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Are we making a difference with resilience? A quick tour of the obvious, the...
Drylands and resilience side event Resilience has been the talk of development and humanitarian communities for some time already – so much so that it runs the risk of creating as much noise and...
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Research to influence policy: Taking dryland ecosystems research beyond the...
There is increasing enthusiasm for evidence-based policymaking and a need for researchers to use their knowledge, research findings, and other global networks, to influence policy change to address...
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Household level models help choose adaptation options
A recent workshop charted plans for modelling tools that help measure how adaptation options impact farming households, with implications for how adaptation policy is defined. Household level models...
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Tim Robinson presents livestock production systems data at Global Agenda for...
The Livestock System and Environment (LSE) research program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works towards realizing increased uptake of strategies for the sustainable...
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What policy options for sustainable pastoralism and rangeland governance?...
How can policy assure that devolution in pastoralist rangelands meets the needs of all three pillars of sustainability? This was the central question in a panel discussion convened by...
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Future of smallholder and pastoral livestock systems discussed at ILRI@40...
On 6 and 7 November 2014, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a high-level conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to mark 40 years of its existence. This was the second last of a...
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A new project initiated to manage short-lived climate pollutant emissions...
Participants during the Livestock manure management project workshop in Addis Ababa (photo credit: ILRI) Reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) has the potential to decrease the...
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Livestock and climate change: Workshop on successes in implementing...
Participants of a ‘livestock and climate change’ workshop held 2-3 February 2015 at the ILRI campus, Nairobi (photo credit: ILRI/Samuel Mungai). ‘Livestock and climate change’ was the topic of a recent...
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Pastoral land rights discussed at the global land forum in Dakar, Senegal
By Fiona Flintan, rangelands governance scientist, ILRI The International Land Coalition’s biennial Global Land Forum (GLF) took place in Dakar, Senegal on 12-14 May 2015. Home to 3.2 million Fulani...
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Out scaling sustainable rangeland management for secure rangeland reserves in...
Written by Fiona Flintan, Rangelands Governance Scientist, ILRI ILRI’s Amos Omore (extreme left) looks on as President Kikwete signs the Tanzania Livestock Modernisation Initiative document (photo...
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Catherine Mungai wins best paper prize at symposium on climate change...
By Joyce Maru Catherine Mungai, an International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)–Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE) fellow, has won the best paper award at a...
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How about synergies in estimating greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture?...
Agriculture (not including land use change) contributes on average 35% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in developing countries today. For years these countries, including Kenya and Uganda, have...
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Elevating the sustainable pastoralism agenda
ILRI news Ethiopia’s Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Shiferaw Teklemariam, speaks at UNEA-2 (photo credit: ILRI/Dorine Odongo). Written by Dorine Odongo, communications and...
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Improving reporting for agricultural emission reductions in the livestock sector
To help track progress on countries’ mitigation pledges for Paris Agreement, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the International Livestock Research...
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Towards a robust national livestock market information system: Stakeholders...
Participants at the stakeholders’ workshop on livestock market information system held on 11 July 2017 in Naivasha, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Dorine Odongo) Access to accurate and timely market...
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Learning Initiative on reducing land conflicts between farmers and livestock...
Goats in Wajir, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale). The PROCASUR Corporation in Africa in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have partnered with the...
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Making rangelands more secure: Online dialogue this week
Hand of a Maasai pastoralist holding soil from his group ranch Olkirimatian, Kajiado, Kenya – a symbol of land security (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flintan). The global component of the International...
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It’s all systems go for the scaling up of index-based livestock insurance in...
Policymakers, development actors and representatives of government and the private sector met on 10 July 2018 in Ethiopia for a policy dialogue that delivered a clear roadmap for the scale of...
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Bringing rangelands management into the sustainable landscapes agenda
Despite some promising initiatives to apply the landscape approach to a diversity of ecosystem types and an agenda that is gradually becoming more inclusive, until now the sustainable landscapes...
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Optimizing the role of livestock in mixed farming systems to enhance food...
Rapid population growth has continued to increase the demand for agricultural products in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Sustainable agriculture, which entails the production of food using farming methods...
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