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The Road to Ending Malnutrition: How the Paris N4G Summit Sparked a Global Call to Action
17.04.25The Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit brought global leaders and organizations together in a…
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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Science Week 2025 is Now
07.04.25The inaugural CGIAR Science Week gets underway in Nairobi, Kenya. From 7 to 12 April,…
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Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs
14.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa swine fever, which recently appeared in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, northeastern Chi…
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Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great…
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When ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’
07.08.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pas…
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One-size-fits-all ‘livestock less’ measures will not serve some one billion smallholder livestock farmers and herders
02.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder dairying in Kenya (photo credit: Accelerated Value Chain Development/Sophie Mbugua). ‘…
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Enhancing global livestock advocacy for sustainable development
02.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Some of the work going on at an end-of-project GLAD workshop held last week at…
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Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda
25.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock is the world’s fastest-growing, highest-value agricultural subsector, accounting for abo…
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DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
Since their introduction to Africa thousands of years ago from the Middle East and the…
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Sustained progress made in global work to reduce the rise of antimicrobial resistance—but major gaps remain
19.07.18-
Food security
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Health
Training on standardized and harmonized surveillance methods for antimicrobial resistance in food an…
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Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa
17.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Livestock contribute greatly to livelihoods and food security in Africa, yet they are both vulnerabl…
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Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe
13.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Most rural people in Zimbabwe depend on crop–livestock farming, growing cereals and legumes, and r…
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Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia
11.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock play a crucial role in national development in Ethiopia, accounting for 40% of agricultura…
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Livestock’s potential in Tanzania is ‘huge’—keynote by ILRI’s Iain Wright at the National Livestock Expo
10.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI deputy director general Iain Wright gave a keynote speech at Tanzania’s first National Livest…
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Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India
09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…
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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam
06.07.18-
Food security
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Health
The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
04.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Women play critical roles in the small-scale livestock systems that remain ubiquitous in the develop…
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The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
29.06.18-
Gender equality
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s…
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ILRI Corporate report 2016–2017 now available: Investing in sustainable development
28.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rwandan women selling eggs to people visiting the Kimironko market in the country capital city,…
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