Category Archives: Poverty, Hunger, Malnutrition

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Cattle grazing in Borena, Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). ‘It is fair to assume many private investors in Africa did not grow up milking a cow or shepherding cattle through the Sahara Desert. ‘But,…

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? Photo credit: Food Tank Tata Somba, Benin – September 6, 2012: Local woman with a small child passing through the green field. – http://foodtank.com/assets/images/head/iStock_76694969_MEDIUM_opt_opt.jpg New Report Urges African Governments to Increase Sustainable Agricultural Practices by…

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? Photo credit: SciDevNet – Copyright: Panos ? Fighting low wheat production in Africa If scientists, farmers and policy makers could consistently work together, Africa will achieve self-sufficiency in wheat production in the very near future. That was…

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Nelson Chikowa, Malawi potato and groundnut farmer (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘. . . The United Nations projects that the global population will increase from 7.3 billion in 2015 to 9.7 billion in 2050. This growth…

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Image credit: Humidtropics. A new book from CGIAR offers lessons for researchers working with smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia to further adoption of integrated agricultural systems innovations. ‘ Published by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)…

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Lucy Wangeci Kuria of Kenya with her cow and her phone (via Flickr/Jeff Haskins). A CABI-led consortium has gained GSMA funding to help three million people access nutrition information using mobile technology. More than three…

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Tanzanian woman on her cell phone (photo credit: CCAFS/Cecilia Schubert). A new open-access Nutrition Knowledge Bank has been created as part of a GSMA mNutrition initiative to help tackle malnutrition in Africa and Asia. This…

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? Photo credit: FAO A market in Boulder, Colorado, USA. People need affordable food, but prices must provide decent livelihoods for small-scale family farmers Declining prices could thwart international efforts to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty…

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? Photo credit: FAO Members of an Indian farmers group measure local groundwater levels at an observation well. FAO Director-General urges more support to help small farmers adapt to a changing climate Failure to act now…

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? Photo credit: FAO Empowering small-scale farmers and providing them better access to information, markets and technologies is key to ensuring future food security. Photo: FAO Business-as-usual not an option with future global food security in…

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Many may not realise that agribusiness and tourism are two of the top five emerging growth industries to 2030. According to a recent report from Deloitte Access Economics, our sectors are two of the…

Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
Please come to the sources of the natural health. I assure you camels’ milk really works. Look the use of antibiotics at such a high level in dairy sector and other…

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Making technologies available to smallholder mixed crop–livestock farmers to grow fodder can increase milk yields and quality in an environmentally sustainable manner. Hyderabad, India. (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) In 2015–2016, the International Livestock Research Institute…

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Women peeling cassava roots in a cassava processing centre (photo credit: IITA). ‘The US government, yesterday, said it has invested $75 million (about N2.3 billion) in [Nigeria’s]  agricultural sector, just as it launched agribusiness partnerships…

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? Photo credit: UN NEWS CENTRE Rural development and youth employment are strongly connected to migration. Photo: FAO/Riccardo Gangale Global Goals on poverty and hunger require $265 billion annually – UN conference told The world must…

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John Oboum’s climate-smart small-scale farm site in Western Kenya (photo credit: CCAFS / Cecilia Schubert). ‘One of the most urgent challenges we face in the next several decades is feeding a growing world population without…

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‘For just the fourth time in its 72-year history, the United Nations General Assembly has focused on a health issue: the rise of “superbugs” and antibiotic-resistant infections. These pose a “fundamental threat” to society, said…

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As one of the panelists, I attended a discussion on “Strengthening Social Science and Policy Research” hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)’s South Asia Office and the International Rice Research Institute…

Originally posted on Kalu Samuel's Blog:
Do you love rabbits? Do you know rabbit meat tastes so good and are very healthy too? Do you know you can make good money in 2017, raising rabbits? To find answers to…

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Livestock in India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). One of the fastest growing subsectors in agriculture–livestock–can significantly contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if the opportunities it offers, especially for people in developing countries,…

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ILRI’s Delia Grace (left) and Shirley Tarawali (right), made two of the three presentations at the second of a four-part series of meetings-cum-webinars on enhancing nutrition through market-led livestock development in developing countries. This series…

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? A High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) is the science-policy interface of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is, at the global level, the foremost inclusive and…

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Visit this Pinterest page maintained by ILRI for 102 advocacy communications: Livestock—Opinions. This year, with a pilot project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation starting in Sep 2016, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)…

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Nathanael Johnson, a talented food writer at Grist, a non-profit environmental news and commentary site based in Seattle, has published a thoughtful special series of eight articles around a question seldom looked at squarely in…

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Farmer from southern Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ region holding one of her household chickens (photo credit: ILRI Camille Hanotte). Written by Calestous Juma, Harvard University. Africa, which imports nearly 83% of the food it…

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Farmland in Mali (photo by World Bank). ‘. . . [A]ccording to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, . . . [Africa] will . . . need to…

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? ? Boost for Africa’s smallholder farmers’ access to sustainable agricultural technologies as USAID announces $ 50 million Africa RISING Phase 2 by JONATHAN ODHONG The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Food Security in…

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? Photo credit: CIAT An ecosystems approach to the SDGs in Africa: why we need to listen to farmers by Juliet Braslow To address all the SDG’s, we’re going to need to think like farmers. That…

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? Photo credit: CIAT Blog Study finds 40% more milk and tens of millions of dollars in revenue possible for African farmers adopting new drought-resistant pasture grass by Georgina Smith New varieties of high-quality, drought-resistant forage…

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Figure 1. Gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) across regions, in purchasing power parity (UNESCO Institute for Statistics). ‘. . . In 2012, the share of the world’s articles with at least one African author was…

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Scanning electromicrograph if the interaction of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria (coloured blue) with a human white cell. The bacteria shown is strain MRSA252, a leading cause of hospital-associated infections in the US and UK (image credit: National…

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ILRI veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert Delia Grace (photo via Flickr ©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto). This opinion piece, written by ILRI scientist and program leader Delia Grace, was originally published by Devex on 16 Dec 2016.…

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? Photo credit: Balcony Garden Web Vegetables that are productive, for example, beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. are the most suitable for urban gardeners. Other vegetables like spinach, lettuce, carrots take less space and productive too, this…