Category Archives: Food Security

Capacity Development / Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / Ethiopia / Food Security / ILRI / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Partnership / Tanzania / Value Chains

Capacity development for sustainable food security: Role of public private partnerships

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Improving value chains performance is high on the agenda of Livestock and Fish country value chain programs. Public-private partnerships can identify stakeholders with a significant interest in value chain programing, allowing for mutual trust building and understanding to accommodate different roles, responsibilities, interests, joint design and co-delivery of research for development work. Continue reading →

CGIAR / Food Security / ILRI / ILRI40 / Livestock / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Nutrition

Refocusing livestock agricultural research for development to address food and nutritional security challenges

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This week, Livestock and Fish program director Tom Randolph was part of a panel at the ILRI@40 Tropentag 2014 session on ‘Livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security and healthy lives.’ Randolph highlighted the focus of ILRI’s – and ILCA and ILRAD before it – research to benefit poor livestock-keeping households for poverty reduction. … Continue reading →