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ILRI News on seeds

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...

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...

ILRI News

25 Feb 2018

Susan MacMillan

‘Legacy Award’ bestowed on Jean Hanson, ILRI’s forage genebank gatekeeper for the last three decades

Artwork from Australian visual artist Sophie Munns. For the last 31 years, Jean Hanson, a British genetic resources specialist by training, has managed and helped others to manage forage genetic resources research at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,...

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Publications on seeds

Presentation

Published2018

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

Journal Article

Published2015

Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from a subtropical rice–rapeseed rotation system in China: A 3-year field case study

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