ILRI communications and knowledge management
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Item Can artificial intelligence and space technology transform livestock insurance and rangeland management?(Blog Post, 2024-11-24) Onyango, Polycarp Otieno; Paliwal, AmbicaA new study shows that artificial intelligence (AI) could improve the accuracy of index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) satellite assessments in regions affected by invasive plant species. IBLI provides coverage for livestock keepers against drought, with payouts triggered when a specific region reaches a predetermined drought threshold. This threshold is calculated based on vegetation and forage scarcity, which is monitored using satellite imagery. Whereas traditional field surveys are effective for assessing forage conditions, they are often time-consuming and costly. As a result, there has been a significant shift towards using satellite remote sensing to monitor vegetation and forage conditions more efficiently. However, invasive plants species which are resistant to drought and which outcompete local plants can make monitoring less clear.Item REGIONAL STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT PLANNING: An Implementation Roadmap for Eastern and Southern Africa(Report, 2024-12) Jalango, Dorcas Anyango; Yaregal, Yodit; Tesfaye, Lidya Ayalew; Ogutu, Elizabeth; Makonnen, BrookThis report, Implementation of Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plans: A Roadmap for Eastern and Southern Africa, provides a strategic framework to operationalize Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plans (CSAIPs) in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Zambia. The report identifies key implementation barriers, including financial constraints, fragmented coordination, and inadequate capacity, while offering phased solutions to address these challenges. The roadmap emphasizes resource mobilization through blended finance, private sector engagement, capacity building, and policy alignment to foster sustainable CSA adoption. It highlights the importance of multi-stakeholder platforms and regional collaboration to harmonize strategies and scale efforts across the continent.Item Knowledge management for projects: A case study of the Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa (COHESA) project(Presentation, 2024-07) Wairagala, PamelaItem Joint Press Statement of the CGIAR and CAADP-XP4 Partners: African Research and Innovation Partners Synergize to Accelerate Agricultural Knowledge Scaling(Press Item, 2024-12-17) Abugri, Benjamin; Victor, MichaelAddis Ababa, Ethiopia — December 13, 2024 — The CGIAR and CAADP-XP4 Partners successfully concluded the "Second Workshop to Operationalize the African Agricultural DSpace Repository" at the ILRI Campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This three-day event, held from December 11 to 13, brought together Knowledge Management Officers, IT and web developers from CAADP-XP4 Partners (FARA, CCARDESA, AFAAS, CORAF, and ASARECA) alongside CGIAR experts led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The workshop reinforced partnerships and took concrete steps toward advancing the African Agricultural Research Information and Innovation Space (AARIISpace).Item Knowledge Management Partnership framework for AR4D in Africa(Report, 2024-12-13) Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa ; International Livestock Research InstituteItem The Launch of Ethiopia’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan: From Strategy to Implementation(Brief, 2024-07) Jalango, Dorcas; Tesfaye, Lidya; Yemane, Melat; Makonnen, Brook TKey messages - Align climate actions with strategic investments and private-sector engagement for widespread impact - Strengthen Ethiopia’s Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Forum through broader membership, coordination and policy alignment - Tailor investments in the CSAIP to ensure benefits reach farmers and communitiesItem Methane Solutions for African Livestock Systems: Mazingira Research Highlighted at the Climate and Clean Air Conference 2024(Blog Post, 2024-11-18) Spinelli, MadisonA news post on Claudia Arndt's and Mazingira Centre's engagement at the Climate and Clean Air Coalition 2024.Item Can Kenya meet dairy production and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets by 2030?(Blog Post, 2024-09-23) Oduor, Richard; Slater, Annabel; Arndt, Claudia; Graham, MichaelKenya, like many African nations, faces the challenge of increasing dairy production to meet future demand while also reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as population growth and dietary preferences shift towards greater consumption of animal products. While livestock production is a significant source of GHG emissions, it is also fundamental to achieving several other Sustainable Development Goals, including ending poverty, combating hunger and ensuring food security, promoting good health and well-being, and supporting decent work and economic growth. Efficient livestock production systems need to be identified to meet this challenge. However, there is a lack of local data on livestock productivity and GHG emissions, as well as knowledge on the effect of locally appropriate interventions on livestock productivity and GHG emissions.Item Policy and institutional landscape analysis in Kenya's food, land and water systems(Blog Post, 2024-10-16) Kimani, Judy; Karugia, Joseph T.Item Enhancing public health: Five key takeaways on zoonotic disease and antimicrobial resistance surveillance(Brief, 