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Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Tom Olaka, a community animal health worker in Karamajong, northern Uganda, was part of a vaccination campaign in remote areas of the Horn of Africa that drove the cattle plague rinderpest to extinction in 2010…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
This video, narrated by Livestock and Fish director Tom Randolph explains why meat, milk and fish are critical to the poor both as food and income and how the CGIAR…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
From 25-31 May, Nairobi was host to a ‘Week on Agricultural Innovation in Africa.’ Here ILRI’s Jo Cadilhon reflects on the International workshop on agricultural innovation systems in Africa held as part of the week.…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Neville Clarke, former chair of ILRI’s board of trustees and winner of the 2013 Special Service Award from the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (photo credit: Texas A&M AgriLife Research). Texas A &…

Originally posted on Feeding innovation:
Feed for cattle in vietnam The World Bank just released a new report that “assesses where the demand for feed [for ruminants in developing countries] is likely to change the most, and where investments in…

Originally posted on Feeding innovation:
From 23-24 May this year, a group of feed specialists from ILRI, CIAT, ICARDA and partner institutes got together in Addis Ababa to further elaborate the TechFit tool. This followed from a March 2013 meeting…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
A herd of sheep and goats in northern Kenya (photo on Flickr by gordontour). The dry areas of the developing world occupy over 40% of the earth’s surface and are home to some 2.5 billion…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
A herd of sheep and goats in northern Kenya (photo on Flickr by gordontour). The dry areas of the developing world occupy over 40% of the earth’s surface and are home to some 2.5 billion…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Pivot Agriculture in Libya (image courtesy FutureAtalas.com on Flickr) I’ve written previously about the problem of food waste and freeganism as a political movement to address that waste. Now, Pope Francis has entered the…

Originally posted on Mohammed Bello Tukur:
TRANSHUMANT PASTORALISTS AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA – PART II. by Mohammed Bello Tukur Esq. Ag. Secretary General of Confederation of Traditional Herder Organizations in Africa (CORET) – Nigeria. As indicated in the first part…

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
  By Klaus Wille – Jun 9, 2013 Africa is experiencing the strongest growth in new sovereign wealth funds in the world as the continent’s nations are amassing commodity revenues and foreign-exchange reserves, according to JPMorgan…

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
BY Dinfin Mulupi  Source:  http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/how-farm-shop-is-modernising-the-agro-dealership-experience/26942/ Social enterprise Farm Shop is building a franchise network of agro dealers located in rural, underserved areas of Kenya. Farm Shop says its retail shops are clean, modern, and professionally managed.…

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Experts say a ‘total economic valuation’ is needed to fully appreciate pastoralists’ contribution to national economies NAIROBI, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) – Pastoralism is often regarded as an antiquated practice ill-suited to the modern economy, yet…

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
  By Adam Green   – 16 May 2013   Agricultural imports are on the rise, as African economies struggle to meet growing demand A rising middle class, expanding population and stagnant local agricultural production are driving up Africa’s food…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Gum Arabic Sap on an Acacia Tree According to a report by the BBC, ongoing fighting in the Darfur region of South Sudan is being fuelled in part by demand for gum arabic. The…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
The state legislature in Connecticut passed a bill last week that it would make it the first state in the county to mandate labeling of products produced with genetically engineered ingredients. Surprisingly, the bill,…

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Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Food Security To Be At…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
As we wait to hear from global policy leaders meeting at the Nutrition for Growth summit in London tomorrow, we have been thinking about all the different ways that…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
USAID, USDA, CGIAR and other partners are developing ‘inventories’ to help drive widespread adaptation, dissemination, and adoption of critical agricultural technologies. The inventories will provide a technical evidence base to…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Hidden Hunger from Bob Caputo on Vimeo. Watch this handsomely made film (with superb writing as well as videography), produced in 2010 by National Geographic‘s Bob Caputo (run-time: 26 minutes). ‘Malnutrition does not make headlines…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Watch this new provocative 22-minute TedTalk by Allan Savory on ‘How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change’. Alan Savory, a Zimbabwean-born biologist/ecologist and rangelands specialist, gives environmentalists pause in a recent TedTalk,…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
The May issue of ‘Livestock Matter(s), explores a round-up of livestock development news, publications, presentations, images and upcoming events from ILRI and its partners. Download a print version – or sign up to get Livestock Matter(s) in your mailbox each month.…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Most years, ILRI brings together a wide mix of staff in an ‘annual program meeting’ (APM). This year’s event was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15–17 May 2013, and focused on ILRI’s 2013–2022 strategy. Jo…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
The CGIAR Livestock and Fish research program, led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making…

