Tag: livestock
Moving with the Times: Pastoralists Share Lessons in Sustainability
Asia: Pastoralists, who face the toughest of challenges from climate change, are well-placed to offer lessons in how to adapt to new weather conditions.
Read More#FillTheGap! Women bring home the bacon in Malawi
Africa & Middle East: By practising conservation farming techniques, Ethel Khundi produced almost three times more maize than she had done a year earlier, offsetting livestock losses to swine flu.
Read More#FillTheGap! Scaling up equality in Kenya
Africa & Middle East: With the help of IFDC, Beatrice Gichuru is setting the standard for equality in her area by proving that a woman can truly succeed with or without a husband.
Read MoreCombatting the AMR Crisis in the African Livestock Sector
Global: Supporter organisation AgriProFocus discusses steps needed to curb the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance in the livestock sector.
Read MoreFive Fast Facts About Meat & the Environment
Global: Assistant Director General of ILRI takes a closer look at livestock's impact on the environment, and what can be done to manage its environmental "hoofprint".
Read More#IamAg! Meet Mengistu Alemu, a Veterinary Technician from Ethiopia
Africa & Middle East: Mengistu was inspired to become a veterinary technician after seeing government farming advisors visit his village as a boy.
Read More#IamAg! Meet Rossmery, Animal Scientist from Peru
Latin America & the Caribbean: Rossmery's grandparents, who kept livestock, inspired her to become an animal scientist. Read about her day-to-day life on her farm in Peru.
Read MoreLivestock is a Key to Human Development – Where Have We Missed the Mark?
Africa & Middle East: Farm Africa's Head of Agriculture asks if the livestock sector is under-resourced in the developing world.
Read MoreStrategies to Transform the Livestock Sector
Global: Professor Makkar of FAO blogs about the innovative feeding methods that can reduce the environmental "hoofprint" of livestock.
Read MoreReframing Resilience for Pastoralists
Africa & Middle East: Our guest author, Lance Robinson, an environmental governance and resilience specialist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), opens our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. When we speak of ‘resilience’ […]
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