Dear Colleagues, An opportunity is available for PhD students and other junior researchers to enrol in a Summer School on Modelling Food Security. Attached is the announcement which also provides a link for more information. summerschool2019_announcement Continue reading
Category Archives: Knowledge and Information
Welcoming Sarah Kasyoka–communications and knowledge management specialist
Dear colleagues It is my pleasure to introduce Sarah Kasyoka who joined ILRI in June 2018 as the Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist. Sarah will be based in Nairobi. Sarah will be with the Sustainable Livestock Systems (SLS) program. She brings on board a decade-long career in the areas of; communications, advocacy, knowledge management, capacity building and … 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
ILRI NEWS BLOG: No one dietary choice is the answer to sustainable development ILRI/Jimmy Smith in ‘The Guardian’ yesterday
Illustration via Twitter. The following opinion piece, by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), was first published in The Guardian on 16 Aug 2016, in response to an opinion piece published by environmental reporter George Monbiot in the same paper on 9 Aug 2016 (I’ve converted to veganism to reduce … Continue reading
Publishing and communications guidelines update
Some years ago, ILRI management approved an institutional strategy on research publishing with overall information on goals and channels we use. This is supplemented by several guidelines covering specific process and procedures on different aspects of this work. Below is a list of all these guidelines. Guidelines 2, 3 and 4 date from 2013 and … Continue reading
Nairobi Infocentre re-organization
Colleagues Some of you will/may notice some ongoing changes in the Nairobi infocentre space. We are re-organizing the space to provide better quiet areas and study space as well as working space for the CKM people located there. Most of this should be completed later this week. There are no engineering works at this time; … Continue reading
Reminder on ILRI communications, templates, etc.
This message aims to remind staff where powerpoint and letterhead and document templates – and some other useful communication resources – can be found: We use ILRI announcements as the primary mechanism to broadcast (and remember) updates to all staff. This was decided late in 2014 as a way to reduce the number of messages … Continue reading
Access to Scopus for ILRI staff
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It delivers a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. It features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research, which has become increasingly global, … Continue reading
Liya Dejene to be communications fellow at the CGIAR Consortium
Liya Dejene from CKM has been appointed as the 2015-2016 Communications Fellow at the Consortium Office. She starts on 1 October, for one year joining the Consortium Office Strategy team. She joins Metasebia and Benjamin – both ICT fellows – in bringing ILRI expertise to Montpellier. The Consortium Communications Fellowship is going into its third year. The … Continue reading
Making your research more visible – 5 tools for ILRI authors, scientists, staff
ILRI’s communications and KM group has put in place many institutional mechanisms and tools to make ILRI research visible on the Internet and beyond (CGSpace for example). Increasingly, individual authors and scientists can do a lot more of this themselves. Here are 5 things you can do to make your ILRI work more visible (it … Continue reading
ILRI Announcements 