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ILRI News on seeds

27 Mar 2020

Promoting better agricultural practices of drought-tolerant crops in farming communities

Makueni Ventures chairman, John Ndiso in the farm in Emali, Makueni County. Photo Credit AVCD/Muthoni Njiru Makueni Agribusiness Ventures is a 10-member farmer group that participated in an AVCD funded good agricultural practices (GAPs) and modern farming training lead by ICRISAT. The group has a...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI News

30 Aug 2019

Buffelgrass: a drought-tolerant bunchgrass

Buffelgrass growing in a field trial in Bishoftu, Ethiopia (photo credit: Ricardo Sanchez Gutierrez/Ethiopia). Buffelgrass ( Cenchrus ciliaris L.) is a bunchgrass that grows in clumps, it can transform deserts into grasslands. It is one of the most popular forage species and is extensively grown...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

ILRI News

22 Nov 2018

Thirty per cent of ILRI genebank collections now safely duplicated at the global seed vault in Norway

Alieu Sartie, ILRI genebank manager (right) and technician Solomon Fikre checking forage seed samples before delivery to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (photo credit:ILRI/Lei Sun). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is home to the world’s only genebank dedicated wholly to forages...