Getting (the band) back together: US climate report sees reconnecting crops...
Though less common in the United States than in developing countries, ILRI has long viewed farms that mix crop growing with livestock keeping as essential to overcoming challenges to global food...
View ArticleILRI at the CGIAR Development Dialogues: A ‘Storify’ collection of highlights
MUST VIEW: ‘Storify’ collection of inputs/outputs of @ILRI at @CGIAR_DD in New York 25 Sep http://t.co/74l3PJDaYC #32 — Susan MacMillan (@SusanMacMillan) September 27, 2014
View ArticleHighlights of a special ‘livestock evening’ at the Borlaug Symposium
Mark Poeschl, vice president of Cargill Premix and Nutrition, and James Kasongo, Zambia country director for Heifer International, two panel members at the ILRI-BMGF special livestock session at the...
View ArticleStorify highlights of special livestock session at the Borlaug Dialogue in Iowa
Selfie taken by Mitch Davis of Elanco (far right) at a special livestock session at the Borlaug Dialogue, 15 Oct 2014, hosted by ILRI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From left to right:...
View ArticleFood scares: Agrifood systems everywhere need greater cooperation and...
This infographic was created by IFPRI using ILRI facts and figures sourced from Simeon Kaitibie, Amos Omore, Karl Rich, Beatrice Salasya, Nick Hooten, Daniel Mwero, and Patti Kristjanson, ‘Policy...
View Article‘We’re having all the wrong debates’–Tamar Haspel
Robert Indiana, Eat/Die, 1962. Award-winning journalist Tamar Haspel makes the case in her latest Washington Post column for exchanging our polarizing arguments about food issues for debates about...
View ArticleILRI’s Shirley Tarawali joins global livestock industry leaders to discuss...
Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), will today (Friday, 4 Mar 2016) join global livestock industry leaders to discuss ‘Beef’s role in...
View ArticleGates Foundation grants Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems...
Drying and storing animal fodder, and feeding and milking cattle, in West Africa (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). The University of Florida has been awarded USD8.7 million from the Bill &...
View ArticleIFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential...
While the potential harms of raising livestock and consuming meat, milk, and eggs are frequently discussed in the Western media these days, their benefits for much the world’s population, especially in...
View ArticleUniversity of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI...
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement on Jimmy W Smith, director general of the...
View ArticleAs United States marks January as ‘National One Health Awareness Month’,...
Menz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet) Each year, an International One Health Day is celebrated globally on 3 Nov. Last month, the US Senate designated Jan 2020 as ‘National One Health...
View ArticleExcursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’...
Written by Susan MacMillan and Ekta Patel ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Part 1 For two months at the start of this year, Jayne Raper, a professor of...
View Article