Mbeya, Tanzania. After regularly providing his cows with adequate shelter and high quality balanced feed, Abel Mwandemange sees milk production in his cows significantly increase. Abel is one of thousands of dairy farmers in Tanzania who received good husbandry and feed training under ILRI-led Af...
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[Raising dairy productivity in Tanzania through better husbandry and feed]
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Raising dairy productivity in Tanzania through better husbandry and feed
Learn about how you can play your part improving animal welfare at the slaughterhouse in East Africa. This video was created primarily for a Kenyan audience, funded by a UK BBSRC/GCRF Public Engagement grant implemented by Laura Falzon who is part of the Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases Group, whic...
Falzon, Laura C.
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[Educational video on animal welfare at the slaughterhouse in East Africa]
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Educational video on animal welfare at the slaughterhouse in East Africa
Mbeya, Tanzania. Meet Lukas Mwambona and his bull, Mkombozi. Through genetics and data gathering, Mkombozi has been identified as one the country's top productive and environmentally resilient bulls under the African Dairy Genetic Gains (ADGG) program of ILRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Liv...
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[Super bull Mkombozi a symbol of high potential growth for Tanzania dairy]
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Super bull Mkombozi a symbol of high potential growth for Tanzania dairy
At ILRI's Mazingira Centre, a protocol has been developed that has been used to derive the first accurate Tier 2 emission factors for smallholder livestock systems in Africa. The research is informing ways of reducing emissions per kilogram of milk and meat produced by improving the productivity ...
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[Why livestock greenhouse gas emissions matter in Africa]
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Why livestock greenhouse gas emissions matter in Africa
This film describes how every one of the world's many livestock systems is being transformed by innovations in livestock development: research innovations, technological innovations, policy innovations and political will to drive economic development.
Jimmy Smith, ILRI director general, launching the ILRI open access week 2019. ILRI celebrated Open Access Week on 23-25 October with a number of activities to promote and build awareness on how open access can support research. This is a recording from WebEx so the picture quality is not high; bu...
In January 2018, the Rangelands Association of Kenya and ILRI partnered to host the Rangeland Communities Exchange Conference. ILRI’s support to the conference was undertaken through the 'Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: Taking suc...
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[Rangelands Communities Exchange Conference: Community resource management in Kenyan rangelands]
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Rangelands Communities Exchange Conference: Community resource management in Kenyan rangelands
Hambe, Haret
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[Storytelling session by Haret Hambe at the 2019 ILRI Institutional Planning Meeting]
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Storytelling session by Haret Hambe at the 2019 ILRI Institutional Planning Meeting
Gacheru, Lucy
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[Storytelling session by Lucy Gacheru at the 2019 ILRI Institutional Planning Meeting]
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Storytelling session by Lucy Gacheru at the 2019 ILRI Institutional Planning Meeting