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Tanzania Dairy Development Forum holds second meeting
On 22 August 2013, the 2nd Dairy Development Forum (DDF) will be held at the Blue Pearl Hotel in Dar es Salaam. The meeting aims to begin to co-create solutions for three systemic bottlenecks to dairy...
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Swedish university signs collaboration agreement with ILRI for Livestock and...
Swedish University of Life Sciences Vice Chancellor Lisa Sennerby Forsse and ILRI Director General Jimmy Smith sign a Memorandum of Understanding (image: SLU/Jenny Svennås-Gillner) On 26 September...
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Linking dual-purpose livestock farmers in Nicaragua to specialized markets
As a result of the collaboration between the Livestock and Fish program, CATIE, and Heifer International with Solidaridad Network’s Farmer Support Program, the project “competitive beef and dairy...
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2014 CGIAR-US university linkages call for proposals
As last year, USAID has provided $US 107,800 to promote linkages between the livestock and fish research program and United States universities. Researchers in the four partner centres (ILRI, ICARDA,...
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Partnership between Livestock and Fish and Wageningen UR focus of recent...
Working group discussion at the roundtable meeting in Wageningen (photo: WUR/Ben Geerlings). ‘We are the same … though we are not the same’ – Livestock and Fish program director Tom Randolph kicked off...
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SNV signs collaboration agreement with ILRI for Livestock and Fish program
On 31 March 2014, Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Tom Derksen, managing director for agriculture of SNV Netherlands Development Organization...
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Livestock and Fish team assesses aquaculture opportunities in Bangladesh
In 2013, the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program added Bangladesh as its second aquaculture value chain after Egypt. Fish is the most important food after rice in Bangladesh, in addition...
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A meeting of minds – Livestock and Fish program kicks off collaboration with SNV
Following the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, staff from SNV’s global Dairy...
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Livestock and Fish call for proposals: Strengthening cross-CRP collaboration
The Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program is making a call for proposals to encourage collaboration with other CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs). The call targets CRP researchers with innovative ideas...
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Forages project wins 2014 CGIAR-US university linkages proposal through...
‘Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems through improved forages’ is this year’s CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish and US university linkages winning proposal. The proposal...
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Livestock and Fish program and GIZ meet to explore partnership
To enable its research achieve more impact at scale, the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program has put great effort in working together with global, regional and local partners. On 12 June 2014,...
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New multi-stakeholder platform addresses constraints in Uganda’s pig value...
A group session at a Uganda pig value chain multi-stakeholder platform meeting in Masaka (photo credit SNV/Joseph Semujju). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the SNV...
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On partnerships, alliances and relationships to achieve impact at scale
Partnerships: “We have many partners”, “We need to invest more in partnerships”. Everyone in research and development talks about partnerships. So much so that partnerships may be considered an empty...
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Sign up for new GIZ e-newsletter on agricultural research
The first issue of a new ‘GIZ developR Newsletter’ was recently released. The newsletter aims to ‘give fresh impetus to communication, exchange and collaboration between development cooperation and...
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Capacity development for sustainable food security: Role of public private...
Capacity development and public private partnership are hailed as global policy priorities in the draft sustainable development goals outcome document and the UN secretary general’s synthesis report...
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Uganda pig value chain project partners with private sector to boost access...
Pig farmers’ training course participants visiting a pig farm (photo credit: ILRI/Danilo Pezo). Advisory services are an important inputs in livestock production. In Uganda, these services were in the...
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Livestock and Fish program signs partnership agreement with the Swedish...
Jimmy Smith signs the agreement; Livestock and Fish director Tom Randolph look on Recently, ILRI director general Jimmy Smith signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement between the Swedish University of...
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Local government authorities in Tanzania commit to support continued growth...
While at the global level, many agricultural research for development actors have identified the need to embrace inclusive partnerships, effective linkages and stakeholder engagement as key in...
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Partnerships pay off for Uganda value chain project
The CGIAR Livestock and Fish Research Program aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable...
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Navigating upstream and downstream research: reflections from the Livestock...
In late 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish produced several synthesis products, including a series of briefs on its animal health work carried out between 2012 and 2016. This brief...
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