Category Archives: Interview

Agriculture / CGIAR / Climate Change / Environment / Farming Systems / ILRI / Interview / Livestock Systems / SLS

‘Hard talk’ on impacts of livestock, people and environment research at ILRI

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On 28 May 2014, Brian Perry, a former program leader at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and a well-known analyst of livestock-for-development issues, engaged four senior scientists from ILRI’s Livestock Systems and Environment (LSE) program in a ‘hard talk’ interview on the role, relevance and impacts of ILRI’s research in livestock systems and the environment. Continue reading →

Agriculture / CCAFS / CGIAR / Climate Change / Drought / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / Environment / Ethiopia / Farming Systems / ILRI / Interview / Livestock Systems / SLS

What works in natural resource management and environmental governance: Insights from an expert

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Natural resources and environmental management significantly affects pastoralists and other livestock keepers who live in drylands that cut across ecosystems. In such systems, wildlife and livestock move in and out of parks and community-protected areas with upstream-downstream effects along watersheds. How to incorporate these realities in an ecosystem management approach at a large scale is complex and not well understood because it … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / CCAFS / CGIAR / Climate Change / East Africa / Environment / Farming Systems / ILRI / Interview / Kenya / Livestock Systems / SLS

New environmental research centre improves GHG emissions inventories for the livestock sector in East Africa

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To address the environmental problems faced by the East African region, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has invested in an environmental research centre. Dubbed the Mazingira centre, the facility is based at the ILRI and has the capacity to measure a set of environmental parameters including livestock system GHG emissions, water flows as well as water and soil quality. In an interview with David Pelster, one of the scientists leading the initiative, we get to hear more about it. Continue reading →

Drought / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / Interview / Pastoralism / Resilience / SLS

Making rangelands secure for local users-insights from a rangelands governance expert

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Fiona Flintan, a rangelands governance scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) gives us an insight into her work and what needs to be done make rangelands secure for local users and build resilience Continue reading →