On 5 November 2010, David Collins, Canadian High Commissioner to Kenya spoke at the official Launch of the Biosciences eastern and Central Africa (BecA) Hub. Representing the founding funder of the Hub, he noted that BecA is conducting important research that will help address key agricultural is...
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[Canadian High Commissioner celebrates birth of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa Hub]
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Canadian High Commissioner celebrates birth of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa Hub
To help achieve the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) which Ethiopia is implementing, The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) through the Improving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers project (IPMS) is proving professional support to smallholder farmers. This is ...
Alan Duncan of ILRI and Jürgen Greiling of SNV Ethiopia reflect on a 'fodder roundtable' held at ILRI on 27 January 2011. The meeting discussed and evaluated current practices of feeding dairy cattle in Ethiopia.
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[Livestock research for development in a complex, messy world: Reflexions on a decade of work for ILRI]
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Livestock research for development in a complex, messy world: Reflexions on a decade of work for ILRI
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[Beekeeping colony splitting, transfer and management]
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Beekeeping colony splitting, transfer and management
A report from Cameroon about how the work of one inspiring extension officer has dramatically benefited a group of young people. Working as a common initiative group, they have learned how to use modern, highly productive farming methods, and their farming has been so successful that they are loo...
Meg Faville, a Peace Corps volunteer, describes how a group of women have learned to improve their mushroom handling and marketing, and become more self-reliant.