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ILCA's monitoring activities in Kenya: Report to the Government of Kenya
Describes the monitoring Programme carried out by ILCA covering phase II of the Kenya Livestock Development Project, and the six components included. Also describes a two-tiered monitoring system consisting of intensive studies of carefully selected samples and an extensive data collection network concentrating on key indicators. Discusses initial results from the Kenya monitoring Programme.
ILRI annual report 2006: Safeguarding livestock diversity - The time is now
ILRAD 1993/94 annual report
This report at first presents summary of a talk given at ILRAD. Following this, it discusses tickborne diseases particularly epidemiology and biology, parasite antigens with vaccine, vaccine development etc. The report also reviews trypanosomiasis and topics covered within parasite-host interaction, anemia and others. In addition, socioeconomics and environmental impact, cooperative programs, training and information, research support, etc are outlined in the report.
Impact of human activities and livestock on the African environment: An attempt to partition the pressure
The impact of human endeavours on the environment in the struggle to eke out a living through crop and animal agriculture is examined in a holistic context. Analyses focus on all the sources of pressure that modify the vegetation cover of rural Africa, including the effects of fires and burning of biomass, fuel wood extraction and deforestation and land clearing.
ILRI Corporate Report 2009-2010. Back to the Future: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems
This corporate report looks ‘back to the future’—to the thousand million farmers practicing small-scale mixed crop-and-livestock agriculture in poor countries—the kind of seemingly old-fashioned family farming systems that have become so fashionable in recent years among those wanting to reform the industrial food systems of rich countries.
ILRI 1999. Making the livestock revolution work for the poor
This annual report takes as its theme the central challenge facing the institute and its partners at the start of the new millennium: making the livestock revolution work for the poor. It is a companion report to the institutes new strategic plan, which takes the revolution as its basis in determining how ILRI's programme should evolve in the first decade of the 21st century. The report begins and ends on a farm in central Ethiopia, whose mixed crop-livestock producers are just beginning to participate in the expanding dairy market of the country's capital, Addis Ababa.