In February we hosted two visitors from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and there were meetings in Nairobi on the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). Continue reading
Dear Colleagues, Please be informed that Engineering staff shall be holding their monthly meeting tomorrow Thursday, February 22, 2018 from 10.30am to 12.30pm. We shall therefore not be available to handle maintenance jobs during that time. Send any critical maintenance requirements for our attention by 9.00am tomorrow. We regret any inconveniences that this may cause. … Continue reading
I spent a considerable amount of time this month developing the livestock component of the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) program. This is an initiative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) as part of the Feed Africa Strategy. Continue reading
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
Nationally recruited staff (NRS) appointment—Nairobi Geoffrey Muiruri joined International Livestock Research Institution (ILRI) in October as program accountant. He was formerly working at Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development which is a policy research institute owned by Egerton University, where he served as the Project Accountant. In his career, he has supported organisations to … Continue reading
Today, Friday 26 January, DFID has announced CGIAR funding of £90m over 3 years. Press Release: UK aid backs ground-breaking British research into ‘super-crops’ Livestream Facebook announcement at 14:35-14:45 GMT Continue reading
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) will convene a pre-conference symposium on the topic of Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Low-Income, Late-Transforming Countries as part of the next International Conference of Agricultural Economists (July 28 – August 2, 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada). The workshop will be held on July 28. Rural Transformation refers to the … Continue reading
As we enter 2018, I want to send you and your families best wishes for the coming year and remind you that we live in a much more safer world than any of our ancestors did. Continue reading
We are starting to consider how ILRI’s research might contribute to reducing the need for migration and how the livestock sector could be leveraged to provide greater economic opportunities, employment and livelihoods, especially for young people, not only in livestock keeping but all along the livestock value chains. Continue reading
ILRI Kenya Stores Unit will carry out the 2017 End Year Stock-take exercise from 21st – 22nd December 2017. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended to. You are therefore kindly requested to submit your Warehouse Order requests through the OCS by mid-day, Tuesday 19th December 2017. Normal operations will resume on Thursday, … Continue reading
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