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Category Archives: South Asia

Unravelling value chains through participatory modelling: part 2

Posted on Wednesday 3 July 2019 by Judy Kimani • Leave a comment

The MINI project is investigating how to increase the availability of fruits and vegetables in nutritionally vulnerable markets in Bihar, India. The barriers to this goal are numerous, ranging from the inferior prices offered to farmers in smaller markets, to the typically weaker purchasing power of rural consumers. Continue reading →

Africa / CCAFS / Climate Change / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / PIL / policy / Report / South Asia / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / West Africa

National livestock sector policies and planning under a changing global economy

Posted on Wednesday 12 June 2019 by Judy Kimani • Leave a comment

The production and demand of livestock derived foods (LDFs) could change substantially in the future in many LMICs following major changes in global economic and climate conditions. A recent report assesses a standard global model’s projections of livestock production and the demand for LDFs in Ethiopia, Niger, Rwanda, Cambodia, Nepal and Burkina Faso in 2050. Continue reading →

Asia / Bangladesh / Dairying / Gender / Livestock / PIL / South Asia

Can dairy value-chain projects change gender norms in rural Bangladesh?

Posted on Thursday 6 March 2014 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

Value-chain projects are increasingly being used to link smallholders to markets. However, in contexts where women tend to own and control fewer assets than men, and are more likely to be involved in informal rather than formal market activities, there is potential for value-chain projects to have unintended consequences on gender dynamics. Using both quantitative … Continue reading →

Asia / Dairying / Gender / India / LIVESTOCK-FISH / PIL / PIM / South Asia / Value Chains / Women

Impacts of value chain development on smallholder women dairy farmers in India

Posted on Friday 11 October 2013 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • 2 Comments

In the run up to the Livestock and Fish gender working group meeting in Addis Ababa in October 2013, ILRI agro-economist Jo Cadilhon shares some ideas on the importance of gender in value chain development. I have finally realized the importance of incorporating gender into my research on value chain development. From a development perspective, … Continue reading →

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Analysing Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) data to identify pathways towards food security
ILRI at the Committee on World Food Security
The view from New York
ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
New study explores the role of livestock products for nutrition in the first 1000 days of life
ILC Rangelands Initiative partners draw attention to rangelands at the UNCCD COP
Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research
FAO conference on global hunger to launch

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Latest ILRI outputs

Elucidating linkages between women’s empowerment in livestock and nutrition: A qualitative study Monday 23 April 2018
Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants (ECo-PPR) inception workshop for West Africa Sunday 15 September 2019
A contextual analysis for village land use planning in Tanzania’s Bagamoyo and Chalinze districts, Pwani region and Mvomero and Kilosa districts, Morogoro region Tuesday 30 July 2019