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This video was made to document best practices for use in crop genebanks as part of a project on management of crop diversity as a global public good under the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. It was filmed and produced at t...


International Livestock Research Institute[Pre-treatment of seeds and planting: Planting and transplanting]Pre-treatment of seeds and planting: Planting and transplanting

This story tells of the hopes of a Maasai pastoralist from Kenya's Kitengela rangelands and his dreams for his son Tajeu, who was born during a devastating drought.


International Livestock Research Institute[Tajeu: The boy born into drought]Tajeu: The boy born into drought

This photofilm features small-scale butchers and consumers interviewed in Nairobi and a commentary by Delia Grace, an epidemiolgoist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), on issues that connect animal and human health. This film was made for ILRI by duckrabbit, a UK-based mult...


International Livestock Research Institute[Dying for meat]Dying for meat

International Livestock Research Institute[Opening ceremony—Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Research facilities]Opening ceremony—Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Research facilities

Livestock keepers in West Africa rely largely on treating their cattle with drugs to protect them from trypanosomosis, but resistance to these drugs has emerged in many areas. This film outlines good practices for improving the use of drugs and slowing the emergence of resistance. These practices...


International Livestock Research Institute[Community-based integrated control of trypanosomosis in cattle]Community-based integrated control of trypanosomosis in cattle

Trypanosomiasis is a wasting disease of livestock that maims and eventually kills millions of cattle in Africa and costs farmers billions of dollars annually. In 2011, a group of geneticists at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, and other institutes in the UK identi...


International Livestock Research Institute[Battling a killer cattle disease]Battling a killer cattle disease

A third of the world’s population still grows their own food or buys local food in local markets. But the foods poor people grow, buy and eat often make them sick, and can even kill them. Sick people cost poor families money because treatment is expensive and sickness stops them being productive....


International Livestock Research Institute[The prevention and control of agriculture-associated diseases]The prevention and control of agriculture-associated diseases

Through photographs and captions, this film shares experiences from a 'Small ruminant value chains as platforms for reducing poverty and increasing food security in dryland areas of India and Mozambique' (imGoats) project. Between 2011 and 2013, the imGoats project worked with farmers in Inhassor...


International Livestock Research Institute[Improving livelihoods through goat rearing and commercialisation in Mozambique]Improving livelihoods through goat rearing and commercialisation in Mozambique

The 2009 drought in Kenya has had a devastating effect on pastoralists. Hundreds of thousands of cattle died and with them a way of life that had provided families a livelihood from the land. We met Lawrence in a quarry just out of of Nairobi. For many generations his family have reared cattle on...


International Livestock Research Institute[Surviving the drought in Kenya]Surviving the drought in Kenya

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