Most rural households across Nigeria keep chickens. The birds provide even the poorest families with both much-needed cash income and nourishing food. But these millions of rural smallholder and ...

The National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), ...

GLF Africa 2026: Stewarding Our Rangelands brings together policymakers, researchers, practitioners and pastoral communities to spotlight one of the continent’s most vital yet under-recognized ...

Since 2023, ILRI’s bundled forage interventions have benefited 50,000 farmers, advancing livestock productivity and building climate resilience across five regions in Ethiopia. For many years, ...

Alemayehu, A., Girma, M., Geremew, K. and Esatu, W. 2026. Performance testing of ILRI-developed chicken lines in Ethiopia. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

highlighted instances where projected yields were unrealistic – often too high for cattle, pigs, and poultry – but they also confirmed that several parameters aligned well with observed or expected ...

Gebreyes, M., Desta, G. and Mesfin, T. 2025. Progress Report: Ethiopia’s Partnership for Accelerating Agricultural Solutions Scaling (PAASS). Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

Rangelands occupy 54 % of the global terrestrial surface and they are used by around 500 million pastoralists. They provide globally important ecosystem services, including food production, climate ...

The CGIAR Scaling Fund is a strategic financing and technical support mechanism designed to bridge the gap between innovation development and impact at scale by combining flexible funding with ...

Nkambule, S., Omulo, S., Baraka, V., Mware, B., Nsawotebba, A., Mulenga, C.S.A., Mabasa, V.V., Truyens, C.S. and Holm, R.H. 2026. Advancing ethical wastewater and ...

This info brief re-conceptualizes Living Labs within the CGIAR by examining the implementation of a Living Lab for People (LL4P) in Nandi County, Kenya. Drawing on a multi-year, participatory case ...

The paperreviews information on the White Fulani cattle under the headings; origin, classification, distribution, population statistics, ecological settings, utility, husbandry practices, physical ...