Event / ILRI / ILVAC / Kenya / Official

Webex link for Joerg Jores seminar on diagnostic and synthetic Biology

Dear All, The webex connection for the above seminar is as below: Diagnostic & Synthetic Biology Seminar presentation Friday, January 30, 2015 11:00 am | Nairobi Time (Nairobi, GMT+03:00) | 1 hr Join WebEx meeting Meeting number: 847 285 903 Meeting password: 7412 Join by phone 0800-051-3810 Call-in toll-free number (UK) +44-203-478-5289 Call-in toll number … Continue reading

Event / ICT / ILRI / Kenya / Official

ILRI Kenya ICT departmental meeting on Friday, November 14

Please be informed that ICT staff members will be attending a departmental meeting off campus tomorrow November 14, 2014 from 2:00pm to 4:30pm. During this time requests will be handled by our technicians. Kindly forward any urgent ICT requests to ilrikehelpdesk tomorrow before 12:00pm. We apologize for any inconveniences that may be caused. Kind regards, … Continue reading

Event / ILRI / Official

Transport to 6th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture (AACAA), KICC, Tuesday 28 October

As you know, the 6th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture (AACAA) is being held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre from 27-30 October. Meeting every four years, the AACAA assembly provides a forum for researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders to share scientific findings and experiences in animal agriculture in Africa and beyond. … Continue reading

Event / ILRI / Kenya / Official

Seminar talk: Site-directed genome editing: an innovative technology for plant breeding

You are hereby invited for the above Seminar Talk by Prof. Kan Wang on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, starting 1130hrs through to 1230hrs. The venue will be the Ndama Lounge. Prof. Kan Wang is the Director of plant transformation facility in Iowa State University. She developed plant transformation facilities for public. This facility was the … Continue reading

Event / ILRI / Kenya / Official

Climate change and smallholder households – seminar by Silvia Silvestri

You are all invited to an ILRI Livestock Systems and Environment Seminar ‘Climate Change and smallholder households across multiple dimensions: perception, adaptation and barriers to adoption’ Silvia Silvestri is a senior scientist, environment and livelihoods, at ILRI since 2010. As an environmental social scientist she has over 12 years of professional experience at the intersection … Continue reading

Agriculture / Article / Event / ILRI / IPMS

Highlights of the April 2012 IPMS steering committee meeting

The IPMS project held its semi-annual steering committee meeting in Addis Ababa on April 17, 2012. Representatives from the Oromia, SNNP and Tigray bureau’s of agriculture/research; IPMS RDOs; CIDA representatives; and IPMS headquarters staff attended. Iain Wright, Director of PLE and DG representative in Ethiopia chaired the meeting. The main agendas of the day were … Continue reading

Agriculture / Event / ILRI

ILRI presents at the 7th international conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists

On 13-15 October 2011, a number of ILRI colleagues attended the 7th international conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists in Hanoi, Vietnam to present papers. ILRI had organized two parallel sessions, (1) Food safety policy in developing country context: examples from case studies in livestock value chains and( 2) Assessing the impact of … Continue reading