Originally posted on Science on the Land:
The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies. People at GFC are concerned…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Livestock herding in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The African livestock sector should be booming. Demand for animal-source foods is rising exponentially here. By mid-century, meat and milk consumption on the continent are expected to…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
American food writer and activist Michael Pollan (photo on Flickr by PopTech). The meat market, says Bill Gates, is ripe for reinvention. The market is growing fast to meet rising demands for animal-source foods throughout…

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
May 08, 2012 | by Bill Gates I’ve made many trips to Africa, but my recent visit to Ethiopia was definitely one of the most exciting. With effective governance and coordinated support from our foundation and…

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
The 2013 DATA Report: Financing the Fight for Africa’s Transformation The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline is now less than 1,000 days away. The world has officially entered the final leg of its 15-year journey to…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
A diverse, intercropped field A story carried by the Huffington Post yesterday suggested that the pace of biodiversity loss was increasing as a result of economic forces and global climate change, threatening the future…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Calorie Counts Posted on McDonald’s Lunch Menu The provision of the Obamacare Act requiring restaurants with more than 20 stores post calorie counts for their menu items was supposed to be in place already.…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Goat in Nairobi slum (photo on Flickr by The Advocacy Project). ‘. . . [L]et’s consider what it means to raise urban livestock in the developing world, where people are poorer and hungrier, and cities…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Charging Bull (sometimes called the Wall Street Bull), a 3,200 kg bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica, near Wall Street in New York City (photo on Flickr by Randy Lemoine). ‘Africa still suffers from a lack…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO and head of mission of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), based in South Africa, is chair of ILRI’s board of trustees (photo credit: Lindiwe Majele Sibanda).…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
A dairy cow on a smallholder farm in Ol Kalou, near Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Should farm animals share our cityscapes with us? While policies are often based on the prejudice that urban…

Originally posted on Science on the Land:
The first Soil Atlas of Africa became available last month. Bernard Appiah at the Guardian tells us why this atlas is big news. Living in the British Isles as I do, it’s almost…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Food Democracy Now Food policy advocates have begun a campaign around repeal of the Monsanto Protection Act. The act was actually part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, which was…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Climate scientists observed last week that the world crossed an important milestone. For the first time in 3 million years, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The last…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
A story by Tom Zeller at Huffington Post this week highlighted the intersection between climate change and global fisheries.  I blogged a couple of weeks ago about the potential impact of climate change on…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Farmer Ma Thi Puong feeds her pigs on her farm near the northern town of Meo Vac, Vietnam. Intensification of livestock farming has been found to increase the risk of zoonotic disease transmission (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Fincher on the Farm (Credit: Nashville Public Radio) In what has to be one of the most egregious examples of tone deafness, Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tennessee) condemned poor Americans who relied on the government’s…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” Captain Jean Luc Picard. Star Trek. It’s not quite replicator technology from Star Trek, but NASA today awarded a 6 month grant to a company to develop the world’s first…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
The Butcher Shop by Ferdnand Leger, 1921 (via WikiPaintings). ‘A World Bank report launched last week has suggested that Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030. ‘However, the pre-condition for…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Kenyan children weed a maize plot (photo on Flickr by Care of Creation). ‘A senior Kenyan government official has dismissed last year’s ban on the import of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the country—calling it…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has recently brought attention to two neglected areas of food security: forests and insects. On the 13th to 15th May 2013 the…