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Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism
The increasing frequency and severity of drought and other climate shocks in the developing world’s great drylands threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of poor food producers, driving many...
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Africa’s first ‘Islamic-compliant’ livestock insurance pays 100 herders in...
A boy and a woman struggle with the dusty wind looking for water in Wajir, Kenya (photo on Flickr by Jervis Sundays, Kenya Red Cross Society). Today, for the first time in Africa, an insurance policy...
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Assessing societal changes from changing dairy value chains in Sahelian...
Arid drylands landscape near Niassante, Senegal (photo: ILRI/Jo Cadilhon). Two weeks ago, I travelled with partners from the Platform on Pastoralism and Drylands of the French Research Centre for...
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Accessing finance for livestock and dairy value chains in developing...
(Left to right): Heiner Böhme (Namibia Meat Corporation), Edgar Twine (ILRI Tanzania), Signe Nelgen and Jo Cadilhon (both from ILRI Nairobi), presenters on innovative financial products and services...
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Case study on the first insurance for Africa’s camels, cows, sheep and goats
Image background by Mark Rothko, No 301, 1959 (via Daily Rothko Tumblr Blog). ‘On a hot morning in Nairobi in 2014, Andrew Mude, Team Leader for the Index-Based Livestock Insurance program (IBLI...
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IGAD’s Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and Great Lakes region member states sign...
Horn of Africa from Space (via Planet Earth.ca). The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an eight-country trade bloc in Africa including governments from the Horn of Africa, the Nile...
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UN adopts resolution promoting sustainable pastoralism and rangelands
Ethiopia’s Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Shiferaw Teklemariam, speaks at UNEA-2 (photo credit: ILRI/Dorine Odongo). Written by Dorine Odongo, communications and knowledge...
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Kenyan economist Andrew Mude wins the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field...
Andrew Mude, a principal research scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya, was yesterday named the 5th recipient of a prestigious award for his work in...
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Kenya’s wildlife populations are in ‘widespread’ and ‘catastrophic’...
Cattle and Maasai herders and zebra share grazing land in Kenya (Photo credit: Rob Pringle/Harvard University). Here’s a wake up call for all those who care about Kenya’s rich heritage of wild...
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Kenyan accepts 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application...
Andrew Mude, speaking at an event announcing his award held at ILRI in Nairobi, Kenya, 30 Aug 2016 (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Researcher Andrew Mude and colleagues are also receiving today...
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A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Sustainable Livestock Systems
BETTER SCIENCE, BETTER LIVES The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), headquartered in Africa and working in poor countries worldwide to provide better lives through livestock, held its...
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On selling insurance (not lottery tickets) to Africa’s struggling...
Andrew Mude, a Kenyan economist at ILRI who leads a multi-centre Index-Based Livestock Insurance project (IBLI) in the Horn of Africa, is this year’s Norman Borlaug Field Award winner (photo credit:...
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Record payouts being made by Kenya Government and insurers to protect herders...
From left to right: Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Andrew Tuimur, principal secretary in Kenya’s State Department of Livestock; and Willy Bett,...
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CGIAR livestock support is enhancing community resilience in the face of...
A livestock carcass in northern Kenya, which has suffered prolonged drought (photo via Flickr by CIAT/Neil Palmer). Widespread drought conditions in the Horn of Africa have intensified since the...
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Research to help secure rangelands for users presented at World Bank Land and...
Pastoralists in Tanzania engaging in participatory mapping of rangeland resources (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flintan). Managing interactions between environmental change and livestock systems through...
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Brachiaria grass can help Kenya’s dryland food producers improve their soils...
BecA-ILRI Hub scientist Sita Ghimire describes the advantages of Brachiaria grass to Claes Kjellström, senior policy specialist at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), in...
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Largest-ever micro-insurance payout made to Ethiopian pastoralists
More than 2,250 pastoralists received insurance payouts following the extremely poor rains this year in southern Ethiopia. More than 2,250 pastoralists received insurance payouts following the...
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Award-winning paper establishes links between women’s empowerment and crop...
On 5 Dec 2017 Alessandra Galiè (centre) received the Elsevier Atlas award for publishing a research paper with outstanding potential for impacting people’s lives. She stands here with Elsevier...
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ILRI’s Kapiti livestock research station—and Kenyan and global public...
Over the past several weeks, illegal attempts to grab land have escalated at Kapiti Plains Estate (now known as Kapiti research station), located about 60 km southeast of Nairobi along Mombasa Road, in...
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Towards a sustainable, responsible and efficient livestock sector—Jimmy Smith...
Kick-off event at Berlin’s tenth annual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Jan 2018 (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). This year’s GFFA in Berlin addressed Shaping the Future of...
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