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
Category Archives: Agriculture
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
Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change
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
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
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