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ILRI news better lives through livestock Search Menu Skip to content Subscriptions Photos Presentations Videos Menu Skip to content Home About Contacts ILRI clippings ILRI web Where we work Who we are Our research ILRI in CGIAR ILRI jobs Livestock ILRI blogs Africa RISING African chicken genetics AgHealth AVCD Kenya Botswana livestock CGIAR research program on livestock CGIAR research program on livestock and fish CGIAR systemwide livestock programme Crop-livestock Burundi and DRC Feeding innovation ILRI Asia ILRI BioSciences ILRI clippings Policies, institutions and livelihoods program ILRI news ILVAC – livestock vaccines Index-based livestock insurance IPMS Ethiopia LIVES-Ethiopia Livestock systems and the environment Maarifa – ILRI communications and KM Mazingira centre Safe food fair food Senegal dairy genetics Swaziland beef Vietnam pigs Zoonotic and emerging diseases Africa / ASF / Corporate Report / ILRI / LIVESTOCKCRP / Pigs / PIL / Spotlight / Uganda Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda Posted on 25 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment Driven by rising incomes, demand for animal-source foods in Africa and Asia is expected to increase up to 200% by 2030. Efficient crop and livestock production and natural resource use will drive employment, environmental, nutrition and income gains in a subsector likely to be dominated by smallholders. Africa / Article / Biodiversity / Cattle / Corporate Report / Genetics / ILRI / LiveGene / LIVESTOCKCRP / Species / Spotlight DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity Posted on 19 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment Important sources of meat, milk, traction and manure across Africa, cattle will become even more significant as demand for meat and milk is expected to more than double in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2030. Africa / Article / CCAFS / Climate Change / Corporate Report / ILRI / Kenya / Mazingira / SLS / Spotlight Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa Posted on 17 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment The implementation of effective mitigation strategies relies on accurate GHG emission data. But what if the underlying assumptions upon which these GHG emission estimates are based are inaccurate? Corporate Report / Crop-Livestock / ILRI / Intensification / LIVESTOCKCRP / SLS / Spotlight / Value Chains / Zimbabwe Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe Posted on 13 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment With growing food demand, the adoption of crop and livestock technologies and more efficient markets offer opportunities to enhance agricultural production, food security and resilience in rural Zimbabwe. Corporate Report / Dairying / Ethiopia / ILRI / ISP / Livelihoods / LIVES / LIVESTOCKCRP / Spotlight Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia Posted on 11 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment With incomes rapidly rising in Ethiopia, increasing milk yields and the sale of dairy products hold huge potential for the rural population whose livelihoods largely depend on livestock farming. Dairying / Gender / ILRI / India / ISP / LIVESTOCKCRP Dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in India Posted on 9 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural communities in India. Strengthening the efficiency of the Uttarakhand dairy market offers major opportunities to smallholders to expand production and sales of milk. A4NH / AHH / Corporate Report / ILRI / Pigs / Spotlight / Vietnam Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam Posted on 6 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods and nutritional security of Vietnamese people. More than 65% of rural households depend on pig farming for their livelihoods. AHH / Article / Corporate Report / ILRI / Kenya / PIL / Scaling / Spotlight / Tanzania / Vaccines Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes Posted on 4 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 1 Comment East Coast fever causes annual losses estimated at more than USD300 million and more than one million cattle deaths. Recent research-for-development approaches have accelerated the uptake of the ITM vaccine and demonstrated how its use is driving increased incomes for small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya and Tanzania. Africa / Article / BecA / Chickens / Corporate Report / ILRI / Kenya / Spotlight / Vaccines Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women Posted on 2 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment Poultry farming in Kenya is growing rapidly and remains largely dominated by women, who typically invest most of their earnings in feeding their families and educating their children. That is why controlling major poultry diseases is so important. Agriculture / Drought / Drylands / Pastoralism Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment 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. Agriculture / Climate Change / Environment / LIVESTOCKFISH Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment 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 Crop-Livestock / Crops / Intensification / Livestock Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment 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. Crop Residues / Crop-Livestock / Intensification / Livestock Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment Making smallholder production more competitive is a powerful tool to reduce poverty, raise nutrition levels and improve the livelihoods of rural people in many developing countries Latest Entries Agriculture / Animal Diseases / ASF / China / News clipping / Vaccines Can a vaccine save the world’s pigs from African swine fever? Posted on 23 Jan 2020 by David Aronson • Leave a comment A recent article by Katarina Zimmer in The Scientist examines how close we are to developing a vaccine to prevent African swine fever (ASF). It contains an extended discussion of the work of Lucilla Steinaa, an immunologist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Steinaa has been focusing on the specific types of the swine … Continue reading → Agriculture / Animal Products / Food Safety / Food Security / News clipping How a deadly outbreak unveiled the key to safer food Posted on 23 Jan 2020 by David Aronson • Leave a comment A recent article by Nancy Averett in Scientific African Magazine discusses how incidents of food poisoning in African cities may public awareness of food safety and kindle a citizens’ movement for safer foods. It focuses in part on the work of ILRI’s Delia Grace: Food safety researchers like Delia Grace of the International Livestock Research Institute, … Continue reading → AHH / Animal Health / ASF / Asia / Diagnostics / Disease Control / Epidemiology / Farming Systems / Food Safety / Food Security / Interview / LIVESTOCKCRP / Pigs / Policy / South Asia / Southeast Asia / Vaccines African swine fever ten years on: the lessons learned and the way forward Posted on 14 Jan 2020 by Ekta Patel • Leave a comment An interview with Dir...