Tags: environment

ILRI News on environment

27 Jun 2024

Searching for easy indicators for degraded tropical pastureland soils

Measuring soil resistance/compaction and infiltration rates (photo: Kristen Tam/ILRI). Habtamu Sibilu sets a dynamic cone penetrometer upright on a flat patch of grass. He lifts up the weight, drops it, and records how many centimetres into the soil the penetrometer penetrates. After doing this as...

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Mazingira blog

01 Aug 2023

Empowering African Climate Monitoring: A Recap of the TAHMO Training Workshop at ILRI’s Mazingira Centre

On 24 th July 2023, ILRI’s Mazingira Centre hosted a training workshop on the use, maintenance, and diagnostics of weather stations by TAHMO (Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory). The workshop aimed to strengthen the capacity of local technicians, students, and researchers to effectively...

Sonja LeitnerScientist

ILRI News

14 Nov 2022

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on bringing science-based nuance and clarity to today’s polarized livestock debates

In the face of increasingly polarized discourse about the place of livestock in sustainable food systems, Jimmy Smith , director general of the CGIAR 's International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), delivered a keynote presentation at this year’s TropAg conference in Brisbane (31 Oct–2 Nov...

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Publications on environment

Journal Article

Published2015

The social distribution of provisioning forest ecosystem services: Evidence and insights from Odisha, India

Journal Article

Published2021

Impact of heat stress on poultry production

Journal Article

Published2020

Impact of methane emission and associated environmental stress on livestock production systems in India

News Item

Published2019

A novel way of treating crop residues may yield a host of benefits for farmers, local economies, and the broader environment

Journal Article

Published2017

Stakeholders’ perceptions of integrated rainwater management approaches in the Blue Nile Basin of the Ethiopian highlands

Book Chapter

Published2016

Rift Valley fever and the changing environment: A case study in East Africa

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ILRI Projects on environment

Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP)

Objectives Within the KCSAP project, ILRI Mazingira aims to develop survey methods to reliably estimate GHG emission indicators and achieve the following objectives: Generate baseline estimates of GHG emission indicators (i.e. GHG emission intensities) for KCSAP Evaluate the effect(s) of TIMPs...

Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP)

Mar 2022Feb 2025

CircAgric-GHG

Approach CircAgric-GHG will draw upon state-of-the-art knowledge, research methods and models to assess how circular practices can deliver sustainable food systems Using farm typologies as a baseline, the extent of existing circular practice implementation will be evaluated Promising practices to...

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