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
ILRI Kenya Stores Unit will carry out the 2017 Mid-Year Stock-take exercise from 29th – 30th June 2017. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended to. You are therefore kindly requested to submit your Warehouse Order requests through the OCS by mid-day, Friday 23rd June 2017. Normal operations will resume on Monday, 3rd … Continue reading
Dear Zebu Club Members, Please Kindly note that Zebu Club will organize summer program for your children whose age from 7-13. The program will be in a week days from 8:30am to 12 noon . The program will include Art works ( drawing and painting), tennis, basketball, squash, Zumba dance and Taekwondo. The first course … Continue reading
Dear Colleagues, I place huge value on our excellent staff and recognise the role that each one of you plays in achieving our vision and mission. From time to time we will undertake staff engagement surveys in order to provide every member of staff an opportunity to give their views about ILRI as a place … Continue reading
Dear Colleagues, I am leaving Ethiopia (to join CIP Bangladesh) end June. Therefore, I am selling my furniture and other items. Many of the items are gone! Here is a list of items to be sold with the remaining ones. Please take a look and if you like an item let me or my colleague Frezer … Continue reading
ILRI running team stood on the 3rd place on finishing the 2017 IFH Ring Road Relay Race. Coach Berhanu Abebe Continue reading
I made a flying visit (literally) to India over the Easter weekend in April. We have been in discussion for some time with the Government of Odisha (formerly Orissa) in eastern India about a new project to improve livestock feeing systems. Continue reading
ILRI running team who participated on the 2017 IFH Relay Races held on 4th June 2017 at Addis Ababa. Coach Berhanu Abebe Continue reading
The Ethiopian Government has introduced new regulation regarding visa authorization processing. Until 23 May 2017, the visa authorization process required applications to be submitted to Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MOFA) and upon approval to Immigration. The new directives involves each application going through security clearance, hence the new process will be as follows; Application is submitted … Continue reading
One hour reporting time before flight departure on Domestic flights. Based on customer feedback and in order to improve the customer waiting time at Terminal-1 and all our domestic airports, customers’ reporting time for flights will be changed to one hour before flight departure, instead of the current two hours, after 30 June 2017. Thus, … Continue reading
– Mitsubishi Pajero io 2006 – Petrol 2.0 l – mileage: 131.350 km – Automatic transmission – 4WD – A/C – 5 doors / 5 seats – Asking price: 7800 USD duty free – Contact number: +254 706397289 Victoria Carbonell, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI Continue reading