Author Archives: Dr. Bukar USMAN, mni

Originally posted on Rural Sociology Wageningen University:
Welcome to Can Tho University For the month of August the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute (MDI) is hosting a summer school case study on Agricultural transformation in developing countries under contexts of…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
By Alice Marks An agroecosystem. Credit: S. Carrière, IRD It is no secret that natural resources such as water, nutrients, land and also biodiversity, are increasingly threatened by the…

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 GFAiR 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 Pastoralists, Nomads, Small and Medium Scaled Family Farmers are the Custodian of Native genetic resources and Sustainable Farming Systems:
The food security challenge and health complications, strongly realize the importance of those plants (trees, shrubs, bushes etc) which can add…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
A local pork vendor at the wet market sells her meat to two local women, Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). ? The 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report launched last week (18 March…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
A herd of cattle in Botswana. A new report by ILRI identifies key evidence gaps in our knowledge of antimicrobial resistance in the livestock and fisheries sub-sectors in the developing world (photo credit: ILRI). Antimicrobial resistance…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Elephants and livestock both need water on a regular basis  (photo of Kenya elephant on Flickr by Shawna Nelles). CNN reports that ‘As the Horn of Africa suffers its worst drought for 60 years, there…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Workers unload milk cans at a commercial dairy plant in Dimapur, Nagaland, India (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). A blog in the Guardian this week argues for the G20 agriculture ministers meeting this week to support ‘new investment…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Mohamed Béavogui, director of the west and central African division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has the following to say in the Guardian‘s Poverty Matters Blog. ‘Africa’s smallholder farmers not only have…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at ILRI, Tadelle Dessie, Yetnayet Mamo and Okeyo Mwai prepared an issue brief on the Domestic Animal Genetic Resources Information System (DAGRIS) … In developing countries, lack of…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at ILRI, Okeyo Mwai, livestock geneticist, reflects on ILRI’s research over the past decade on the animal genetic resources of the developing world and future directions. Watch the…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Minoan terracotta bull’s head, 14th-century BC (via Christie’s). Animal diseases cost cash-strapped African farmers about $300 billion a year in lost income and veterinary bills. Now scientists are proactively breeding livestock with defenses against these…

Originally posted on Food Governance :
Organized crime is a continuously evolving phenomenon.  The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000) defined  “organized criminal group” as a structured group of three or more persons, existing for a period of time…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
The following is an excerpted version of a blog post originally published on the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) website. Some of the foods that would most enhance nutrition in diets in the…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) last week (4 June) published its 2014 annual report, marking three full years of its first…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Livestock production is beset by many challenges. Animal diseases, in particular, can lead to reduced production of milk, meat and eggs. In some cases, animal disease infections may result in death, leading to loss of livelihoods…

Originally posted on LIVES-Ethiopia:
By Mamusha Lemma LIVES coaching and mentoring is helping avocado farmers (photo:ILRILIVES). Training is often criticized for not making a significant impact on improving performance. Many training managers are increasingly concerned about how to ensure the transfer…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
By Stephanie Brittain More than 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger and two billion suffer from nutrient deficiency. One in four children is stunted and one in two…