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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…
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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…
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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…
Source: http://www.thechicagocouncil.org See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security
Originally posted on ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program:
The ‘Advancing agri-practice: Adding value for women’ workshop was held at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya on 23-24 May, 2011. Cosponsored by the International Center for…
Originally posted on ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program:
Women pounding grain for the evening meal in Khulungira Village, in central Malawi (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) By Jo Cadilhon The fifteen research centres collaborating in the global CGIAR partnership have all…
Originally posted on Thought + Food:
Before I went off to the hospital to have my baby, I showed off to my mother the stock of frozen vegetables in the freezer: peas, beans, greens, this would last us a while. She,…
Originally posted on Thought + Food:
There is a new buzzword in the investing world and it is “ag-tech”; funds are pouring in to bring the latest technology into the farm sector and transform food production. From farming apps to robots…
Bill Gates reviews the book “Should We Eat Meat?” by his favorite author Vaclav Smil. Source: http://www.gatesnotes.com See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security
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Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Pork joints in Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Martin Heilmann, Freie Universitaet Berlin). The following excerpts are taken from a guest commentary, Healthy foods must be nutritious, safe and fair, published on the Global Food for Thought…
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Aflatoxin-contaminated groundnut kernels from Mozambique (photo credit: IITA). ? Among the many research projects carried out by the Food Safety and Zoonoses program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is one that aims to reduce the…
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Demand for milk and meat continues to rise in developing countries (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The New Agriculturist recently reported on a Safe Food, Fair Food Project led by scientists at the International Livestock Research…
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Woman feeds her milk cow in Embu, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Developing-country livestock keepers need more and better drugs to keep their animals alive and productive, and there are increasing numbers of livestock in the…
Around the Budongo forest, expanding sugarcane production, the establishment of tree plantations and forest loss have altered the landscape. In this rural area where nearly all households have a ho… Source: canwefeedtheworld.wordpress.com See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food … Continue reading
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
An animal vaccinated against East Coast fever, as shown by its ear tag (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Herds of African cattle may hold the secret to new ways of fighting parasitic diseases like malaria, which…
Over 70% of consumers would eat fish, chicken or pork from animals fed on a diet containing insect protein, earlier studies revealed. The EU funded project PROteINSECT is now asking EU consumers again if they are accepting animal products that … Continue reading
A new article (ungated version here) in World Development crystallized a few of the thoughts I have been mulling over regarding contract farming and the participation of smallholders in agricultural value chains in developing countries–an area where I have done a … Continue reading
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
In his recently released annual letter, Bill Gates has made a series of “big bets” for development. One of these bets, that Africa will be able to feed itself…
Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Capacity development and public private partnership are hailed as global policy priorities in the draft sustainable development goals outcome document and the UN secretary general’s synthesis report provides guidance on…
For the past year or so, I have been working on a paper with my colleague Rob King which I am hoping to debut sometime soon in which we look at the relationship between farmers markets and food-borne illness. I … Continue reading
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Recently the UK passed a bill which enshrines in law their commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) on aid every year, a target first reached by…
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
The camel milk is finding its way in the new world (from sand dunes of Arabia to the western world) because of its hidden treasures of health promising ingredients. Traditionally used…
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
Traditionally camel milk had been using for the treatment of many complex and diverse ailments of the pastoral communities of Baloch Pashtun tribes. These camel pastoralists camel pastoralists use camel milk…
Originally posted on Pastoralists, Nomads, Small and Medium Scaled Family Farmers are the Custodian of Native genetic resources and Sustainable Farming Systems:
Camel is integral part of the deserted ecosystems and blessed with special traits/characteristics which give strange potential to…
Originally posted on Pastoralists, Nomads, Small and Medium Scaled Family Farmers are the Custodian of Native genetic resources and Sustainable Farming Systems:
I am Raziq belong to the remote and the poorly infra-structured area of Pakistan named as the Balochistan…
Originally posted on Pastoralists, Nomads, Small and Medium Scaled Family Farmers are the Custodian of Native genetic resources and Sustainable Farming Systems:
Small-scale livestock production is based on subsistence foundations. Such livestock keepers keep mostly their indigenous livestock breeds, as…
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
Camel has adapted mechanisms that allow it to withstand prolonged water deprivation, high temperature, especially in the absence of readily available water, and survive when feed resources are scarce or of…
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
Camel is a cool, happy and calm animal. Opposite to common believing as dangerous, this unique creature has a soul with love and remembrance. Camel realize the feelings of a person…
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
The atrocities of climate change are emerging with multi-dimensional outcomes in different parts of the world with different intensities and level of losses. The historical Bactria region1 (Also, Arya) is one of…
Originally posted on PENAPH:
The ComAcross Project is supporting a training initiative in Participatory Epidemiology (PE) in South East Asia to contribute to skills development useful in for the implementation of One Health approaches in the region. PE takes a…
Originally posted on AgHealth:
A woman milks one of her goats in Ségou District, Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). Almost two-thirds of the world’s 925 million poor livestock keepers are rural women, and women often predominate in urban agriculture.…
Originally posted on LIVES-Ethiopia:
Farmers and development agents getting a practical training on apple tree management and scion selection in Holeta (photo credit: ILRILIVES). The Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project is testing different training approaches and…
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The Budongo Forest Landscape, in western Uganda, has, in the recent past, seen a marked change in the land cover, predominantly from forest to sugarcane. The expansion of sugarcane…
Originally posted on ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program:
The International Women’s day is commemorated worldwide on 8 March each year. ‘Make it happen’ is the 2015 theme. Towards this day, this blog will feature stories of partners collaborating with the International…
“Healthy Food for a Healthy World,” aims to build awareness about the important role food can play in promoting health and alleviating malnutrition. We will publish one blog post each week exploring these issues, and the series will culminate in … Continue reading
Originally posted on DESERTIFICATION:
Read at : UNNews MORE MUST BE DONE TO REFORM GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM TO FIGHT CRISIS, SAYS UN EXPERT New York, Sep 18 2009 10:05AM Investing in agriculture alone will not solve the food crisis, a…
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BOOSTING FOOD PRODUCTION ALONE WILL NOT SOLVE HUNGER CRISIS – UN EXPERT New York, May 7 2009 1:00PM An independent United Nations expert warned today that ramping up food production on its own would not alleviate…
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============== Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/03/un-report-reveals-overwhelming-benefits.html UN report reveals overwhelming benefits of eco-farming? by Brigid Darragh The latest report out from the United Nations reveals farmers in developing nations can double food production in ten years’ time…
Originally posted on LIVES-Ethiopia:
Kelifa is one of the farmers from Jimma who joined the training and study tour to learn about improved vegetable production techniques in Holeta and Meki (photo credit: ILRIGemeda Duguma. Tomato is one of the most…
Originally posted on Food Governance :
Here is a copy of Tim Wise and Sophia Murphy’s update to their influential article: “Resolving the food crisis: The need for decisive action“ You can see it on the Triple Crisis Blog (which is worth a read if…
Originally posted on Food Governance :
Recently, a paper was published that supports land grabbing for food security. The paper suggests that the land in question is ‘marginally utilised’ and land grabbing will lead to more food being produced. In the article, the…
Originally posted on Food Governance :
A new FAO report – Trends and Impacts of Foreign Investment in Developing Country Agriculture – Evidence from case studies – has just been released. The report presents an analysis of the foreign investment in…
Originally posted on Food Governance :
La Via Campesina Press Release (Rome October 15th, 2014) The delegation of La Via Campesina, gathered in Rome for the 41st session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), recognizes the CFS as the major…
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