Anne Waters-Bayer (Ecology, Technology, Culture Foundation (ETC) Netherlands) explained that gender research still struggles to help women manage their household and childraising work. Without targeting training in these areas, women will continue to miss out.
Between 10-13 December 2011, ILRI convened the Progress meeting on Ecosystem approaches to the better management of zoonotic emerging infectious diseases in the South East Asian Region. Here, Rainer Asse from ILRI details the main talking points from the meeting.
In early May 2011, people working on the Nile Basin Development Challenge (http://nilebdc.org) met in Addis Ababa in a 'science and reflection workshop'. Session 2 of the workshop examined institutional and other processes that are key to success of the overall program. In this video, Jemimah Nju...
Njuki, Jemimah
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[Innovation platforms to improve rainwater management in the NBDC—group feedback]
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Innovation platforms to improve rainwater management in the NBDC—group feedback
Biosciences offer the opportunity for many regions in Africa to produce surplus food for the first time. Without biosciences research within African agriculture will face a difficult future. The Bio-Innovate program is therefore important because it will stimulate new industries that are linked t...
ILRI's Alan Duncan was asked to share a Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) 'story' at the recent International Forum on Water and Food. Alan's story introduces some of the challenges that the Ethiopian Government faces in seeking to improve natural resources management at the local level, in...
Duncan, Alan J.
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[Ethiopia can be Africa's 'breadbasket' as well as its 'water tower']
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Ethiopia can be Africa's 'breadbasket' as well as its 'water tower'
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...
Speaking after a presentation at ILRI Addis Ababa on 11 February 2011, Digital Green CEO Rikin Ghandi elaborates on the model by which video and mediated instruction can complement and enhance traditional extension with farming communities in India.
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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[CIAT in Africa: 50 years building a sustainable food future]
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CIAT in Africa: 50 years building a sustainable food future
International Livestock Research Institute
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[Opening ceremony—Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Research facilities]
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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
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[Community-based integrated control of trypanosomosis in cattle]
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Community-based integrated control of trypanosomosis in cattle