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
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Nationally recruited staff (NRS) appointment–Nairobi Peter Mativo joined ILRI’s Corporate Services directorate, Finance department as finance manager in June 2017 attached to Biosciences and CRP’s. He was formerly with Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation where he served as Finance & Operations Manager. Prior to that, he worked for CARE as Finance & Grants Coordinator. Through … Continue reading
Making the Asian dairy sector more sustainable Call for entries Dairy Asia is pleased to issue a call for entries for the Dairy Asia Sustainability Award. The award intents to recognize success stories of practice change from Asia and the Pacific region that make dairy systems more sustainable, both on- and off- farm. The Dairy … Continue reading
In August I presented a keynote address at the 25th anniversary conference of the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP). Continue reading
On Saturday 2 September 2017 between 9:30 a.m. & 4:00 p.m., Engineering and Facilities unit is planning to carry out maintenance work on Backup Generator set, in event of main power supply failure residential areas and critical loads such as lab and servers will be supplied via secondary Backup Generator set except all office buildings … Continue reading
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On Wednesday August 2nd between 5:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., Engineering and Facilities unit is planning to carry out an urgent maintenance work on Backup Generator set, in event of main power supply failure residential areas and critical loads such as lab and servers will be supplied via secondary Backup Generator set except all office … Continue reading
On 6-8 July, I attended a conference at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) on Impacts of International Agricultural Research: Rigorous Evidence for Policy organized jointly by the CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). This is a modified version of my address. Continue reading