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SAPLING initiative’s stakeholder consultation proposes priority activities for northwest Vietnam

Livestock is an essential income source for many small-scale farmers in Northwest Vietnam, who may own only a few animals (photo credit: ILRI) In the local Thai dialect in Vietnam’s Northwest Region ‘Chan-henh’ means ‘good and better’. It is also the short name of the CGIAR Initiative on...

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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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From national to local level: Leveraging SafePORK impacts on food safety in Vietnam

Since 2017, the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI )-led ‘Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam’ or SafePORK project has been developing and evaluating market-based ways of improving the safety of food to reduce the burden of food-borne diseases in the...

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Genetic gains research to transform smallholder chicken farming in Southeast Asia

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led Asian Chicken Genetic Gains , or AsCGG, project is improving smallholder chicken production by increasing access to locally acceptable, adapted and highly productive chickens in Southeast Asia. Launched in May 2021, AsCGG is funded by the...

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New One CGIAR initiative to transform livestock productivity, nutrition and gender inclusion in northwest Vietnam

A two-day workshop, 20-21 April 2022, kicked off the One CGIAR initiative on Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender Inclusion ( SAPLING ) in Son La Province, Northwest Vietnam. The workshop brought together 80 key stakeholders from the province including local...

Science and technology: a driving force in sustainable agricultural development

(The roundtable discussion was published on VnEconomy Newspaper on 22 December 2021) Drastic changes in the agro-forestry-fisheries sector have been seen in recent years because of scientific research, technical advances, and modern agricultural production and processing technologies. With...

AVCD program blog

Nandi Potato Cooperative driving potato to an enterprising commercial crop in Nandi County

Members of the Nandi Potato Cooperative Society weigh their seed potato harvest at their farm in Nandi County. Around 2015, Nandi County with its vast agricultural land and potential had only about 70 farmers growing potatoes on about 70 hectares (ha), according to Silas Too, potato value chain...

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AVCD program blog

How DFAs are rejuvenating the dairy industry in Homa Bay and Siaya counties

Okal Okoko, at his Okasambu Dairy Farm in Oyugis, Homa Bay Before 2019, Kasbondo Dairy Cooperative, in Oyugis, Homa Bay County used to receive 300-350 litres of milk per day from less than 25 farmers with only three of them able supply 60 litres per day. Across the region in Siaya County, SAM...

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Art exhibition showcases artist and farmer view of livestock development in Vietnam

About 120 artworks and photos on livestock from the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum and the Livestock-led Interventions towards Equitable Livelihoods and Improved Environment in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam , otherwise known as the Li-chăn project, will be displayed in an exhibition to be...

Art exhibition showcases artist and farmer view of livestock development in Vietnam

About 120 artworks and photos on livestock from the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum and the Livestock-led Interventions towards Equitable Livelihoods and Improved Environment in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam , otherwise known as the Li-chăn project, will be displayed in an exhibition to be...

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Une approche « chaine de valeur » pour l’Initiative du One CGIAR sur la productivité animale durable au Mali

Value chain approach needed for the One CGIAR sustainable animal productivity initiative in Mali

  • Mourad Rekik
    (ICARDA)
AVCD program blog

New drought-tolerant varieties rekindle hopes of food security in drought-prone Makueni County

A happy and hopeful Wilson Lati at his drought-tolerant Sorghum farm in Emali/Mulala Ward in Makueni Hoping against hope of decent harvests, farmers in the semi-arid and arid regions of eastern Kenya have always planted their traditional and favourite food crops – pigeonpea, green gram, sorghum,...

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