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Optimizing variations of food-feed traits of wheat cultivars to benefit mixed...
Scientists have tested bread wheat cultivars released in the Ethiopian highlands to better understand the potential trade-offs between food and fodder traits (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). Mixed...
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Thirty percent of ILRI genebank collections now safely duplicated at the...
ILRI news Alieu Sartie, ILRI genebank manager (right) and technician Solomon Fikre checking forage seed samples before delivery to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (photo credit:ILRI/Lei Sun). The...
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Animal nutrition approaches to profitable livestock farming and sustainable...
A smallholder livestock farmer in India. Animal feeding and nutrition deserves greater attention as a critical discipline in addressing the environmental impacts of animal-sourced foods production...
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FeedLink – to link fodder surplus-deficit regions
Innovation that helped to convert wasteland grass into enriched silage after value addition and densification. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is one of the CGIAR partners of the...
View ArticleIrrigated forages improve livestock productivity and livelihoods in Ethiopia
By Aberra Adie and Michael Blummel Despite having Africa’s largest livestock population, Ethiopia has not realized the full benefits from the sector due to low animal productivity which is attributed...
View ArticleShort assignment: Mapping Feasibility of Livestock Feed Options in the Tropics
Livestock feed is a critical constraint to livestock productivity in Low and Middle Income Countries. Livestock feed development efforts have, however, tended to promote new feeding strategies in a...
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New insights into the diversity of Napier grass: More productivity in fully...
ILRI news Napier grass growing in the ILRI field gene bank in Ziway, Ethiopia (photo credit: Shawn Landersz/Global Crop Diversity Trust). Napier grass commonly referred to as elephant grass, or Uganda...
View ArticleConsultancy opportunity: editing and improving draft reports from application...
The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) is a participatory method to support systematic selection of livestock feed interventions at community level. FEAST has been applied in over a dozen countries and...
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The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) – new developments
G-FEAST – a gendered version of FEAST Feeding cows; Tana River watershed, Kenya; Credit Georgina Smith CIAT Feeding livestock involves multiple tasks including planting, weeding and harvesting of...
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Adding value to livestock feed assessment data: FEAST global data repository...
(Photo credit: ILRI/Alan Duncan) The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) has been widely applied across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia as a way to support improved livestock feed interventions among...
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