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
Please join us in welcoming new staff at Biotech, that joined in May 2011 … Evelyn Katingi Evelyn will devote 50% of her time to Biotech between May and December 2011 as the information and communication officer. Her main role is to facilitate the Theme web communications and working together with ILRI Public Awareness, draft … Continue reading
Anne Liljander, Post Doc CBPP, BT01 team joined 1st April 2011. Anne, a Swedish national, holds a Phd in Infectious Diseases from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden awarded in 2010. Her PhD project was on Malaria: Multiclonal infections and protective immunity. Anne is part of the GTZ funded CBPP project where she will be rrequired to ensure … Continue reading
Sabine joined ILRI on 6th April 2011 as a postdoctoral fellow with IWMI and ILRI in the context of the ILRI-led CPWF Volta basin project on integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agro-ecosystems. Sabine will be based at IWMI office in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, reporting to Augustine Ayantunde (ILRI) and Charlotte de Fraiture (IWMI). Her … Continue reading