Monthly Archives: July 2015

Originally posted on Safe Food, Fair Food:
During our writeshop in November 2012, some of the outputs we finalized were a poster (see below) and a factsheet for a wider dissemination of our project goals and achievements. We took advantage…

Originally posted on Safe Food, Fair Food:
We are pleased to announce that the book, Food Safety and Informal Markets: Animal Products in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Kristina Roesel and Delia Grace of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Stephanie Brittain Launched today by Agriculture for Impact, a new Sustainable Intensification database aims to explain the ecological, socio-economic and genetic approaches that together contribute to the Sustainable Intensification…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Investing in smallholder farmers who own livestock in rural Africa, such as these women in Tanzania, is a catalyst for economic growth (photo credit: ILRI/Deo Gratias Shayo). Last October (2013), the World Bank reported on…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Village women and livestock in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘A key function of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is to estimate food security across the world. These estimates are published each year as…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Theories of change have become part of the landscape of CGIAR research programs – also the program on Livestock and Fish. Livestock and Fish is a complex program characterized by…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
In 2015, the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program will be evaluated by a team commissioned by the Independent Evaluation Arrangement (IEA) office of the CGIAR. You can learn more…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Aflatoxins are highly toxic fungal by-products produced by certain strains of Aspergillus fungi in more than 40 susceptible crops including maize and groundnuts. Aflatoxins can be separated into aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2. When ingested,…

Originally posted on DESERTIFICATION:
Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/10/less-hunger-but-not-good-enough.html Less Hunger, But Not Good Enough By José Graziano da Silva, Kanayo Nwanze, and Ertharin Cousin Every year, we take a snapshot of world progress in the fight against chronic hunger. This…

Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
I am back from Cuba and have a long list of posts in my mind, both from the conference I attended and from talking to Cubans on the street. Coming soon. However, these…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Livestock production in California (image via Flickr/US Department of Agriculture). There’s been an interesting debate published in the Wall Street Journal this week on whether feedlot beef is bad for the environment. Robert Martin, director of the…

Terrain Map of Trinidad In my previous post, GIS a map to food security, I identified eight benefits of GIS technology. Additionally, I introduced you to the Land Information System of Trinidad and Tobago (LISTT) Parcel Viewer, a program under the Land Management Division…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
The Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program director, Tom Randolph, yesterday, 8 October 2012, attended the day-long 45th anniversary celebration in Nairobi for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Jimmy Smith signs the agreement; Livestock and Fish director Tom Randolph look on Recently, ILRI director general Jimmy Smith signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement between the Swedish University of Agricultural…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Goats at a market in Somaliland (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). By Andrew Wangili A new research brief by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) shows that a livestock marketing information system (LMIS) has improved access to…

Originally posted on THE GFAR BLOG:
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) co-organized from 15-17 June, 2015 in Zaragoza, Spain the conference “Agricultural Higher Education in the 21st Century” in which Young Professionals…

Originally posted on Small Scaled Farmers and the pastoralists are the backbones of animal agriculture. They play a pivotal role not only in producing quality food item but also conserving the genetic resources as well as nature for the next generations. Contrast to the factory farming small scaled farming and pastoralism do not use (up to their level best) pesticides and chemical fertilizers etc. They do not harm the nature by the blind use of inputs like energy and water. They are the custodians of the genes and nature.:
The food security challenge and health complications, strongly realize the importance of those plants (trees, shrubs, bushes etc) which…