Towards clearer One Health policies in eastern Africa: Interview with HEAL...
In November 2020, Zuleka Ismail joined the One Health for Humans, Environment, Animals and Livelihoods (HEAL) Project as interim regional manager. Zuleka brings more than seven years of experience in...
View ArticleInternational Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists: A Mongolian proposal to...
Written by Cynthia Mugo (ILRI) and Lavinia Scudiero (GASL). Milking yaks in the highlands of China (photo credit: Marc Foggin/iyrp.info). In Aug 2019, the Mongolian Government began to petition the...
View ArticleInternational Livestock Research Institute becomes Global Landscapes Forum...
(BONN, 12 October 2020) – Over half a billion people in developing countries depend to some extent on farm animals for their livelihoods. Animal-sourced food also plays an important role in nutrition,...
View ArticleWhen numbers lie
Land surface temperature data from ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station’s validation towers are significantly warmer than expected, prompting concern. Vast disparities in the number of instruments used to...
View ArticleILRI launches new drought index insurance for resilience in the Sahel and...
Camels carrying salt harvested in Afar, Ethiopia. A new drought index-insurance for resilience project is focusing on pastoral systems in the Sahel and Horn of Africa (photo credit:ILRI/ Fiona...
View ArticleNew project to improve agricultural productivity in Zimbabwe
Cattle at a livestock market in Ukambani, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). A new European Union-funded ‘Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe’ (LIPS-Zim) project is working to increase...
View ArticleA new ‘How-To-Do’ note provides guidance on addressing land-use conflicts in...
Conflicts are relatively common in pastoral and agropastoral areas, and how they are perceived and handled has a strong influence on their outcomes. Many underlying conflicts are latent – unseen to an...
View ArticleA new ‘How-to-Do Note’ provides guidance on designing and implementing...
Women’s participation in community governance and local development is often limited by patriarchal discourses, biases and norms that define gender roles. Given pastoralist women’s role as resource...
View ArticleFocus on environmental health: The role of rangelands in an integrated One...
As the we commemorate the World Environment Day, 5 -June-2020, the criticality of the One Health approach, integrating human, animal and environmental health has continued to come to the fore. Yet,...
View ArticleLivestock route mapping for improved health of humans, animals and the...
Pastoralism is an effective and productive livelihood system that makes the best use of variably distributed natural resources in often dry rangeland areas where it has a particularly strong...
View Article‘Invisible livestock’– On the central roles of working horses, donkeys and...
By Klara Saville (Brooke), Carine Bambara, Anna Marry (both Brooke), Brian Perry (University of Edinburgh and University of Oxford). A Honduran maize and bean farmer and his horse (photo credit:...
View ArticleNew York Global Landscapes Forum ‘Restore the Earth’ 2019
This blog was initially published on the International Land Coalition website by Fiona Flintan. The Rangelands Initiative of the International Land Coalition (ILC) is drawing attention to rangelands...
View ArticleIndex-based livestock insurance: Reflecting on success
One of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) major success stories in recent years has been the development of an index-based livestock insurance program (IBLI), which protects...
View ArticleInternational Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative launches website
A screenshot of the International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative website (photo credit: ILRI/Sarah Kasyoka). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is pleased to announce the...
View ArticleMomentum builds at UNEA for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) worked with a host of private and public organizations advocating for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists at the fourth biennial...
View ArticleJoint village land use planning secures over 95,000 hectares of grazing lands...
Sustainable livestock systems The Tanzania Agricultural and Livestock Policy of 1997 identifies overstocking and overgrazing, as well as a lack of innovative options for meeting the needs of mobile...
View ArticleAspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments...
For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great agricultural-research-for-development storytellers. Their stories were introduced recently at an Aspen New...
View ArticleWhen ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’
This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pastoral Maasai communities, with images of a Maasai kraal homestead (upper left) and communal herding...
View ArticleIntroducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs,...
As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths due to an outbreak of Rift Valley fever has risen to 26 in the past month. The Kenya Ministry of Health has provided...
View ArticleKenyan President Kenyatta headlines national conference at ILRI Nairobi on...
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the 400 guests at the national conference of the Feed the Future Accelerated Value Chain Development program at ILRI on 27 Apr 2018. US Ambassador to Kenya...
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