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Celebrating the world’s enduring, resilient, nature-friendly and productive rangelands and livestock herders

The United Nations Declare 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists Having a moment are millions of livestock herders worldwide and the many more people who appreciate these custodians of the world’s vast and stunning rangelands—the grasslands and savannas, the prairies and...

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Pacem Kotchofa’s PPR research wins second place at World Food Forum’s Transformative Research Challenge

Pacem Kotchofa, a Beninese-born agricultural economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) who leads the socio-economic thematic group of the Peste de Petits Ruminants (PPR) Global Research and Expertise Network (PPR GREN), was awarded second place at the World Food Forum’s...

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‘Livestock master plan’ launched to transform meat, milk and poultry production in The Gambia

Goats in a West African village (photo credit: ILRI). Farming dominates the economy of The Gambia, a small, narrow West African country (the smallest country in mainland Africa, which is less than 50 km wide at its widest point). Surrounded on three sides by Senegal, the country has an Atlantic...

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