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ILRI research in the Nile Basin, Ethiopia and Sudan

At a meeting of the CGIAR in Morocco last December, ILRI reported on community-focused research in Central and Western Asia and North Africa to improve agriculture, water, ruminant health and market...

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Livestock use of water in Nile Basin: Huge opportunities to use water...

Principal investigators undertaking research on livestock use of water in the Nile River Basin met at ILRI in Ethiopia on 11 and 12 November 2009. Representatives from Sudan’s Agricultural Economics...

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Ethiopian president bestows his nation’s highest award on Ethiopian sorghum...

Scientist whose work has enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa is honoured in Ethiopia At a reception at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,...

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East Coast fever vaccine comes to market in eastern and southern Africa

As the board of trustees of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) meets in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week, reviewing ILRI’s animal health research among other work, an ILRI vaccine...

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The future of pastoralism in Africa debated in Addis: Irreversible decline or...

A Maasai man takes his goats out in the early morning for a day’s grazing in northern Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). An international conference deliberating the future of pastoralists in Africa...

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The case for index-based livestock insurance and cash payments for northern...

ILRI is working with insurance companies to train livestock herders in Kenya’s northern drylands in the benefits and costs of a new index-based livestock insurance first made available in Marsabit...

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Punctuated equilibrium: Pastoralist timelines of past and future

On the last day (23 March 2011) of a ‘Future of Pastoralism in Africa’ Conference, organized by the Future Agricultures Consortium and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and held in...

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More ‘crop per drop’? Only when ‘more milk per drop’ saves the poor as well...

Herder boys and cattle both cool their bodies in the midday heat in the Awash River in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, posing health problems for people at such shared livestock watering sites (photo...

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Pastoral livestock development in the Horn: Where the centre cannot (should...

Who eats better, pastoral children in mobile herding or settled communities? (answer: mobile). Which kind of tropical lands are among those most at risk of being grabbed by outsiders for development?...

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Alliance meeting this week to battle global ‘goat plague’

The PPR virus, commonly known as goat plague, swept across southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya in 2008; Mohammed Noor lost 20 goats in the just one week and wondered how he would provide for his...

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