2024-09-30) Bett, Bernard K.; Fèvre, Eric M.; Ha Thi Thanh Nguyen; Sinh Dang-Xuan; Obuta, Amos; Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Patel, EktaThe need for integrated and efficient surveillance systems is important given the increasing risks of zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance. These systems must account for the complex interactions at the interfaces of the environment, livestock, wildlife, humans, as well as disease dynamics, including the cross-species and regional movement of pathogens. Effective surveillance requires strong collaboration between governments, research institutions, and communities to ensure timely and accurate monitoring and response can be implemented. By employing scientific tools and approaches — such as risk mapping, watershed pollution monitoring and modelling, monitoring interfaces of the wildlife-livestock ecosystem for pathogens and resistant genes, screening at risk humans and animals as well as genomic surveillance — CGIAR aims to improve disease prevention and control, safeguarding both public health and biodiversity in vulnerable regions. This knowledge brief highlights five key takeaway messages on the integrated surveillance approach.Item CGSpace - a multi-purpose knowledge publishing platform(Presentation, 2024-09-18) Ballantyne, Peter G.Item Eating wild animals: Rewards, risks and recommendations(Report, 2024-09-20) Grace, Delia; Bett, Bernard K.; Cook, Elizabeth A.J.; Lam, Steven; MacMillan, Susan; Masudi, Phyllis; Mispiratceguy, M.; Ha Thi Thanh Nguyen; Hung Nguyen-Viet; Patel, Ekta; Slater, Annabel; Staal, Steven J.; Thomas, Lian F.During the COVID-19 pandemic, prominent calls were made in the Global North to end the hunting, selling and eating of meat from wild animals. This report is a partial response to such calls, arguing that such a ban would be both impossible and arguably immoral to enforce due to the benefits wild meat provides for many millions of mostly poor communities. It also acknowledges the risks inherent in eating wild meat and recommends reshaping the wild meat trade in ways that 1) ensure it is sustainable and fair to poor and under-nourished populations of the Global South; 2) do not harm biodiversity or put endangered species at increased risk; 3) are safer for human, animal and environment health; and 4) are more humane. The importance of meat from wild animals to human diets has long been studied as has the human health risks from consuming it. Based on literature reviews, this report seeks to understand wild meat consumption by people and the value chains that supply it—including hunting, harvesting, marketing and consumption—and the implications of consuming wild meat for both human nutrition and zoonotic risks in Africa and East and Southeast Asia regions where wildlife is an abundant especially abundant renewable resource and widely consumed and where ILRI has been researching use of wild meat for many decades. The report synthesizes the available evidence on wild meat and recommends practices and research priorities to mitigate the biodiversity conservation and zoonotic risks related to its consumption, particularly for use by organizations working in the health, veterinary, environment and wildlife sectors.Item Multi-Country Livestock Investor Landscape Study(Presentation, 2024-09-04) Girvetz, Kristin Grote; Victor, MichaelItem Rethinking Livestock Systems: Embracing Multifunctionality for a Sustainable Future(Blog Post, 2024-09-06) Spinelli, MadisonA news post about the conference titled, “Multifunctionality of Livestock Grazing Systems: A Lever to Envision Its Possible Futures”, held on 19 April 2024 in Montpellier, France.Item What does it take to scale an agricultural innovation? Loraine Ronchi talks with Agnes Kalibata(Blog Post, 2024-05-06) Wong, MadelineThis blog post is about the week-long discussions and activities included a conversation on agricultural scaling between Loraine Ronchi, a Canadian economist, World Bank secondee, and CGIAR senior policy advisor, and Agnes Kalibata, a renowned African agricultural scientist, policymaker, and global leader internationally recognized in the arena of food systems transformation.Item Knowledge Management for Agriculture in Africa: Past, Present and Future(Presentation, 2024-07-29) Ballantyne, Peter G.Item Leveraging AI and digital technologies to transform ILRI’s research and operations(Presentation, 2024-05-12) Dhulipala, Ram; Paliwal, Ambica; Bett, Bernard K.; Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka; Ojango, Julie M.K.; Gerba, Michael; Victor, MichaelItem Integrating environmental and ecosystem health into One Health - choices, contexts and communities matter(Blog Post, 2024-03) Wairagala, Pamela N.; Ballantyne, Peter G.; Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.; Caron, AlexandreItem Global villain, local savior? What's the role of livestock in sub-Saharan Africa?(Blog Post, 2024-06-28) Slater, AnnabelThe livestock question is both complex and highly polarized, said Tara Garnett, the director of TABLE—a collaboration between six universities that looks at debates in and around the future of food. She was introducing a panel discussion on 28 March 2024 titled ‘Global villain, local savior? What’s the role of livestock in sub-Saharan Africa?’Item Informal Peer Review at the heart of the Livestock and Climate Initiative's Occasional Feeds Conversations(Blog Post, 2024-06-18) Spinelli, Madison; Duncan, Alan J.Discussion on how informal peer review is at the center of the CGIARResearch Initiative on Livestock and Climate's Feed and Forage work.