Dear Colleagues, Please be advised that the following dates will be observed as official holidays of ILRI Ethiopia: Ethiopian New Year will be observed on Saturday, 11 September 2021. Since this official holiday falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday, 10 September 2021 will be observed as a holiday; The finding of the True Cross (Meskel) … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Africa
Business card request form
Business card request form is moved to our internet https://ilrinet.ilri.org/ . Please enter your usual ILRI login credentials to access the link. If you have any queries or encounter any problems, contact Daniel Haile-Michael for any technical/web issues; Apollo Habtamu (Addis) for any design queries. We have tested this process within the communications group and … Continue reading
ILRI E&SEA office will close
Dear colleagues, Please be advised that ILRI E&SEA office will close during February 4th – 8th, 2019 for Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Traditional Tet holidays). We will resume on February 11th, 2019. You can see in the card below, 2019 is the year of the PIG for Vietnam, China and any country celebrating this Lunar … Continue reading
ILRI International staff appointments: September–December 2014
Raphael Mrode joined ILRI as principal scientist in quantitative dairy cattle genetics on 15 September 2014. He holds a PhD in animal breeding and genetics and has been involved in the development and research underpinning genetic evaluations in dairy and beef cattle in the United Kingdom over the last 20 years. He has previously been … Continue reading
Conference call: Policies for competitive smallholder livestock production
In March 2015, the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) in collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) will hold a conference with the theme “Policies for Competitive Smallholder Livestock Production”. The Conference Program Committee is calling for papers/posters that address the various development … Continue reading
Sikhalazo Dube: Regional representative, southern Africa
Pleased to introduce you to Sikhalazo Dube, from Zimbabwe who will take up the position of Regional Representative for Southern Africa based in Harare, Zimbabwe, beginning 1 November 2014. Sikhalazo is a full professor and until recently was a Research Team Manager: Rangelands Management and Forage Program at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC)-Animal Production Institute … Continue reading
ILRI Southern Africa update from Boni – April 2013
This report from Boni Moyo presents highlights on institute wide activities in southern Africa for the period April, 2013. Highlights about on-going projects are captured elsewhere through special project reports or mission reports. Since this is the first report from this region this year, I have decided to include the list of current projects in … Continue reading