Transforming Mozambique’s poultry sector
Speaking at a recent meeting on the ‘Impact of U.S. Support on Farming, Poverty and Stability in Mozambique’, Florencia Cipriano, Head of Veterinary Services in Mozambique, described the country’s...
View ArticleFeeding the world: ‘Let them eat [CGIAR] research’– Economist
Customers rush to buy bread, a staple in high demand in Mozambique, after it arrives at a bakery in the south of the country as wheat ran short and food prices rose in 2008 (photo credit: ILRI/Mann)....
View ArticleReducing hunger and poverty through goat ‘value chains’ in India and Mozambique
In many of the world’s dry areas, goats provide poor people with nutrition and livelihoods. An imGoats Project is working to transform the lives of goat keepers in India and Mozambique by turning...
View ArticleBattle against global poverty making headway–United Nations
Residents of Barack Obama’s families village of Kogelo, Kenya, celebrate his inauguration (photo by Zoriah on Flickr). The United Nations reports that the war against poverty is progressing well in...
View ArticleInnovation platforms: Documenting experiences from the imGoats project and...
Innovation platforms are a complex and some would say a not-so-straightforward approach. Nevertheless, ILRI, other CGIAR centers and other partners are using this approach in various projects such as...
View ArticleWomen, livestock ownership and markets: Bridging the gender gap in eastern...
Authored by Jemimah Njuki and Pascal Sanginga, this book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an...
View ArticleSlum livestock agriculture
All artwork on this page by Bill Traylor. Maria Teresa Correa, an epidemiologist and public health professor at North Carolina State University, and Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food...
View ArticleThe ‘big bet’ on chickens for Africa
Local hen and her chick in a village of Mozambique, where production costs for farmers are 30% higher than the cost of importing chicken (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). With a growing appetite for...
View ArticleBeef fattening ready for take-off in southern Africa with new financing made...
Cattle in Zimbabwe waiting to be weighed before the auction (photo credit: ICISAT/Swathi Sridharan). Rural farmers in Zimbabwe and the whole of Southern Africa are set to receive a major boost in...
View ArticleGraça Machel wins this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development
Graça Machel, winner of this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development (photo credit: World Prize for Integrated Development). The 2018 World Prize for Integrated Development has been awarded to...
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