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ILRI News on seeds

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...

ILRI News

22 Nov 2018

Paul Karaimu

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...

ILRI News

06 Sep 2018

Susan MacMillan

German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet

(Left) ILRI Deputy Director General for Biosciences Dieter Schillinger welcomes to ILRI Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Maria Flachsbarth. (Right) ILRI Assistant Director General Shirley Tarawali welcomes to ILRI BMZ Deputy...

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Publications on seeds

Journal Article

Published2019

Women’s empowerment through seed improvement and seed governance: Evidence from participatory barley breeding in pre-war Syria

Journal Article

Published2016

Forage seed production and trade as a pathway out of poverty in the smallholder sector: Lessons from the Zimbabwe Crop Livestock Integration for Food Security (ZimCLIFS) project

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Tags: seeds

ILRI News on seeds

Buffelgrass: a drought-tolerant bunchgrass

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

German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet

Publications on seeds

Governing seeds in East Africa in the face of climate change: Assessing political and social outcomes

Achieving a “forage revolution” through improved varieties and seed systems

Medium-term seed storage of 50 genera of forage legumes and evidence-based genebank monitoring intervals

Potato plant growth technology

Women’s empowerment through seed improvement and seed governance: Evidence from participatory barley breeding in pre-war Syria

Forage seed production and trade as a pathway out of poverty in the smallholder sector: Lessons from the Zimbabwe Crop Livestock Integration for Food Security (ZimCLIFS) project