The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock & Fish has identified 9 value chains of great importance to smallholders and poor people. The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health is focusing on nutrition and food safety aspects of these important animal source value chains. This requires new tools and approaches to prioritize trade-offs.
For the past 3 years, Catherine Pfeifer, a post-doc at ILRI and IWMI was involved in the Nile Basin Development Challenge project on ‘Targeting and scaling out of rainwater management systems‘. In this interview she shares some views on her involve…
A new working paper from WorldFish argues that the availability of genetically more productive fish stock “must progress hand in hand” with refinements in the production systems in which the fish will reared and marketed. The authors indicate there…
A new book, ‘Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins’, edited by Andy Catley, Jeremy Lind, and Ian Scoones.includes a chapter by scientists at ILRI on ‘Climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: What consequenc…
Book cover of Pastoralism and Development in Africa, published 2012 (Photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann).
