Category Archives: Event

Towards a robust national livestock market information system: Stakeholders convene to chart way forward
AVCD / Drylands / East Africa / Event / Kenya / Markets / Pastoralism / SLS

Towards a robust national livestock market information system: Stakeholders convene to chart way forward

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On 11 July 2017, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in collaboration with the State Department of Livestock (SDL) – Government of Kenya and the Africa Drylands Institute of Sustainability (ADIS) of the University of Nairobi, organized and facilitated a stakeholders’ workshop to showcase the different models used in establishing market information systems and identify ways of working together to achieve sustainable livestock market information systems. Continue reading →

CCAFS / Climate Change / Environment / Event / Livestock Systems / SLS

Improving reporting for agricultural emission reductions in the livestock sector

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To help track progress on countries’ mitigation pledges for Paris Agreement, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) facilitated a science-policy dialogue on measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation in the livestock sector on 7 November at COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco. Continue reading →

Elevating the sustainable pastoralism agenda
Drylands / Ethiopia / Event / Kenya / Pastoralism / Rangelands / Uncategorized

Elevating the sustainable pastoralism agenda

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Originally posted on ILRI news:
Ethiopia’s Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Shiferaw Teklemariam, speaks at UNEA-2 (photo credit: ILRI/Dorine Odongo). Written by Dorine Odongo, communications and knowledge management specialist for ILRI’s Livestock and Environment Program. A new  resolution on Combating desertification, land degradation and drought and promoting sustainable pastoralism and rangelands was presented and…

Agriculture / CCAFS / Climate Change / East Africa / Event / ILRI / Kenya / SLS

How about synergies in estimating greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture? Kenya and Uganda policy makers engage ILRI researchers

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On 3 and 4 May 2016, policy makers from climate change departments of Kenya and Uganda met with scientists from the Mazingira Centre, and the coordination team from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) for discussions on development of regional GHG inventories. Continue reading →

Africa / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Environment / Event / ILRI / Livestock Systems / Pastoralism / Rangelands / SLS / Tanzania

Out scaling sustainable rangeland management for secure rangeland reserves in Tanzania

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Written by Fiona Flintan, Rangelands Governance Scientist, ILRI On Monday 20 July 2015, in a meeting organised by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) together with other partners in the livestock sector in Tanzania, President Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete launched the Tanzania’s Livestock Modernization Initiative (TLMI). The Initiative had been prepared during an intensive week-long … Continue reading →

Africa / Drought / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / Environment / Event / Pastoralism / SLS

Pastoral land rights discussed at the global land forum in Dakar, Senegal

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The International Land Coalition’s biennial Global Land Forum (GLF) took place in Dakar, Senegal on 12-14 May 2015. At the meeting, the ILC Global Rangelands Initiative, which is coordinated and technically supported ILRI and RECONCILE, discussed ways of making rangelands more secure. Continue reading →