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 be aware that due to emergency toilet line maintenance work at Washera building all Men’s and Women’s Toilet will be closed for 15 days as of today March 08,2019 up to March 23, 2019. Accordingly please use Hammar building toilets till the maintenance work is finalized. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. … Continue reading
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Dear Colleagues, Animal and Human Health March 8: ILRI and BecA-ILRI Hub with support from P & OD will host a conference on Women in Data Science at ILRI. WiDS ILRI will coincide with the annual Global Women in Data Science conference (www.widsconference.com), which will be held at Stanford University on 4th March and 150+ … Continue reading
Dear Colleagues ILRI will be celebrating the International Women’s Day (IWD) that will be marked globally on March 8th. Among the key activities that will be taking place include a talk by the ILRI Gender Lead Nicoline de Haan on the differences between Gender in research and gender in the workplace.In addition a conference dubbed … Continue reading
Dear All, This is to inform you that due to many toilet blockage problem in most of office’s toilets, we have done sewage manhole cleaning on February 21, 2019. This has caused a foul sewer smell in campus specially in wahsera building and zebu areas. The smell is expected for the next two days as … Continue reading
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A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff, compiled by David Aronson. Kenya’s agriculture ministry is pushing for a Sh6 billion budget to eradicate Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), a deadly animal viral disease ravaging 23 arid and semi-arid … Continue reading
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The first month of 2019 is over already. The Institute Management Committee (IMC) held its first meeting of the year in Addis Ababa on 23-24 January which then allowed us to attend the Addis Staff Party on the afternoon of 24 January. Continue reading
Dear Colleagues, Please be informed that Engineering staff shall be holding their monthly meeting Tomorrow Tuesday, January 29, 2019 from 10.30am to 12.30pm. We shall not be available to handle maintenance jobs during that time. Send any critical maintenance requirements for our attention early enough for our action. For movement requests, we kindly urge staff … Continue reading