Just in case you missed recent announcements, here is a selection of reports on our International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) activities in Asia.
Petra Saghir and Jemimah Njuki of the Poverty, Gender and Impact team take a closer look at the role of women in agriculture as they attend, and present at the recent First Global Conference on Women in Agriculture, held in New Delhi.
As farm plots and areas of common grazing continue to contract in India, Jerome Bossuet reports on the rising importance of dual-purpose crop breeding, and how lessons learned are being shared with researchers in Africa.
As part of the Enhancing Livelihoods through Livestock Knowledge Systems project, project coordinator Padmakumar recently held a stakeholder workshop in the Indian province of Uttarakhand to gain greater insight into ways to best improve goat enterprises among the local hill communities.
Reflecting back upon the collaborative work of ILRI and our national partners in Nepal, Susan MacMillan reports back on why Straw Matters in the goat-holder dominated areas of Nepal.
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