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 notified that Dr. Chris Jones’ extension number is changed to 2352. Aster Mehret | Forage Diversity | Continue reading
Tomorrow the 23rd of July ILRI Addis Engineering and Facility Unit has planned to undertake the following activities intended to upgrade and enhance the power supply & distribution: Surge arrest connection on various areas of the campus to prevent or minimize damage as a result of lightning which is inevitable during the winter season. The installation will … Continue reading
The Legal unit has updated all ILRI research contract templates, please find below a full list of all the research templates available. In particular the new CRA (collaborative research agreement) template find it here http://hdl.handle.net/10568/76183 is now updated with the new CGIAR system organization changes and the following:- under ‘IP management for global access’ in … Continue reading
Deborah Wyburn Tel: +251 116 17 2481 | Skype: debwyburn | Email: d.wyburn@cgiar.org Continue reading
We wish to extend an invitation to a seminar presentation on “ICRISAT in Ethiopia: Working with partners for prosperous and resilient dryland systems” this week on Thursday, 21st July. Please take time to come and support our colleague Tilahun Amede (ICRISAT). Please circulate the invitation to your partners. Boni (ILRI DG Representative) Continue reading
As you are hopefully aware, CGIAR recently underwent some major governance changes (see: http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance) We no longer have a CGIAR consortium, we have a ‘system organization’ with various governance, management and advisory bodies. Among other things, this means we need to update our email signatures! Please help us by doing this as soon as you … Continue reading
The Program Management Framework Project was initiated to address challenges and increase efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery through the implementation of consistent management processes at ILRI. We partnered with Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) in order to design a Framework for program and project management and to have some initial support with the implementation of … Continue reading
Please kindly note that we would like to announce due to the opening of the new GYM, we open the nomination for twenty-five invited members for zebu club. Nominations will be reviewed on a first-come first-serve basis. If the sub-committee determines that the nomination meets the criteria, it will accept the membership until the available … Continue reading
The Ethiopia finance unit has made re-organization with the aim of attaining more efficiency and supporting the research and the organizations hosted in the campus the best it could. The structure is mainly focused on service orientation and is expected to reduce the cycle time and quality of the services delivered by the unit. To … Continue reading
ILRI management realizes the integral part that staff play in the support and furtherance of the science and as such, it became apparent the need for ILRI to adopt a cohesive, integrated and modern approach to Compensation and Benefits to enhance the attraction and retention of a motivated, high caliber workforce, making ILRI a premier … Continue reading