Clik here to view.
The common practice of pig-rearing in northeast India would profit from...
A woman pig farmer in northeastern India. Pig-rearing there can benefit from better coordinated breeding and greater involvement of women in the sub-sector. (Photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) Livestock...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joint efforts needed to help Nepalese livestock owners combat climate change
Slide from ILRI presentation made at Nepal livestock and climate change workshop in October 2010: 'Adapting livestock systems to climate change in South Asia,' by Mario Herrero, Philip Thornton and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Livestock sector in India’s Jharkhand could move millions out of poverty
A woman in Jharkhand, in eastern India, tends her goats (photo credit: BAIF). A new report from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) highlights the potential for the livestock sector...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Research group helps pig business become bigger business in northeastern India
Pig kept in Nagaland, in northeastern India, where pig production and consumption by poor tribal peoples is commonplace (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). Small-scale pig production is the basis of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New training manuals for improving small-scale pig production: With lessons...
Children of a smallholder pig-farming household in Mon District, Nagaland, in the far northeastern corner of (tribal) India, which is participating in an ILRI project to help the rural poor enhance...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Feed the Future’: Connecting ALL the (agricultural research) dots in the...
Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands: Project Design Workshop—Project Outline and concepts Watch...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Better support for, and integration of, mixed crop and animal farming is key...
A crop and livestock farmer in Uttarakhand, India. Integrated crop and livestock farming systems can play a significant role in improving global food security (photo credit: ILRI/Susan Macmillan)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Experts comment on new drylands research program for eastern and southern Africa
Watch this brief ILRI video (run-time under 7 minutes) of quick comments made by six participants following a recent inception workshop hosted by ILRI to plan work in eastern and southern Africa by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Livestock Research for Africa’s Food Security’: Join us at our side event at...
Next week, staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and many other CGIAR centres and research programs are attending the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW6), which is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Not by food alone’: Livestock research should be used to make a bigger...
Livestock matter to the livelihoods and ambitions of most people living in Africa and other developing regions of the world (image credit: ILRI/Rob O’Meara). Note: This post was developed by ILRI...
View Article
