Fodder fact sheets for Ethiopia
The Fodder Adoption Project has recently published Fodder Fact Sheets for Ethiopia in English, Amharic and Oromiffa
View ArticleBiomass production, chronosequence and vegetation indexes: Outputs of...
SLP has been strengthening links with different academic institutions. The result of these links has been a small set of internships, BSc or MSc thesis with various universities. Research topics are...
View ArticleCompeting uses, dynamics, and production and utilization constraints of crop...
Kindu Mekonnen, SLP associate researcher of the East Africa team writes: “Biomass is a crucial resource for smallholder farmers. Crop residues form an important source of biomass but there are...
View ArticleSLP releases database on nutritive value of feeds in Sub-Saharan Africa
SLP has now formally released the sub-Saharan Africa Feeds database – a user friendly searchable database containing information on the nutritive values of 20,913 samples of 566 of the major feeds used...
View ArticleIntensification of crop-livestock farming systems in East Africa: A...
SLP East Africa team continues presenting preliminary results of the project on crop residue trade-offs. This time Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI-Ethiopia) will present a poster at the CIALCA International...
View ArticleRe-valuating the value of livestock in Ethiopia: production, livelihoods and...
Last couple of years the Livestock Policy Initiative of IGAD (IGAD-LPI) in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Ethiopia (MoFED), has revisited estimates of livestock’s...
View ArticleILRI looking for a coordinator for Africa RISING
AFRICA RISING Program (Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation) is part of the Feed the Future Initiative of USAID. This initiative is funding three projects in West...
View ArticleSLP Crop residue project: discussing with farmers and other stakeholders
“The ‘Second Phase’ of the SLP crop residue project has begun in Ethiopia and Bangladesh and will continue in Zimbabwe and Niger shortly. In this phase of the project, a participatory and collaborative...
View ArticleImplementation of Feed the Future livestock project in Ethiopia: USAID and CNFA
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded CNFA (a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating economic growth and improving rural livelihoods by...
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