For people living in absolute poverty and chronic hunger, the solution is not to rid the world of livestock, but to find ways to farm animals more efficiently and more sustainably Continue reading
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Training on Gender Mainstreaming for AGP coordinators and focal Persons
Ephrem Tessema, from IPMS project jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture women’s affairs directorate, conducted a four day training (Nov.16-18) on gender mainstreaming to sixty Agricultural Growth Program (AGP) coordinators and focal persons in Adama. The gender training is part of a 10 day training that is organized by the AGP of the Ministry of … Continue reading
Agriculture / Event / ILRI
ILRI presents at the 7th international conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists
On 13-15 October 2011, a number of ILRI colleagues attended the 7th international conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists in Hanoi, Vietnam to present papers. ILRI had organized two parallel sessions, (1) Food safety policy in developing country context: examples from case studies in livestock value chains and( 2) Assessing the impact of … Continue reading
Agriculture / Event / ILRI / IPMS
IPMS steering committee meeting
IPMS project held it’s biannual steering committee meeting in the ILRI DG conference room on October 13th, 2011. Updates of the past six month activities in areas of knowledge management, capacity development, and commodity development were put forward. Discussion on efforts being made by the project and its partners to mainstream the IPMS activities into … Continue reading
BecA Hub – New Appointment
Leah Ndungu has been appointed Project Coordinator- BecA effective 01 July 2011. She will be responsible for managing and coordinating a new collaborative project between Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, and the Biosciences eastern and central Africa – International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub. Leah holds a PhD in Veterinary Science with … Continue reading
Welcoming Hailemichael Taye to ILRI
Hailemichael has joined the ‘Innovation in Livestock Systems (MK01) team as a Research Technician and will be based in Addis Ababa. He will be working in various research projects in which the team is involved. Hailemichael holds an Advanced MA degree in Development Evaluation and Management from the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University … Continue reading
Welcoming Birgit Boogaard to ILRI
Please join us in welcoming Birgit Boogaard to ILRI! Birgit is joining the “Small ruminant value chains to reduce poverty and increase food security in India and Mozambique (imGoats)” project as a Post Doctoral Fellow effective 15 June 2011. Birgit will be based in Vilanculos, Mozambique. She will lead imGoats research activities in Mozambique in … Continue reading
Birke Enyew joins Capacity Strengthening (CaSt-Addis)
Birke Enyew Joins the Capacity Strengthening Unit of ILRI-Addis as a Program Assistant on June 1, 2011. Birke has a BA degree in Sociology and Social Administration from Addis Ababa University and a Diploma in Secretarial Science and Office Management from Junior College of Commerce. We hope many of you already know Birke, who has … Continue reading
New faces in Biotechnology Theme, May 2011
Please join us in welcoming new staff at Biotech, that joined in May 2011 … Evelyn Katingi Evelyn will devote 50% of her time to Biotech between May and December 2011 as the information and communication officer. Her main role is to facilitate the Theme web communications and working together with ILRI Public Awareness, draft … Continue reading
New faces in the Biotechnology Theme (April 2011)
Anne Liljander, Post Doc CBPP, BT01 team joined 1st April 2011. Anne, a Swedish national, holds a Phd in Infectious Diseases from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden awarded in 2010. Her PhD project was on Malaria: Multiclonal infections and protective immunity. Anne is part of the GTZ funded CBPP project where she will be rrequired to ensure … Continue reading
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