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Celebrating the world’s enduring, resilient, nature-friendly and productive rangelands and livestock herders

The United Nations Declare 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists Having a moment are millions of livestock herders worldwide and the many more people who appreciate these custodians of the world’s vast and stunning rangelands—the grasslands and savannas, the prairies and...

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‘Drylands and Rangelands: Harnessing Change’ at Global Landscapes Forum in New York

The International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) is delighted to announce that a session devoted to drylands and rangelands is being incorporated in the agenda of a big event of the estimable Global Landscapes Forum , which is taking place all day tomorrow, in New York City. The theme of...

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Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020

Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization ( KALRO ) and Kenya State Department of Livestock within the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries & Irrigation ( MALFI ) are organizing next year’s Joint 24th International Grasslands and International Rangelands Congress in...

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African livestock: A terrible thing to waste

Six Buck, lino print by San/Bushman artist Flai Shipipa via Pinterest. Care about ‘sustainable agriculture’ in Africa? Then you should care about livestock. Take a look at the evidence as reported earlier this year in a scientific paper published by researchers at the International Livestock...

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Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation Ethiopian highlands project technical report, 1 April–30 September 2018

Summary In its second phase, Africa RISING targeted to reach 0.7 million direct beneficiary households and 3.4 million indirect potential beneficiary households. Parallelly, the project continues to conduct action research that will explore further generic issues and facilitate scaling of the...

  • Simret Yasabu
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Africa RISING Phase I—what it took, what it gave, our proudest achievements

Telling a complete story about the entire Phase I of Africa RISING program in one blog post is a challenging task. But if you are looking for the tell-all of the program’s first phase, please take a look at the recently published report Footprints of Africa RISING—Phase I: 2011–2016 . As you can...

  • Jonathan Odhong
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What sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems looks like in Ethiopia—case of the Africa RISING project

In this video, Peter Thorne, the Africa RISING project coordinator in Ethiopia, and Melkamu Bezabih, a postdoctoral livestock feeds and nutrition researcher, talk about sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems in Ethiopia in the Africa RISING project. This video was recorded during an...

  • Simret Yasabu
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Cleaning up assessments of livestock-environment systems in developing countries with CLEANED

Dairy cow in Tanga, Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). As a vegetarian, my occupation as a livestock scientist might come as an odd choice. But here’s the thing: Livestock science isn’t about promoting meat eating; it’s about investigating better ways of farming meat so we don’t harm the...

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Can we sustainably meet the growing demand for meat in developing countries?—Yes, says Louise Fresco

An auroch symbol of Adad (Hadad), storm and rain god of ancient Mesopotamian religions, on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, 575 BCE (photographed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin). The following argument for continuing to use livestock to use the planet’s full ecological potential is made by Louise...

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Role of soil bunds on soil and water conservation in southern Ethiopia

A report by the Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program explains the effects of soil bunds on soil and rainwater conservation in Ethiopia. The study by the International Water Management Institute (IMWI) and the International Center for...

  • Simret Yasabu
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Shallow wells cushion smallholders in Mali and Ghana from the effects of climate variability

Shortage of water supply for domestic and livestock consumption, high temperatures associated with erosive and turbulent winds, poor rainfall patterns, and poor vegetation cover are just but a few of the common impacts of climate variability globally. In the Sahel region of Africa, these impacts...

  • Jonathan Odhong