Eastern and Southern Africa

A woman farmer takes her cows for inseminationImproving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers conducts Artificial Insemination (AI) on cows to increase dairy production in Ethiopia

Cattle grazing on Brachiaria grassCattle grazing on Brachiaria at the ILRI campus in Nairobi Kenya

Pacassa village, Tete Province, Mozambique

ILRI operates in East Africa with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This page brings together ILRI and partner resources on Eastern and Southern Africa. It shows information on projects, news items, research outputs and video materials as well as ILRI people working in the region.

ILRI Projects in Eastern and Southern 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.

Jan 2019Dec 2022

Rwanda Dairy Development Project is implemented by Government of Rwanda under a loan from IFAD. This technical assistance project aims to support improved feeding of dairy cattle across project sites

Aims to provide livestock technical support including use of ration balancing approaches, feed-supply demand work and the use of other prioritization tools including SoFT to the Rwanda dairy development project

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ILRI News in Eastern and Southern Africa

ILRI clippings

08 Apr 2019

Susan MacMillan

Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies

Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow Su Kahumbu is one of Kenya’s most authoritative and sustainable farmers. She is the brains behind two social enterprises: ‘Green Dreams TECH Ltd’, an organic farm and service connecting Kenya’s small-...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

04 Apr 2019

Beamlak Tesfaye

Educational tours to ILRI poultry research facility inspire young students in Ethiopia

Students from Hillside School at the ILRI poultry research facility in Addis Ababa (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led African Chicken Genetics Gains (ACGG) project is now hosting educational tours for students at the poultry research...

ILRI clippings

19 Mar 2019

Paul Karaimu

Tanzania launches five-year livestock sector master plan

A dairy cow in Tanga, Tanzania. The Tanzania livestock master plan will guide investment to develop the country’s livestock sector (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). IPPmedia reported last week that the Tanzania government has launched a Tsh1.4 trillion (USD596 million) livestock master plan that...

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