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Kenya’s Robin Mbae on livestock and climate change at Berlin’s Global Forum...
Robin Mbae, deputy director of livestock production at the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, presenting at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (photo credit: ILRI/Susan...
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Kenyan 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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Introducing 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...
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When ‘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...
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Aspen 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...
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Joint 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...
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Momentum 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...
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International 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 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 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...
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‘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:...
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Livestock 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 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 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 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...
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New 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...
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ILRI 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 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 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,...
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International 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...
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