Thursday Links A biweekly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff, by David Aronson. Tanzania now boasts the second-largest cattle herds in Africa, behind only Ethiopia, says the Tanzania Bureau of Statistics. Their number apparently climbed to 30.5 million in … Continue reading
Category Archives: CKM
Institutes’ items require permit before entering Ethiopia
Dear Colleagues, Please be aware that any items of the institutes’ (more specifically electronics) that needs to be brought in into Ethiopia for research purposes or other use must come through DHL or Cargo services. It is crucial we take a note of this and act accordingly. We are seeing more and more staff travelling … Continue reading
Update on Zambia Off-Grid Investor Forum (Lusaka, 12-13 June 2018)
Update on Zambia Off-Grid Investor Forum 12-13 June 2018 With less than a month until the event organised by ARE and GOGLA, we would like to advise you to start picking your favorite sessions and networking opportunities. Take a look at the preliminary agenda below or visit the conference website for additional information. With more … Continue reading
Week ahead May 28–June 3, 2018
Colleagues – Greetings! During the week of May 28–June 3, 2018 the following activities will take place at ILRI: ILRI Nairobi ILRI East and Southeast Asia ILRI Addis ILRI South Asia w.mania) Integrated Sciences Directorate: May 29–31: Iain Wright will participate in the World Milk Day celebrations and give a Keynote presentation at the National … Continue reading
Thursday links—by David Aronson
Thursday Links A biweekly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff, by David Aronson. ‘It is burping, not farting’, says ILRI’s Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, setting the record straight about how cows produce methane and impact the environment on All Things Considered, … Continue reading
Changes in the Communications and Knowledge Management Unit
Due to a reorganization within the CKM Unit teams in Addis Ababa and Nairobi, the following changes (below) will come into effect on 1 February. For the details on all the services provided at CKM and those responsible see: https://ilri-comms.wikispaces.com/CKM+transition+responsibilities ILRI subscriptions ILRI has significantly increased the number of journals included in its Elsevier and … Continue reading
Parmilia Yeshitella Joined CKM
Parmilia Yeshitella has joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Communication and Knowledge Management (CKM) team as support services assistant starting January 2018. She has MSc degree in business information technology and a post graduate diploma in human resource management from University of Mysore, India. Previously, she worked as assistant to the project manager for … Continue reading
ILRI style guide updated
The latest version of the ILRI style guide by the Communications and Knowledge Management Unit is available on the ILRI Comms wiki. The guide is designed to ensure consistency within and across Institute publications, in language usage, visual composition, orthography and typography. Its primary purpose is to promote best practice in: ethics (authorship, open access, … Continue reading
Subscribing to ILRI news and publication updates and internal announcements with email
Dear colleagues Recently we helped ILRI Board members set up email subscriptions so they can ‘follow’ ILRI news and updates via email. This might also be something useful for you, so I am sending a similar message with the key information you may need to sign up. All ILRI project and program websites have ‘subscribe’ … Continue reading
Updating your ILRI email signature and using updated templates
Colleagues This is a polite reminder. The CGIAR consortium does not exist after July so we changed our email signature to say ‘ILRI is a CGIAR research centre‘ instead of any mention of the consortium. Please take a few minutes to update it. Further information and guidance is at https://announcements.ilri.org/2016/07/20/please-update-your-ilri-email-signature/ and http://ict.worldagroforestry-ilri.org/node/366 We also updated … Continue reading
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