CCAFS / Environment / Ethiopia / Event / ILRI / Livestock Systems / SLS

A new project initiated to manage short-lived climate pollutant emissions from livestock manure

On 18-19 November 2014, the livestock manure management project organized and held a workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which attracted a total of 21 participants from 14 countries. The objective of the workshop was to review progress in summarizing current policies and practices, and also provide an opportunity for presentations on some of the current opportunities for improved management that are being pursued. Continue reading

Event / Geodata / Humid Tropics / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Presentation / SLS

Tim Robinson presents livestock production systems data at Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock meeting

On 7- 10 October 2014, the agenda held the fifth Multi-stakeholder platform (MSP) meeting in Colombia. Tim Robinson, a senior spatial analysis and statistician at ILRI participated in the meeting in which he delivered two presentations focusing on the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases (GRA), an animal health and greenhouse gas emissions intensity network; and on the Livestock Geo-Wiki manure management module. Continue reading