Africa

ILRI Projects in Africa

Jan 2016Dec 2019

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (FTF-MLTS)

Aims to reduce ruminant livestock productivity gaps and increase the volume and value of ruminant livestock marketed and promoting the expansion of profitable livestock-based enterprises with a business model that stimulates commercial and institutional innovations, linking up producers with input...

Sep 2017Dec 2019

Facilitating Value Addition and Processing in the Context of the Cassava, Maize, Banana, Vegetable and Livestock Value Chains(PRODEMA) Activities to support the Milk Value Chain

This phase of the Project (PRODEMA II) is concerned with value addition, developing markets, demonstration and upscaling of new technologies for dairy, cassava, banana, fruits and vegetables and improving human nutrition along these value chains.

Oct 2016Sep 2019

Tuendelee Pamoja II Project

To train farmers on forage agronomy and conservation techniques that will help them overcome livestock feed shortage during the dry season and to train Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) on common livestock diseases and their treatments, to equip them with material and medicine kits and...

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ILRI clippings

08 Apr 2019

Ekta Patel

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics – a problem driven by the world’s poor and rich alike

Kibera slum alley (photo via Flickr/Ninara) As reported this week by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel in the New York Times , ‘Kibera residents are prodigious consumers of antibiotics’. Kibera area, one of Africa’s largest urban slums, is located in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of around one...

ILRI clippings

21 Mar 2019

David Aronson

Thursday Links

A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff, compiled by David Aronson. Bill Gates writes that in poor communities in India, goats are helping empower women , “thanks to a new team of health workers who...

ILRI News

15 Mar 2019

David Aronson

Raising the steaks

Photo credit: African Business Magazine. A new article in African Business Magazine provides a comprehensive overview of the risks and opportunities presented by Africa’s livestock sector and features extensive analysis from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) director general Jimmy...

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