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Sustaining communities, livestock and wildlife: A guide to participatory...
This guide is designed to help communities and policy-makers at local and national levels make informed choices regarding land use, business ventures, and public policy in pastoral areas, particularly...
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Participatory epidemiology training course kicks off in Togo
This week, the Participatory Epidemiology Network for Animal and Public Health (PENAPH) holds a 5-day training course for trainers in Participatory Epidemiology, in Lomé, Togo. The 11 participants were...
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Telling their own story: Collaborative research using participatory video
One of the participating in the ‘AgKnowledge Africa’ Share Fair being held 18–21 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is Beth Cullen, an anthropology PhD...
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IPMS – Farm Radio Participatory Agricultural Radio Series in Ethiopia: Sidama
Farm Radio Int representative in Ethiopia signs agreement with ILRI/IPMS In 2011, Farm Radio international conducted a Participatory Agricultural Radio Series (PARS) related to two of the commodity...
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Participatory smallholder dairy value chain development in Ethiopia
This case study on Participatory smallholder dairy value chain development in Fogera woreda, Ethiopia: Experiences from IPMS project interventions by Tilahun Gebey, Tesfaye Lemma, Dirk Hoekstra, Azage...
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Improved beekeeping radio series makes waves in Ethiopia
In 2011, Farm Radio International conducted a Participatory Agricultural Radio Series (PARS) related to two of the commodity value chains of the Improving the Productivity and Marketing Success (IPMS)...
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Joining the PARADE: Lessons on participatory agricultural research by a...
I joined the PARADE workshop from 9 to 11 December 2013. PARADE stands for Participatory Agricultural Research: Approaches, Design and Evaluation. The PARADE event held this week was an expert meeting...
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How participatory agricultural research changes us – researchers share...
This post was drafted by Terry Clayton based on conversations and interactions with people participating in the Participatory Agricultural Research: Approaches, Design and Evaluation (PARADE) workshop...
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Power, partnership and participation: Nile Basin Development Challenge in...
Farmers getting trained on forage management at Kolugelan, Jeldu (Photo credit: ILRI / Aberra Adie) The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) was one of six challenges comprising the CGIAR Challenge...
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Driving livestock development through multidisciplinary systems research: An...
Forty years ago, the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA) was a pioneer in livestock systems research, which was designed to take account of the complexity of real farming systems so as...
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Scaling out livestock research: Struggles and successes are key says feed...
source: http://www.infortrend.com Scaling out research results for wider application and use is a goal of every research for development project in today’s CGIAR. It is also one of the most difficult...
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What is ‘complexity thinking’ and what does it have to do with development/aid?
Dave Algoso has a guest post on the blog of Oxfam’s Duncan Green reviewing three books about complexity thinking and development discourse. ‘In the last few years, complexity thinking has found its...
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The GCARD3 wake up call for R4D organizations: ‘Walk the talk’
A panel of experts at the GCARD3 conference (photo credit: CGIAR). Every agricultural research aims to benefit resource-poor farmers to eradicate poverty, hunger and malnutrition and environmental...
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On more rigorous informed consent in One Health cross-cultural livestock...
ILRI poster prepared by Tarni Cooper (concept and text), James Wakhungu (translation) and Timothy Hall (cartoons and design) as part of a What Is Killing My Cow? project in Tanzania. The poster was...
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CGIAR integrated systems research for sustainable agricultural development in...
Image credit: Humidtropics. A new book from CGIAR offers lessons for researchers working with smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia to further adoption of integrated agricultural systems innovations....
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Leveraging cross-sector partnerships to deliver animal health services in...
The social and economic importance of livestock in extensive pastoral systems is well known. Though livestock production is often the only source of livelihood in such systems, livestock keepers face a...
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