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Eradicating Peste des Petits Ruminants in Uganda – BuildUganda project to reinforce national disease control capacities

Goats leaving home for grazing, Borana, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI\Zerihun Sewunet). Written by Ekta Patel and Kristina Roesel In early June this year, the BuildUganda research for development project was launched at a workshop with stakeholders . One of the four components of the project is...

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A ‘Livestock Master Plan’ is MISSION CRITICAL for India’s state of Bihar

Shama Khatoon, outside her goat shed in Bihar, is a widow supporting her family through goat rearing (photo via Aga Khan Development Network/Mansi Midha). The article is written by Steve Staal, leader of ILRI’s Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods program. This is a banner year for the livestock...

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Atsbi decision makers exploring the future of their livestock value chain : You can’t have your sheep and eat it

With the increasing population and wealth, demand for animal source food such as milk and meat is expected to almost double in the next 10 years in Ethiopia(Dolapo E., etal) . This is one of the greatest opportunities for improving livelihoods of Ethiopian livestock keepers and at the same time the...

  • Simret Yasabu
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Livestock and trees: A more perfect union

Illustration by Remy Charlip via Pinterest: Cover of Four Fur Feet, written by Margaret Wise Brown. Livestock provide ecological services too great to warrant their complete removal from the landscape. ‘. . . Sequestering carbon has become a topic essential to the broader conversation about how our...

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When ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’

This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pastoral Maasai communities, with images of a Maasai kraal homestead (upper left) and communal herding (upper right) (illustration from Ch. 14 of A Different Kettle of Fish? Gender Integration in Livestock...

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From New Zealand to the US, Kenya to Colombia, scientists are on a mission to make livestock less gassy

A schoolchildren’s painting of a container outside the Mazingira Centre, an environmental initiative of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Ruminants such as cattle, buffalo, sheep and goats produce nitrous oxide, carbon...

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Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?

Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flintan). ‘The debate over whether a vegetarian diet is better for the planet is top of mind for many as news of water scarcity, climate change, and deforestation seem to worsen by the day. Sarah Taber...

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Agrilinks hosts month-long focus on food safety

Including two contributions featuring the Safe Food, Fair Food Africa project: Food Safety in Informal Markets in Low-Income Countries Gender Considerations in Informal Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa AgHealth Fish market in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (photo credit: WorldFish/Jamie Oliver)...

  • Kristina Rösel
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Empowering ruminant livestock enterprises in Mali—A Feed the Future-ILRI project

A woman milks one of her goats in Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). The Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program is a three-year initiative (2016–2019) promoting inclusive growth of all actors adding value to the production and marketing of ruminant livestock in this...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
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Mobile pastoralism—A 10,000-year-old practice still robust, if threatened, in the Mediterranean today

A Spanish shepherd and his flock (photo via Flickr/Jeromy Johnson). From the Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture ‘Mobile pastoralism is the movement of people and livestock through the landscape in search of water and pasture, and includes different practices such as transhumance, semi-...

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ILRI’s Kapiti livestock research station—and Kenyan and global public goods—imperiled by land grabs in Kenya

Over the past several weeks, illegal attempts to grab land have escalated at Kapiti Plains Estate (now known as Kapiti research station ), located about 60 km southeast of Nairobi along Mombasa Road, in Kenya’s Machakos County . Members of groups involved in the illegal sales have started...

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Gates Foundation grants Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems USD8.7 million to improve human nutrition in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia

Drying and storing animal fodder, and feeding and milking cattle, in West Africa (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). The University of Florida has been awarded USD8.7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund livestock research over the next five years to tackle high rates of...