Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world
Mixed crop-and-livestock farms will, more than the traditional breadbaskets and rice bowls of the past, feed the developing world over the next few decades
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Our work on human health and nutrition – Feedback received
As part of our work on a new strategy for ILRI, Delia asked some questions related to ILRI’s work at the interface of animal and human health. If you have some further ideas or comments triggered by this post, please feel free to share them! With thanks to those people who replied, here’s a quick … Continue reading
Friday Morning Coffee – Nairobi, May 11, 2012
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Listen In! Continue reading
Strategy consultations with staff – feedback on ILRI ‘success’ as well as ‘likes and dislikes’
During the visit of George Levvy as consultant to the strategy task force, we organized as series of face to face and virtual conversations with staff. We asked two main sets of questions: 1. what would success for ILRI look like in the future? 2. What do you think we should keep and change about … Continue reading
Bill Payne to be Director of the CRP on Dryland Systems
Dr William (Bill) Payne will join ICARDA as the Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Dry Areas (CRP1.1 Dryland Systems). Bill, who is an American citizen, received his MSc and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University in Soils Science. Since 2000, … Continue reading
Interim changes to the Biotech Theme management
Jimmy Smith recently updated staff on changes in our Biotechnology Theme: The new ILRI’s long-term strategy that we’re now developing will help us plan for ILRI’s biotech future. But we’re going to make some interim changes in our biotechnology theme. We’ve been talking to many donors to attract their interest to biotech, and one has … Continue reading
ILRI Strategy – Follow the conversations
In the past ten days, we have accelerated our discussions and engagement across ILRI and beyond. We have posed questions and asked for feedback from the wider world; we have convened small group discussions inside ILRI, and we have some internal questions as well. Last week, we brought together a dozen scientists from the Addis … Continue reading
ILRI strategy – Progress update and next steps from Shirley
Dear Colleagues You’ll have noticed the strategy process gaining some momentum in recent days! Firstly, let me say a big thank you to everyone who has already contributed comments or helped to share the story line and tough issues with partners. We want to give you as much opportunity as possible to contribute to the … Continue reading
ILRI strategy: Research on livestock and the environment – how much should ILRI do?
Society has realized there are significant pressures on the world’s food and ecological systems, where the alterations of global biogeochemical cycles could be irreversible and where new drivers, such as climate change, are likely to exert additional pressures for sustainably feeding 9 billion people in the future. At the same time, and especially in the … Continue reading
ILRI strategy – Taking our work on human health and nutrition forward
As part of our strategy development process, the strategy task force identified several ‘tough issues’ where we are seeking insights and feedback from external partners. One of the areas concerns ways that we can best ‘address the interface of animal and human health.’ In working up the questions, Delia identified some questions we would like to … Continue reading
Friday Morning Coffee – Nairobi, May 4, 2012
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Listen In! Continue reading
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