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Herders in drought-stricken northern Kenya get first livestock insurance...

Pastoralists from Marsabit, in Kenya’s remote northern drylands, play a game crafted by ILRI scientists to simulate livestock losses that could occur due to drought, in which the local herding...

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New training manuals for improving small-scale pig production: With lessons...

Children of a smallholder pig-farming household in Mon District, Nagaland, in the far northeastern corner of (tribal) India, which is participating in an ILRI project to help the rural poor enhance...

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‘Global Agenda of Action’ built for sustainable development of the world’s...

A Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development is being built. It focuses on the improvement of resource-use efficiency in the livestock sector to support...

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Developing an enabling global livestock agenda for our lives, health and lands

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith (left) and the World Bank’s Francois Le Gall are co-hosting a high-level consultation for a global livestock agenda to 2020 at ILRI’s Nairobi campus this week. Can our global...

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Towards a more coherent narrative for the global livestock sector

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith (left) and FAO’s Henning Steinfeld confer at a high-level consultation for a global livestock agenda to 2020 at ILRI’s Nairobi campus this week. High-level leaders in the livestock...

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Sharing the space: Seven livestock leaders speak out on a global agenda

Those interested in the future of the livestock sector—particularly in its potential to help alleviate world poverty and hunger without harming human health and the environment—will want to watch this...

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A new global alliance for a safer, fairer and more sustainable livestock sector

Eight major organizations working in livestock development are issuing a joint communiqué today, committing themselves to working in closer alliance to develop and fulfill on a global agenda for the...

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Fixing fodder shortages for dairy in East Africa and South Asia, beef in West...

Fodder cut and ready for transporting in northern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). In 2012, a group of researchers at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) worked with...

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The livestock boom in India: Pathways to an increasingly profitable, pro-poor...

India, already the world’s biggest milk producer and beef exporter (mostly water buffalo), is investing in research to ensure that its poorest people reap increasing benefits from raising farm animals...

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ILRI deputy director-general of research at World Bank summit makes (serious,...

  Livestock herding in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Two major recent World Bank agricultural summits in Mauritania and Senegal recently urged African countries and communities in the Sahel...

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