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Communication coalition helping rainfed systems research program to ‘keep the flame’

Participants at the research planning for rainfed systems Strategic Research Program (SRP) and Ecosystem Crosscutting Theme workshop (Credit: ILRI/Ewen Le Borgne) The CGIAR world is currently in a whirlwind of workshops coinciding with the launch of various large research programs or of specific...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Maarifa blog

CGIAR knowledge sharing – connecting researchers and farmers

In its RIO+20 Call-to-action , CGIAR called for knowledge sharing systems that engage with smallholder farmers to improve the management of their crops, livestock and natural resources in order to increase production as well as minimize negative environmental impacts. Four CGIAR knowledge...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
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Angeline Wafula – new KMIS staff member in Nairobi

Angeline Wafula, Knowledge Sharing and Communications Officer Angela, as she prefers, is the new Knowledge Sharing and Communications Officer based at ILRI Nairobi campus. A communication and public relations graduate of Moi University, with journalism and environmental communications background,...

  • Angeline Nekesa
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Using open knowledge and innovation to support program learning at ILRI

This week in Addis Ababa, the The USAID-funded TOPS Program held a Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting to bring together food security and nutrition grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking ( see event program...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
Safe Food Fair Food blog

In the news: Most pork in Kampala is unsafe, say health experts

An article in Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper (6 June 2012) reports that a senior veterinary officer with the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has warned that most of the pork on sale in Kampala is prepared unhygienically and, thus, is unfit for human consumption. Another article in Uganda’s...

Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food, Fair Food project develops strategy for engagement with regional economic communities

L to R: Participants Fred Onyango (ILRI), Daouda Dao (Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques), Kristina Rösel (ILRI/Free University Berlin), Erastus Kang’ethe (University of Nairobi) and Saskia Hendrickx (ILRI), and facilitator Julius Nyangaga (International Institute for Rural Reconstruction)...

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Komms Klinics reloaded: Get smarter about research information, knowledge and communication at ILRI

ILRI staff, other CGIAR centers and partner organizations involved in research for development all have to work with information, knowledge and communication. In fact they all do it, continuously. Research is indeed about information, knowledge and communication too, whether alone, in teams and in...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Maarifa blog

Voices from the field: Using multimedia to tell livestock stories

Screenshot of one of the ILRI photofilms In 2010 the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) started making photofilms to capture event highlights and to tell stories about people who depend on livestock for their livelihoods, food, income and cropping. What are photofilms? A photofilm...

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Social learning and climate change: CGIAR and partners in the (local) decision-making whirlwind

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security ( CCAFS ) last week convened a workshop on communication and social learning in climate change. How did we tackle to challenge of facilitating a ‘social learning’ process with a room full of facilitators and communicators?...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Maarifa blog

Getting the right content for ICTs in India

A new IFPRI discussion paper authored by Claire Glendenning (IFPRI) and Pier-Paolo Ficarelli (ILRI) examines content development and management processes occurring in six well-known ICT projects in Indian agriculture. Though there are differences in scale and mechanisms of delivery and feedback,...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
Maarifa blog

Goats and Trees: 10 weeks as a KMIS intern at ILRI, Addis Ababa

On 26 January 2012, Kara Brown travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to begin a 10-week internship with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Knowledge Management & Information Services (KMIS). Here she reflects on her days in Addis Ababa – the ideas were initially shared with ILRI...

  • Kara Brown
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Second phase of the Safe Food, Fair Food project gets underway

Delia Grace introduces the participants of the Safe Food, Fair Food 2 inception workshop to ILRI staff at Friday Morning Coffee (photo credit: ILRI/Kristina Rösel). On 12–13 April 2012, the Nairobi campus of the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) hosted an inception meeting for the...