Today's science and development issues are complex, often involving multiple international players, yet demanding local solutions. Increasingly, many acknowledge that such local solutions can best be summed up and communicated by showing local people talking in their own surroundings, especially in a world where few outside the research communities have the time or expertise to assess raw data. In this setting, science and development documentaries fill a vital role.The film department at ILRI (the International Livestock Research Institute) therefore aims to widen understanding of important topics that face pro-poor agricultural research in livestock issues, so removing one stumbling-block to the quick up-take of new technologies among those who could benefit most.
Meat, milk and fish are critical to the poor both as food and income. While research has hugely increased farm production in rich countries, it hasn't succeeded yet to help the millions of family farms in developing nations to raise their production very much. The CGIAR research program on livestock and fish is experimenting with a different approach. Called ‘More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor’ , it's addressing the whole way these foods move from small farms to tables. This so-calle...
This video presentation by Shirley Tarawali explains and introduces the ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) strategy 2013 -2022
This video presentation by Jimmy Smith, Director General of ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) highlights issues related to ILRI and the Global Development Agenda.
A third of the world’s population still grows their own food or buys local food in local markets. But the foods poor people grow, buy and eat often make them sick, and can even kill them. Sick people cost poor families money because treatment is expensive and sickness stops them being productive. In 2012, a research program was started to investigate the links between agriculture, nutrition and health in poor nations.
Chickens have been central to global food security for a long time. Readily available, cheap, and easy to feed and transport, chickens are kept by hundreds of millions of the world’s poor. But with few resources, the local scavenging birds these farmers raise grow slowly, produce few eggs, and are susceptible to diseases, so most poor farmers cannot use them to improve their incomes. More small-scale chicken keepers need to have access to improved production methods to take advantage of the gl...
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is a highly contagious disease that affects cattle throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the most serious livestock diseases with greatest impacts in pastoralist areas. Up to 15% of infected animals die: milk yields of infected cows drop by up to 90%: meat production is reduced, and infected draught oxen are less able to work. Existing vaccines have side effects and give limited protection. Research is underway at the International Livesto...
Jemimah Njuki is a specialist in issues related to women and gender in agriculture. In this short film she explains her belief that farm animals could be one way for poor women to make money, feed their families better and educate their children. "Owning animal assets gives women power" says Njuki, ... and this gives women a voice ... and when women become equal partners, everyone benefits!"
This short film introduces some of the people, hosted institutions and facilities at the ILRI Nairobi campus.
This short film introduces some of the people, hosted institutions and facilities at the ILRI Addis Ababa campus.
Today's global population of 7 billion is predicted to expand to more than 9 billion by 2050. Will that more crowded world be able to produce enough food for everyone? And should livestock be part of evolving food security plans? In this 26 minute seminar, Mario Herrero, agro-ecological systems analyst at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) says that “the future lies in what we do with the world’s resources”, and concludes “livestock science will be fundamental to deliver the...
