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Partners review progress of implementing Bihar’s livestock master plan

Livestock sector stakeholders and partners in Bihar, India, met recently to review the implementation of the state’s livestock master plan three years after its launch. The 8 October 2022 meeting at the Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU) in the state capital, Patna, brought together close to...

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A livestock master plan is produced for India's Odisha State

The following is a foreword by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), to a new ILRI report, Odisha Livestock Master Plan 2022/23–2026/27 . 'The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners have, since 2013, provided technical...

  • Enock Chikava
    Agriculture development interim director(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
  • Shri R. Raghu Prasad
    IFS principal secretary, Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Department(Government of Odisha)
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Decades of foundational animal health research showcased in new book

3 Nov 2021 ILRI launches a book detailing the impacts of livestock research for development conducted by ILRI and its many partners since the early 1970s. Check out the book's landing page . Below is just one of the many stories outlined in the book. Decades of foundational animal health research...

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YPARD and ILRI join forces to provide on the job training for young professionals

Innovation and scaling are increasingly becoming key focus areas of CGIAR. Scaling connects CGIAR’s high-quality research and innovation for development activities with national and local governments, international development banks, national and global civil society organizations, impact investors...

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Shining a light on how CGIAR innovations are being adopted in Ethiopia

Agriculture is an important sector in Ethiopia as it accounted for 47 percent of Ethiopia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) on average over the last decade and is estimated to employ more than three-quarters of all workers in the country. CGIAR has partnered with Ethiopia in its agricultural...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Using theory of change for outcome-oriented research

Research plays a key role in identifying challenges and opportunities that can be used to spur development in the livestock sector. Therefore, in conducting research one of the core objectives is to ensure it makes significant contribution towards improving livelihoods. Summary of Maziwa Zaidi...

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The power of ideas: New ways of thinking about gender can improve development outcomes

What does it mean to take gender seriously in development—and specifically in agriculture and livestock development? How can the international community promote economic development in ways that are both culturally sensitive and substantively equitable? What kinds of power are available to women in...

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Review team commences visits to Africa RISING activity sites

Mark Powell (back row, second from left), Nancy McCarthy (front row, center) and Christine Negra (front row, right) together with some Africa RISING project partners in northern Ghana (photo credit: Wilhelmina Ofori-Duah/IITA). After two months of document reviews (between July and August 2019),...

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Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Research helps parents ‘give milk’ to improve nutrition and livelihoods in Rwanda

This blog was originally posted on the Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems website. by Judy Kimani, International Livestock Research Institute Gabura Amata Mubyeyi , translated from Kinyarwanda, means “Parents, Give Milk.” This phrase communicates one of the core messages resulting from an ongoing...

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New Africa RISING training manual for building capacity in gender-sensitive research

Systematic integration of gender analysis in the design and activities of a project or program is now globally acknowledged as a prerequisite and best practice for development and deployment of sustainable agricultural interventions. But for most projects (and individual scientists by extension),...

  • Jonathan Odhong
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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in Ethiopia

ILRI news Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety programs in Ethiopia, 14–15 Feb 2019, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Left to right): Frank Arestrup, of the Technical University of Denmark; Kristina Rösel, of the International Livestock Research...

  • Kristina Rösel
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Assessing Somaliland’s bone and tallow value chains role towards economic growth

Despite over two decades of civil war and instability, livestock remains the leading economic sector in Somalia where domestic and export of animal products continue. In Somaliland, an autonomous region of Somalia located in the north, there are two main types of livestock production systems,...