With the move of the Poverty, Gender and Impacts Team to the Markets, Gender and Livelihoods Theme we reviewed where best our work in Index-Based Livestock Insurance fitted within the ILRI research management structure. The discussions have centered around:- a) how can the team be best supported to carry out their activities and generate the … Continue reading
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Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund-2012 Research Fellowships
The Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF) is a competitive grant that enables scientists from national research institutes and universities within the eastern and central Africa region to conduct research at the world-class research facilities of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Hub at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya. Biosciences eastern … Continue reading
Next call for applications for AWARD Fellowships set for August 2012
AWARD is planning its second phase of fellowships for African women in agricultural research, with a view to completing its first five-year grant in August 2012. “We are celebrating the success to date of our AWARD Fellows—250 African women agricultural scientists from 11 countries. We are also thankful for the 216 senior scientists—both men and … Continue reading
The Livestock CoP Network
Dear Livestock Colleagues – We need your help-only 5 minutes of your time! Please help us identify priority areas for investments to improve livestock data available to decision makers by participating in a very short survey – 8 questions, about 5 minutes. The questionnaire, designed by the World Bank-FAO-International Livestock Research Institute’s Livestock Data Innovation … Continue reading
Course announcements and Fellowship availability
ICRA training programmes: The courses are the following ones:- 1. Design & Management of Interactive Learning in Rural Innovation – 5 – 23 November 2012 (DM-IAL2012),Wageningen, The Netherlands. This course is for professionals from research, extension, farmer organizations and private sector, working in rural innovation networks, who are involved in designing, facilitating and coaching on-the-job … Continue reading
Winrock International Opportunity
Title: Program Director, Agriculture Client: Winrock International (http://www.winrock.org) Location: TBD – Little Rock, AR or Arlington, VA Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Program emphasis includes education and children and youth leadership, … Continue reading
Meeting held to discuss Osun beef chain development project
On 30 January 2012, the ILRI Ibadan office hosted Osun State delegates at a meeting on “Innovative beef chain development: an abattoir-based business hub model”. Pictured below are the workshop participants. Contributed by Kemi Olaobaju January 2012 Continue reading
Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world
Mixed crop-and-livestock farms will, more than the traditional breadbaskets and rice bowls of the past, feed the developing world over the next few decades Continue reading
Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism
Expert opinion agrees that the best way to tap into the potential of the drylands is to build on the foundation of their livestock economies rather than ignoring them or seeking to replace them. Continue reading
Why animals matter to human health and nutrition
Human, livestock and environmental health are inextricably linked, Sixty-one per cent of all diseases are ‘zoonotic’ –that is, transmissible between animals and humans. Continue reading
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