Livestock director and partners launch first-ever index-based livestock...
ILRI director general Jimmy Smith speaks to residents of Marsabit, in northern Kenya, where a livestock insurance scheme has made its first payouts to small livestock keepers following a prolonged...
View ArticleShort films document first index-based livestock insurance for African herders
For those readers interested to get more local context about the recent first insurance payouts to livestock herders in Kenya’s northern Marsabit District (go here for an assembly of recent stories on...
View ArticleAfrica’s vast eastern and southern drylands get new attention–and...
A new CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is being planned to find ways to help dryland communities climb out of poverty while enhancing their food security and protecting their natural...
View ArticleSaving the plains: ILRI research team wins Sustainability Science Award for...
Research by ILRI is helping pastoralists in the Kitengela ecosystem better manage their land, animal and wildlife resources (photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann). A paper by the International Livestock Research...
View ArticleExperts comment on new drylands research program for eastern and southern Africa
Watch this brief ILRI video (run-time under 7 minutes) of quick comments made by six participants following a recent inception workshop hosted by ILRI to plan work in eastern and southern Africa by...
View Article‘Livestock insurance project an excellent example of innovative risk...
Marjaana Sall, deputy head of delegation of the European Union to Kenya, Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, Mohammed Elmi, Kenya’s minister of state for development of northern Kenya and other...
View ArticlePastoral livestock development in the Horn: Where the centre cannot (should...
Who eats better, pastoral children in mobile herding or settled communities? (answer: mobile). Which kind of tropical lands are among those most at risk of being grabbed by outsiders for development?...
View ArticleLowering the ‘water footprint’ of livestock products
A smallholder livestock farm in Dak Nong Province, Vietnam. Animals raised in mixed systems have a much lower water footprint on surface and groundwater bodies than those in industrialized farming...
View ArticleDryland agriculture program launched for developing countries: Hot topic for...
A sandstorm on the western shore of Lake Baringo (photo on Flickr by UN/Ray Witlin). A new science program launched in Jordan last week—the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems—is setting itself...
View ArticleIndex-based livestock insurance pilot launches today in drought-prone...
Kenya: dead and dying animals in previous drought in Arbajahan, in northern Kenya’s Wajir County (photo credit: Brendan Cox / Oxfam). Today (Sat 10 Aug 2013), Takaful Insurance of Africa is launching...
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