nairobi

Video

Published2019

87th OIE General Session—Day 2: Jimmy Smith, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Journal Article

Published2018

Characterizing smallholder dairy production and their marketing: The implication of enhancing market-oriented dairy development in Bure district, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Report

Published2019

The Accelerated Value Chain Development program national conference report, 26–27 April 2018: Developing value chains to farming as business with technology and innovations in Kenya

Brochure

Published2019

USAID hub livestock trade facilitation

Photo Report

Published2019

Livestock trade in east Africa: Transforming livelihoods through structured trading systems

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ILRI Projects on markets

Sep 2017Dec 2019

Facilitating Value Addition and Processing in the Context of the Cassava, Maize, Banana, Vegetable and Livestock Value Chains(PRODEMA) Activities to support the Milk Value Chain

This phase of the Project (PRODEMA II) is concerned with value addition, developing markets, demonstration and upscaling of new technologies for dairy, cassava, banana, fruits and vegetables and improving human nutrition along these value chains.

Nov 2017Oct 2020

TAAT livestock compact

Livestock supports the livelihood of about 1.3 billion people in developing countries and contributes up to 30 per cent of the agriculture Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly through the provision of meat, milk, eggs, wool and hides and skins. Demand for...

Nov 2018Oct 2022

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach

The project aims to improve food safety in urban informal markets in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. While previous efforts have focused on training producers or regulators with little attention to incentives for behaviour change, the project investigates if consumer demand can provide the same...

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