Kenyan President Kenyatta headlines national conference at ILRI Nairobi on...
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the 400 guests at the national conference of the Feed the Future Accelerated Value Chain Development program at ILRI on 27 Apr 2018. US Ambassador to Kenya...
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This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pastoral Maasai communities, with images of a Maasai kraal homestead (upper left) and communal herding...
View Article#ThrowbackThursday Video—Misku and Gebremichael’s stories
Don’t miss these two superb and VERY short videos describing how new ideas in animal husbandry are transforming Ethiopian incomes, animal pastures and livestock livelihoods. Misku’s Story A 40-year...
View ArticleILRI develops a feed constraint decision-making tool, G-FEAST
A workshop in Dehra Dun, India, to develop a tool for feed technology screening and prioritization (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Seven years ago, the International Livestock Research...
View ArticleA tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research...
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). The board, directors and staff of the...
View ArticleILRI feed technology research platform makes more fodder available to...
Gujar nomads with buffalo near Mussorie during the workshop to develop a tool for Feed Technology Screening and Prioritisation, Dehra Dun, India (photo credit: ILRI/Nils Teufel). Located at the...
View ArticleNew project to improve agricultural productivity in Zimbabwe
Cattle at a livestock market in Ukambani, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). A new European Union-funded ‘Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe’ (LIPS-Zim) project is working to increase...
View ArticleA new study gives insights on Napier (elephant) grass, a fast-growing...
Martha Anyango of Homabay County in her plot of improved napier grass (Ouma variety) planted in Tumbukiza holes (photo credit: AVCD/ FIPS R. Jumah) Napier grass, which is also known as elephant grass,...
View ArticleUpdated CGIAR feed database provides best-cost livestock feed rations for...
Fifty three new accessions of Napier grass received at Forage Genebank, ILRI, Addis Ababa from EMBRAPA, Brazil (photo credit: ILRI) An updated CGIAR livestock feeds database for sub-Saharan Africa is...
View ArticleFrom framework to implementation: ILRI Impact at Scale program publishes...
The Impact at Scale (I@S) program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has published the ‘Scaling Readiness report and scaling plan for training and certification approach for...
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