Tags: trade

ILRI News on trade

08 May 2019

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...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

05 Dec 2018

Judy Kimani

Business-to-business forums spur economic growth in northern Kenya

https://flic.kr/p/2cAx4GU Part of the traders participating in the B2Bs trading at the Isiolo market (photo credit: Judy Kimani/ ILRI) The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been partnering and collaborating with the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID)...

ILRI clippings

14 Jun 2018

Susan MacMillan

Northern Kenya-southern Ethiopia dryland livestock traders gathered in Marsabit for better livestock trade and market links

Livestock trade scene in Wajir, northern Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale). ‘Enthusiastic traders from several counties in northern Kenya and from across the border in Ethiopia joined a livestock trade facilitation forum in Marsabit, Kenya on May 9. By close of business, participating...