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Voices from the sixth Africa Agriculture Science Week 2013
Click to Play Change mindsets, embed policymaking, make efficient use of declining biomass, engage the private sector. These and other recommendations of four participants attending the ongoing sixth...
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Northwest Vietnam situational analysis shapes up for CGIAR Humidtropics...
Researchers elaborate their workplans (image: ILRI/Jo Cadilhon). On 15 and 16 August 2013 the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) organized the launch meeting for situational analysis work in northwest...
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Is there an integrative role for livestock in agricultural systems? Positive...
I have just come back from Sapa, Vietnam, where I helped facilitate the launch meeting for the situational analysis of the CGIAR Humidtropics Research Program in northwest Vietnam. After the meeting,...
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Joining the PARADE: Lessons on participatory agricultural research by a...
I joined the PARADE workshop from 9 to 11 December 2013. PARADE stands for Participatory Agricultural Research: Approaches, Design and Evaluation. The PARADE event held this week was an expert meeting...
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Condensing lots of information into a situational analysis report: think...
Group photo of the participants of the writeshop to write up the situational analysis report of the Humidtropics Northwest Vietnam action site situational analysis, 25 January 2014, Hoa Binh Province,...
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Eight principles for land and water management in the Nile Basin
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) aimed to improve the resilience of rural livelihoods in the Ethiopian highlands through a landscape approach to rainwater management. At the end of the...
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Northwest Vietnam situation analysis starting point for Humidtropics research...
Terraced rice fields in Northwest Vietnam The International Livestock Research Institute recently published a ‘situational analysis of agricultural production and marketing, and natural resources...
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Introducing situational analysis approach of Humidtropics research program
The CGIAR Humidtropics Research Programs aims to help poor farm families in tropical Africa, Asia and Americas to boost their income from integrated agricultural systems’ intensification while...
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National Geographic weighs in on (several) inconvenient truths and (several...
Georgia O’Keefe, Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue, 1931 (via Metropolitan Museum of Art). There’s a new feature article in National Geographic this month titled: Carnivore’s Dilemma. Written by Robert...
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Driving livestock development through multidisciplinary systems research: An...
Forty years ago, the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA) was a pioneer in livestock systems research, which was designed to take account of the complexity of real farming systems so as...
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Ethiopia’s Livestock Master Plan makes a public splash in the research...
An Ethiopian ‘Livestock Master Plan’ is a big, and recent, example of cooperation between the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Government of Ethiopia. That plan aims to change...
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A BIG conversation starts on ways to increase food supplies while protecting...
An animated 3-minute video clip by the University of Minnesota’s Institute for the Environment. Justin Gillis has published an interesting piece this week in the Green Blog of the New York Times on a...
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Foresight modeling to guide sustainable intensification of smallholder systems
At this week’s international conference on Integrated Systems Research for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture, Dolapo Enahoro made a presentation on foresight modeling to guide...
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New method of identifying and analysing barriers smallholders face in...
Researchers have designed a cheaper and more effective method of identifying farmers’ constraints in accessing markets (photo credit: C Schubert/CCAFS). Globally, smallholder producers face an array...
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‘Mixing it up’ down on the farm to better adapt to climate change
Raising animals as well as growing crops is a key strategy for small-scale farmers adapting to climate change (photo credit: CCAFS/Vivian Atakos). We are not aware of any studies to date that compare...
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American agricultural economist Steve Staal leads livestock policy, trade and...
Steve Staal, leader of ILRI’s Policy, Trade and Value Chains program (photo credit: ILRI). Steve Staal, who for the past 15 months has served the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in...
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Manure: A valuable resource—a 3-part webinar on a ‘win-win-win-win-win’...
The Livestock and Manure Management project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University & Research Centre (Wageningen UR) invite you to join a...
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US ambassador to Burkina Faso visits ILRI-led Feed the Future Sustainable...
On 6 October 2016 the Ambassador of the United States to Burkina Faso, H E Tulinabo S Mushingi, visited Ziga in Yatenga Province, one of the implementation sites of the Feed the Future Sustainable...
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CGIAR integrated systems research for sustainable agricultural development in...
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....
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New analysis reports we don’t need to double world food production by 2050
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...
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