Peter Greste, a journalist with Al Jazeera, recently accompanied veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert Delia Grace to the slums of Nairobi, to take a first-hand look at ‘urban farming’, livestock farming in particular. Grace works for IL…
We’ve discussed the links between livestock and disease and why livestock play such an important role in human disease. The next question we have to ask is to try and put some details on this, to put some parameters on it. So, if disease matters, and…
Since July the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish team has engaged with national partners and stakeholders to identify research sites and partners. And today, the first of two planned training workshops on tools for the rapid assessment of sh…
ILRI seeks to recruit a dynamic Head for its newly created unit for Business Development initiatives. The Head of Business Development will play the lead role in ensuring that the growing demand for livestock research in development countries is transl…
A new study by FAO argues that to succeed, livestock breed conservation efforts must empower women.Women livestock keepers worldwide must be recognized as the major actors in efforts to arrest the decline of indigenous breeds, crucial for rural food se…
