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
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
Expert opinion agrees that the best way to tap into the potential of the drylands is to build on the foundation of their livestock economies rather than ignoring them or seeking to replace them.
Human, livestock and environmental health are inextricably linked, Sixty-one per cent of all diseases are ‘zoonotic’ –that is, transmissible between animals and humans.
For people living in absolute poverty and chronic hunger, the solution is not to rid the world of livestock, but to find ways to farm animals more efficiently and more sustainably
New staff update from Human Resources ( January – April 2012) Click here to download (PDF file – 684 KB) Continue reading
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Listen In! Continue reading
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Listen In! Continue reading
As mentioned in the recent process update, the strategy development Task Force has developed a ‘storyline’ to set out the overall concept that underpins our new strategy. This is very much work in progress, it is very draft, and it needs further tightening up. We need your feedback on this document [download here or read … Continue reading
In February and March many of you gave feedback and suggestions – and answers – to a series of questions we asked to help the Strategy Development Taskforce do it work. What happened? What’s happening next? What’s already happened? Read the outline of a new strategy 2013-2022 discussed by the Board at the end of … Continue reading
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
Rosalynn Murithi Program Management Officer Biotech, is a proud mother of a baby girl Eden, 3.5 kgs, born on 4th April. Please join us in congratulating Rosa and family. Biotech team Continue reading
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Listen In! Continue reading
Information services staff are often asked by staff about the e-resources they can access online. Here’s a summary: For staff on the Nairobi and Addis campuses: We subscribe to several hundred journals – directly or through the CGIAR Consortium. These are listed at http://infoilri.wordpress.com/ilri-journals-list/ Each title links o the journal home page where you can … Continue reading
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Board members with staff Listen In! Continue reading