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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Course announcements and Fellowship availability
ICRA training programmes: The courses are the following ones:- 1. Design & Management of Interactive Learning in Rural Innovation – 5 – 23 November 2012 (DM-IAL2012),Wageningen, The Netherlands. This course is for professionals from research, extension, farmer organizations and private sector, working in rural innovation networks, who are involved in designing, facilitating and coaching on-the-job … Continue reading
Winrock International Opportunity
Title: Program Director, Agriculture Client: Winrock International (http://www.winrock.org) Location: TBD – Little Rock, AR or Arlington, VA Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Program emphasis includes education and children and youth leadership, … Continue reading
Meeting held to discuss Osun beef chain development project
On 30 January 2012, the ILRI Ibadan office hosted Osun State delegates at a meeting on “Innovative beef chain development: an abattoir-based business hub model”. Pictured below are the workshop participants. Contributed by Kemi Olaobaju January 2012 Continue reading
Training on Gender Mainstreaming for AGP coordinators and focal Persons
Ephrem Tessema, from IPMS project jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture women’s affairs directorate, conducted a four day training (Nov.16-18) on gender mainstreaming to sixty Agricultural Growth Program (AGP) coordinators and focal persons in Adama. The gender training is part of a 10 day training that is organized by the AGP of the Ministry of … 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
Agriculture / Event / ILRI / IPMS
IPMS steering committee meeting
IPMS project held it’s biannual steering committee meeting in the ILRI DG conference room on October 13th, 2011. Updates of the past six month activities in areas of knowledge management, capacity development, and commodity development were put forward. Discussion on efforts being made by the project and its partners to mainstream the IPMS activities into … Continue reading
BecA Hub – New Appointment
Leah Ndungu has been appointed Project Coordinator- BecA effective 01 July 2011. She will be responsible for managing and coordinating a new collaborative project between Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, and the Biosciences eastern and central Africa – International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub. Leah holds a PhD in Veterinary Science with … Continue reading
Welcoming Hailemichael Taye to ILRI
Hailemichael has joined the ‘Innovation in Livestock Systems (MK01) team as a Research Technician and will be based in Addis Ababa. He will be working in various research projects in which the team is involved. Hailemichael holds an Advanced MA degree in Development Evaluation and Management from the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University … Continue reading
Welcoming Birgit Boogaard to ILRI
Please join us in welcoming Birgit Boogaard to ILRI! Birgit is joining the “Small ruminant value chains to reduce poverty and increase food security in India and Mozambique (imGoats)” project as a Post Doctoral Fellow effective 15 June 2011. Birgit will be based in Vilanculos, Mozambique. She will lead imGoats research activities in Mozambique in … Continue reading
Birke Enyew joins Capacity Strengthening (CaSt-Addis)
Birke Enyew Joins the Capacity Strengthening Unit of ILRI-Addis as a Program Assistant on June 1, 2011. Birke has a BA degree in Sociology and Social Administration from Addis Ababa University and a Diploma in Secretarial Science and Office Management from Junior College of Commerce. We hope many of you already know Birke, who has … Continue reading
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