In recent years, Livestock and Fish program partner WorldFish works with CARE – a leading humanitarian organization – on projects to improve livelihoods in developing countries. This collaboration includes work in Egypt and Bangladesh (with the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems). In Egypt, linked with the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish, … Continue reading
Last month, the Tanzania Dairy Board (TDB), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Heifer Project International (HPI), SNV – The Netherlands Development Organisation, Land O’Lakes, Inc., and the Tanzania Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development (MLDF) organized a national dairy stakeholders’ meeting to present the Dairy Development Forum (DDF). The DDF … Continue reading
On Saturday 27 October 2012, the Livestock and Fish Program organized a pre-conference session on ‘Mobilizing AR4D partnerships to improve access to critical animal-source foods’ at the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD). Twenty-five people including invited resource persons and the directors general of three of the CGIAR centers involved in the … Continue reading
Next week the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) will be held in Uruguay. On 27 October, the Livestock and Fish research program hosts a pre-conference session on ‘Mobilizing AR4D partnerships to improve access to critical animal-source foods.’ Read a report of the meeting. Animal-source foods, for and by the poor Farmed … Continue reading
The Livestock and Fish program has ambitious goals – to transform selected whole value chains to benefit poor producers and consumers. It is integrating technological, institutional, market and value chain interventions to accelerate pro-poor livestock and aquaculture development and achieve impact at scale. Effective partnerships with development actors are critical to the success of this … Continue reading
On 15 October 2012, Stuart Worsley took up his appointment as head of development partnership for the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish. This is a new position that we hope will help us achieve the ‘impact at scale’ objective set by the Program. He will work closely with other component leaders, value chain … Continue reading
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