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CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2020 annual report

The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) published its 2020 annual report on activities and accomplishments from its five research flagships: food systems for healthier diets; biofortification; food safety; supporting policies, programs, and enabling action through...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

In Ethiopia, all-women livestock-breeding program yields multiple benefits

Abebayehu sure knows her sheep. The 30-year old farmer, who lives in Serera Bukata village in the mountainous south of Ethiopia, has bred a number of multiple-awarding rams. But up until 2018, she wasn’t allowed to sell her sheep in the market – or make decisions about when and if to do so. “It was...

  • Monica Evans
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...

  • wanderaojanji
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...

  • wanderaojanji
AgHealth blog

Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 side event discusses the role of informal markets within future food systems

The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 takes place on 7–8 December 2021. The summit comes at a critical time, midway through the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition, with only five years left to achieve the World Health Assembly targets on maternal, infant and young child nutrition,...

Mazingira blog

Environmental externalities and greenhouse gas emissions from water pans and bomas in pastoral systems

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, and ILRI’s Mazingira Centre join forces to study the role of water pans and bomas in pastoral systems On Oct 25, Gretchen Gettel and Tibor Stigter from IHE Delft arrived at the Mazingira Center in Nairobi. Together with...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Strengthening engagement capacity of partners through community conversations and communities of practice in Menz Mama, Ethiopia

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works in close collaboration with national research and development partners. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (Livestock CRP) in Ethiopia used collaborative engagement approaches to strengthen partners’ capacity to uptake technical and...

  • Mamusha Lemma , Abiro Tigabie
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy: the tech that’s taking the guess-work out of assessing feed quality

Feed quality is a critical issue for livestock production across the developing world. With better feed, livestock are both healthier and more productive, meaning more food can be produced on less land and with lower greenhouse gas emissions. But most livestock keepers across sub-Saharan Africa and...

  • Monica Evans
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

A new toolkit is transforming rangeland management in Tunisia

Over a third of Tunisia’s land surface is made up of natural rangelands, which support herds of both wild and domestic animals through their native grasses, forbs (herbaceous flowering plants) and shrubs. But the majority (87%) of these rangelands are in arid and desert areas, and erratic...

  • Monica Evans
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Agripreneurs in Tanzania can play a dynamic role in upgrading Tanzania’s smallholder dairy value chain

Boot camp noun a short, intensive, and rigorous course of training; also, a means to catalyse agripreneurs to adopt a package of technical products, innovations and services that can help dairy farmers in Tanzania boost their productivity. The CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Livestock, led by...

  • Catherine Njuguna
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Uncovering the role of Tunisian camels in spreading the Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus

The scientific study described here was made possible through the support and collaboration of CGIAR's Research Program on Livestock (CRP Livestock) and the National School of Veterinary Medicine of Sidi Thabet in Tunisia. To many people, camels conjure up romantic images of deserts and cloaked...

  • Mourad Rekik, Mohamed Gharbi, Faten Bouaicha , Khawla El Ati
Mazingira blog

Digging into Bomas

In a new international research effort, scientists from ILRI’s Mazingira Centre (Kenya), Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (Germany), and the Sustainable Agroecosystems Group at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) are teaming up to take a sharp look at the underlying mechanisms of nitrous oxide (N 2 O)...