legumes

ILRI News on legumes

In a 17 June 2022 interview with Field, Lab, Earth, the American Society of Agronomy podcast, Peter Thorne, a crop-livestock systems researcher at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), talks about a recent study by the Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands project that compares farmers...

Haimanot Seifu

Africa RISING feed

15 Jun 2021

Public and Private Partnerships improve smallholder farmer fortunes in Babati, Tanzania

Written by Michael Kinyua, Inot Songoyani and Prosper Massawe (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT) A farmer in Tanzania harvests maize. The beans which was intercropped with the maize will also be ready for harvest soon (photo credit: Georgina Smith/CIAT). Babati, a district in northern Tanzania, thrives on...

Africa RISING communications

ILRI News

13 Dec 2019

A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development

Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). The board, directors and staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) mourn the passing of a former colleague and...