Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarships 2016 – calls for applications

    ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Animal science for sustainable Productivity (ASSP) – Small ruminant value chain development(Closing date: 18 March 2016) ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Capacity Development (closing date: 18 March 2016) ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Food Safety and Zoonosis Project – FoodAfrica Phase 2 Project (closing date: 18 March 2016) ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Livestock Systems and … Continue reading

Engineering / Ethiopia / ILRI / Official

ILRI Ethiopia – Power outage

Please note that on Saturday 5th of March 2016,  the engineering team has planned to carry out cable re connection, and cable insulation measurement works around areas of Bonga, Gumuz , Motor pool and Borena, which will be affected by the power outage from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. Some PPM works on the generator set will take place at the same time and if the main … Continue reading

Ethiopia / ILRI / Official

CIMMYT-Ethiopia New Staff – Solomon Alemu

CIMMYT-Ethiopia is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Solomon Alemu who joined CIMMYT as a Research Associate for CIMMYT-Ethiopia/Socioeconomics Program, based in Addis Ababa, effective December 1st, 2015. Solomon has MSc degree in Economics from University of Trento, Italy (March, 2013) and BSc degree in Agricultural Resource Economics from University of Hawassa (June, 2006). … Continue reading

Ethiopia / ILRI / Official / POD

CIMMYT – Ethiopia new staff – Ayalneh Tilahun

CIMMYT-Ethiopia is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ayalneh Tilahun as a Research Associate for CIMMYT-Ethiopia/GMP-Maize Seed Systems, based in Addis Ababa, effective December 15th, 2015. Ayalneh’s qualifications include BSc degree in Plant Production and Dryland Farming (Hawassa University, 2003), MSc degree in Plant Breeding (Haramaya University, 2009) and BA degree in Business Administration … Continue reading

Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

Help improve the Livestock CRP proposal – contribute your ideas and experiences

As you know, CGIAR centres and partners are currently developing a portfolio of second phase ‘agri-food system’ research programs. As part of this process, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is leading development of a phase 2 livestock Agri-food Systems research program proposal. Building on past work in the Livestock and Fish and other programs, … Continue reading

ACGG / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

Olivier Hanotte joined the ILRI LiveGene team in Addis Ababa

Welcome to Professor Olivier Hanotte who recently joined the ILRI LiveGene team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Olivier is not really a newcomer. He worked at ILRI-Nairobi from July, 1995 to December, 2008 supervising a team of scientists at ILRI- Kenya, ILRI – Ethiopia and at the joint ILRI-CAAS laboratory China. In January 2009, Olivier left … Continue reading