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Quality barley seeds and linkages with breweries unlock better incomes for Ethiopian farmers

Assefa Negash, a farmer and secretary of the Bekume Oyora Seeds Growers’ Cooperative has long faced difficulties in getting high-quality malt barley seeds. He cultivates the crop jointly with members of his cooperative group on a 3.3-hectare piece of land in Goba District of the Bale zone in...

  • Haimanot Seifu
ILRI Asia blog

Press release: Art exhibition showcases artist and farmer view of livestock development in Vietnam

Media contact: Communications Department, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, ngocvnfam@gmail.com Chi Nguyen, communications officer, ILRI, c.nguyen@cgiar.org , +84 (0)936 066 152 About 120 artworks and photos on livestock from the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum and the Livestock-led...

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Community-based breeding programs to celebrate successes in Ethiopia

Genetic improvement plays a vital role for the development of the livestock sector by means of increasing the productivity and sustainability of production. In 2009, a new genetic improvement approach—the Community Based Breeding Program (CBBP)—was implemented in Ethiopia by the International...

  • Beamlak Tesfaye, Aynalem Haile
AgHealth blog

ILRI researchers contribute to Scientific and Technical Review special issue on veterinary services

A special issue (Aug 2021) of the Scientific and Technical Review journal of the World Organisation for Animal Health ( OIE ) turns the spotlight on the operation of veterinary services in a world affected by various external factors such as climate change and emerging zoonotic diseases. The COVID-...

Africa RISING feed

No technician? No problem: Africa RISING releases 35 vernacular DIY videos on maintenance of maize shelling machines for use by farmers in Ghana

It is estimated that smallholder farmers in northern Ghana face postharvest losses ranging between 30–50% of the yields obtained in each cropping cycle. While northern Ghana has a great potential to be a breadbasket region for the country, with almost all crops grown in the country capable of being...

  • Africa RISING communications
Mazingira blog

A field visit to support climate-smart sustainable agro-pastoralism in East Africa

On 1 Sep 2021, scientists Sonja Leitner and Claudia Arndt from the Mazingira Centre of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted a group of international researchers on ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station in Machakos County. They were supported in the field by farm...

  • sonjaleitner
AVCD program blog

New drought-tolerant varieties rekindle hopes of food security in drought-prone Makueni County

A happy and hopeful Wilson Lati at his drought-tolerant Sorghum farm in Emali/Mulala Ward in Makueni Hoping against hope of decent harvests, farmers in the semi-arid and arid regions of eastern Kenya have always planted their traditional and favourite food crops – pigeonpea, green gram, sorghum,...

  • wanderaojanji
ILRI Asia blog

Vietnam joins UN call to transform global food systems as UN Food Systems Summit kicks off

Transforming the food systems can help Vietnam attain many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (photo credit: CGIAR/Chris deBode). President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed Vietnam’s commitment to transforming food systems in a transparent, responsible, and sustainable manner in the ‘new...

ILRI Asia blog

Art competition showcases public view of livestock development in Vietnam

A competition has been launched within the framework of the exhibition ‘ Livestock Development in Vietnam from Artists’ and Farmers’ Perspectives ,’ to raise public awareness on the important role of livestock in the livelihoods, health and culture of Vietnamese people. This event is especially...

ILRI Asia blog

ILRI and India’s Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying discuss priority areas for livestock sector development

(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, research and communications officer with ILRI in South Asia, with additional editing by Chi Nguyen and Paul Karaimu, communications officer, ILRI). In late August this year, Habibar Rahman , the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI )...

Africa RISING feed

Bridging the livestock feed gap through improved feed and forage options

Ethiopia is known for its large livestock population. The livestock sector in Ethiopia contributes about 46% of the country’s agricultural GDP. Livestock is primarily kept on smallholdings where it provides draught power for crop production, manure for soil fertility and fuel, and serves as a...

  • Haimanot Seifu
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Promoting women’s participation in collective livestock marketing: reflections from community conversations in Menz Mama, Ethiopia

Smallholder livestock keepers face many market challenges such as low prices, weak bargaining power, lack of market information, high transaction costs, lack of group actions, distance to markets, lack of marketing infrastructure, erratic and unorganized markets, and lack of market linkage...

  • Mamusha Lemma , Abiro Tigabie