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Niger: Emergency assistance is not enough
Emergency assistance is not enough to end Niger's hunger problems. The underlying causes of the current crisis can be addressed only through longer term research, development and policy programs...
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Photo essay: Niger: Behind the famine footage
The words being spilled over the hunger crisis in Niger are rising to a torrent. Media attention and consequent growing concern over soaring levels of child malnutrition finally made the crisis...
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Numbers of malnourished children in Africa predicted to grow
New study is 'reality check' for forthcoming World Summit +5 The number of malnourished children in Niger and other African countries will grow if neglect of agricultural research and development...
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West Africa’s regional livestock trade
Regional livestock trade in West Africa is suffering due to lack of policy integration and illegal cross-border “taxes”. Livestock trade policies differ widely between countries in West Africa. Burkina...
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Bird maps developed for Uganda
ILRI and Uganda experts have just produced a series of poultry density maps for Uganda, which will provide information on potentially threatened areas in the event of bird flu reaching the country....
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Exploring farmer-herder relations and conflict management in Niger
This week, ILRI and partners are presenting research on farmer-herder relations and conflict management at an international conference on 'the future of transhumance pastoralism in west and central...
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The future of pastoralism in Africa debated in Addis: Irreversible decline or...
A Maasai man takes his goats out in the early morning for a day’s grazing in northern Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). An international conference deliberating the future of pastoralists in Africa...
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Punctuated equilibrium: Pastoralist timelines of past and future
On the last day (23 March 2011) of a ‘Future of Pastoralism in Africa’ Conference, organized by the Future Agricultures Consortium and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and held in...
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ILRI deputy director-general of research at World Bank summit makes (serious,...
Livestock herding in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Two major recent World Bank agricultural summits in Mauritania and Senegal recently urged African countries and communities in the Sahel...
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Building capacity for better conservation and use of Africa’s animal genetic...
Jeremy Ouedraogo, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, Burkina Faso By Diana Brandes-van Dorresteijn Jeremy Ouedraogo, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries in Burkina Faso,...
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