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AWARD Fellowships call 2014
AWARD is a career-development program that equips top women agricultural scientists across sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their research and leadership skills...
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AgInvest Africa web tool launched to map and track agricultural interventions...
Ms Kaarli Sundsmo, representing the USAID East Africa Regional Mission Director, launching the AgInvest portal (accompanying her are (L-R) Jimmy Smith, Director General, ILRI, Sam Kanyarukiga, Chair,...
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East African dairy: Donors and stakeholders meet this week in Uganda to...
ILRI scientist Steve Staal (in blue) and Gregg Bevier (right) of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), take a close look at a cowshed typical of Kenya’s smallholder dairy sector (photo...
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PRIME(ing) resilience among Ethiopia’s pastoral communities
For all the advances of modern science, experts haven’t come up with a way to provide rain for pastoralists when they need it. ‘As such, PRIME helps farmers with livestock become more resilient to...
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FAO workshops map and plan work to contain animal-transmitted Ebola and MERS...
Watering camels near Wajir, in northern Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale). Infectious animal-borne disease threats such as Ebola and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus...
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ILRI scientist to direct USAID international project to reduce post-harvest...
Jagger Harvey (left) with Lord David Sainsbury (benefactor of The Sainsbury Laboratory through the Gatsby CharitableFoundation) when receiving the Societal Impact award in Norwich, UK, in 2013 (photo...
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Livestock are ‘the future of Pakistan’s smallholder farmers’—PARC chairman
A flock of Makhi Cheeni goats near Hasilpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan (photo credit: ILRI/M Sajjad Khan). ‘Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Chairman Dr Nadeem Amjad stated that livestock was...
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Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance
From left, award winners Andrew Mude and Chris Barrett inspect cattle with pastoralists in Ethiopia (photo credit: Cornell). A Cornell development economist and his partners in the USAID-funded BASIS...
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US ambassador to Burkina Faso visits ILRI-led Feed the Future Sustainable...
On 6 October 2016 the Ambassador of the United States to Burkina Faso, H E Tulinabo S Mushingi, visited Ziga in Yatenga Province, one of the implementation sites of the Feed the Future Sustainable...
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USAID supports the commercial potential of cassava peel for livestock feed in...
Women peeling cassava roots in a cassava processing centre (photo credit: IITA). ‘The US government, yesterday, said it has invested $75 million (about N2.3 billion) in [Nigeria’s] agricultural...
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Join our webinar! Designing projects for improving nutrition through animal...
The following announcement comes from Jennie Lane, animal health and livelihoods technical advisor for Land O’Lakes International Development. Land O’Lakes International Development and the...
View ArticleAccelerating the development of agricultural value chains in Kenya—AVCD...
Accelerating Value Chain Development in Kenya Conference: Highlights Read more about AVCD here and here, about the Livestock Value Chain component of AVCD here, and about the KAZNET crowd-sourced data...
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Africa RISING looks back at what the project achieved in ‘intensifying’...
Africa RISING is implementing activities with youthful farmers in Bababti District, northern Tanzania, to improve poultry housing and husbandry activities as an entry point to sustainable...
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Northern Kenya-southern Ethiopia dryland livestock traders gathered in...
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...
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Selective breeding manuals reveal best practices for small ruminant productivity
Two new manuals have been developed for livestock practitioners and development partners seeking to boost livestock productivity in pastoral communities through improved herd management. These modules...
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National livestock sector policies and planning under a changing global economy
The livestock sector has key roles in many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs): providing options for employment, poverty reduction and economic growth, while supplying animal proteins that are...
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This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable...
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), introduces ‘Livestock Month’ by Agrilinks, USAID’s knowledge...
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