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Jimmy Smith speaks in Australia on the pursuit of a ‘low-emissions cow’ and...

ILRI director general Jimmy Smith at #TropAg2017. Visiting Brisbane in November for the International Tropical Agriculture Conference for 2017, Director General of the International Livestock Research...

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DFID/UKAid fund British, ILRI, African genetics research to advance African...

ILRI geneticist Olivier Hanotte carries out work on chicken samples in Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). ‘. . . International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt announced the...

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​’If you care about agriculture, you care about livestock’—Bill Gates

​ The Cow with the Subtile Nose, by Jean Dubuffet, 1954. ‘. . . According to Reuters, the Gates Foundation will pump $40m into research for higher-yielding dairy cows, as well as chickens that lay...

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Researchers join artist in quest to create the perfect chicken for Ethiopia’s...

Chickens in the new facility (photo credit: Camille Hanotte). Researchers in Ethiopia are embarking on a quest to create the perfect chicken for African farmers with an unlikely ally—a Belgian...

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Ethiopian native chickens are bred with Belgian ‘cosmopolitan chicken’ for...

An Ethiopian chicken being sampled by ILRI scientists (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). ‘The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Flemish conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen joined...

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‘INCUBATED WORLDS’: Highlights of a unique art+poultry facility launched in...

'INCUBATED WORLDS'—unique art+poultry facility—launched in Addis   Read an article at Thomson Reuters Foundation: Art and science marry in Ethiopia’s quest for the perfect chicken, 26 Apr 2018. Read...

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Accelerating the development of agricultural value chains in Kenya—AVCD...

Accelerating Value Chain Development in Kenya Conference: Highlights Read more about AVCD here and here, about the Livestock Value Chain component of AVCD here, and about the KAZNET crowd-sourced data...

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Scottish gene-edited chickens produced to help stop bird flu

Gallo, 1977, by Aldemir Martins (via Wikiart). ‘Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do happen. In fact, scientists are so...

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Selective breeding manuals reveal best practices for small ruminant productivity

Two new manuals have been developed for livestock practitioners and development partners seeking to boost livestock productivity in pastoral communities through improved herd management. These modules...

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‘Genomic time travel’ for better African cattle—New paper describes a ‘rich...

Scientists from ILRI,Korea and other partners have discovereda new set of genetic markersin African cattle that signalbeneficial characteristics,with a view to harnessing themfor future generations....

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