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Agriculture / Livelihoods / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Markets / Value Chains Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor Posted on 31 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications 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 Drought / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / Pastoralism Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism Posted on 31 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications 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. Latest Entries A4NH / AHH / Buffalo / Cattle / Consumption / Dairying / East Africa / Food Safety / Food Security / Human Health / ILRI / India / Kenya / Livelihoods / Markets / Nutrition / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / South Asia / Tanzania / Trade / Value Chains How viable are schemes to give poor people making and selling ‘informal’ milk greater market access? Posted on 12 Oct 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment A new report from ILRI and IIED reviews the effectiveness of training and certification schemes designed to give small-scale ‘informal’ sellers of ‘raw’ and/or boiled or informally pasteurized milk and (in India) milk sweets greater market access in East Africa and South Asia. The report reviews such schemes in Kenya and Tanzania and in the state of Assam, in northwestern India. In all three countries, the informal sector dominates dairy marketing and trade and informal milk production and trade contribute significantly to the employment, livelihoods and nutrition of many millions of poor people. Continue reading → Africa / Animal Breeding / Biodiversity / Breeds / Cattle / Genetics / ILRI / Indigenous Breeds / Interview / LiveGene / LIVESTOCKCRP / News clipping / Pro-Poor Livestock / Resilience / Science paper ‘Genomic time travel’ for better African cattle—New paper describes a ‘rich mosaic of traits’ and an ‘evolutionary jolt’ Posted on 3 Oct 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment ‘Scientists in Nairobi have discovered a new set of genetic markers in African cattle that signal beneficial characteristics, with a view to harnessing them for future generations.’—Nature Genetics Continue reading → Biodiversity / East Africa / Environment / ILRI / Kenya / News clipping / Rangelands / Resilience / SLS / Wildlife ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station to serve as conservancy and critical wildlife corridor for Nairobi National Park Posted on 1 Oct 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment ILRI and Swara Plains Conservancy declare their 32,000 and 15,000 acres of rangeland, respectively, in Kenya for wildlife conservation. Continue reading → Cattle / Climate Change / Environment / GHG emissions / Interview / News clipping Belching bovines and global warming: Overstated claims about methane emitted by cows and climate change Posted on 15 Sep 2020 by Tim Offei-Addo • Leave a comment A recent interview by Caroline Stocks, a UK journalist who writes about food, agriculture and the environment, of air quality expert Frank Mitloehner, a professor of animal science at the University of California at Davis, calls into question how responsible cows are for climate change. Continue reading → Advocacy / Africa / Agri-Health / AHH / Animal Products / Asia / China / Consumption / COVID19 / Food Safety / Human Health / ILRI / Markets / News clipping / OneHealth / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Uganda / Zoonotic Diseases More on why outright banning of ‘wet markets’ (while ‘giving virologists the heebie-jeebies’) won’t work Posted on 14 Sep 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment Many virologists do not want to see a blanket ban on wet markets. Rather, they prefer a more nuanced approach and more narrow regulation to control their most dangerous aspects. To understand why, it helps to unpick what wet markets are, and their role in the feeding of billions of people. Continue reading → Africa / Award / Cattle / Disease Control / ECF / Europe / ILRI / Kenya / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research / Staff / UK / Vaccines Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever Posted on 11 Sep 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment RCVS Knowledge, the charity partner of the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has awarded its inaugural Plowright Prize to Professor William Ivan Morrison of the University of Edinburgh for his research combating the cattle disease East Coast fever. Ivan Morrison started his career at ILRAD, a predecessor of ILRI, where he worked from 1975 to 1990, leading, and building up, ILRAD’s research program on East Coast fever for many of those years. Continue reading → Agri-Health / AHH / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Cattle / Disease Control / East Africa / Epidemiology / ILRI / Kenya / LiveGene / Project / Science paper The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository Posted on 10 Sep 2020 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment...