Management of globally significant endemic ruminant livestock in Senegal
This report on Sustainable management of globally significant endemic ruminant livestock in West Africa: Estimate of livestock demographic parameters in Senegal was released by the International...
View ArticleInnovation platform facilitation and assessment the focus of guidelines from...
A manual by Pamela Pali and Kees Swaans on ‘Guidelines for innovation platforms: Facilitation, monitoring and evaluation’ was recently published by the International Livestock Research Institute...
View ArticleILRI publie un guide pour l’animation, le suivi et l’évaluation des...
Un manuel intitulé les «Directives pour les plateformes d’Innovation: Facilitation, suivi et evaluation» a été publié par l’Institut international de recherche sur le bétail (ILRI) en mars 2013, en...
View ArticleAfrica’s dryland agricultural systems research: When East meets West (and...
I have been working for nine months as an agricultural economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya. I have come to realize that there are not...
View ArticleIt can be done: Perfecting the art of survival in the Sahel
Fishermen and Sahelian goats by the Niger River, in Segou, Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘The Sahel region, a vast arid stretch of land linking six countries in West Africa—Burkina Faso,...
View ArticleAflatoxins: New briefs disclose the threat to people and livestock and what...
A damaged maize cob that, if harvested with clean cobs, can contaminate all the cobs with aflatoxins (photo credit: Joseph Atehnkeng/IITA). ‘The UN World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that...
View ArticleAfrican drylands: Livestock demand and supply
Village women and livestock in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘A key function of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is to estimate food security across the world. These...
View ArticleNew analyses highlight the extent of livestock production in Africa’s drylands
Typical long-horned goats of Abergelle Amhara, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). ‘Quantitative information on the importance of livestock systems in African drylands is scarce. A new...
View ArticleEbola: Three unpalatable truths
The district of Kailahun, in eastern Sierra Leone, bordering Guinea, is home to this 88-bed largest Ebola treatment and isolation centre set up by Médecins Sans Frontières (photo on Flickr by...
View ArticleOn a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means...
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...
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