Here, for your New Year’s reading/viewing pleasure, are 20 slide presentations on 12 topics made by staff of ILRI in 2012 that we missed reporting on here (at the ILRI News Blog) during the year. Happy reading and Happy New Year!
Archive for January, 2013
“With habitat loss and biodiversity decline, we have lost valuable climate pattern indicators”
A farmer from Senegal pointed out at a recent climate services workshop, that there is a real need for reliable climate information for smallholder farmers as their climate and natural habitat change. Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR). Workshop report by Fatima…
PUBLICATION: Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia
A new IFPRI Discussion Paper by Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing: There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key objectives of development policy. From a policy perspective, it would be idea…
Reflections from LIVES baseline survey July – September, 2012: Impressions and lessons
Livestock and Irrigated Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project implemented by ILRI and IWMI undertook its project baseline survey from Jul-Sep 2012. Here are our reflections from the field and our lessons in the 4 regions, 10 zones, 30…
No feed, no livestock: Workshop underlines importance of Ethiopia’s feed resources
Organized by the Ethiopian Animal Feed Industry Association (EAFIA) and ACDI/VOCA on 21 Dec 2012, the workshop highlighted issues of feed resource availability and quality, marketing, quality issues; existing institutional policy support and the need t…