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This Initiative aims to develop and scale agroecological innovations with small-scale farmers and other agricultural and food system actors across different socio-ecological contexts in seven low- and middle-income...

A new research study in Frontiers in Veterinary Science (Sept 2023) has addressed knowledge gaps in the biomass, productivity and value of livestock for the pastoral, mixed crop-livestock and specialized...

Food safety is critical but poorly addressed in African countries. A food safety training and certification intervention piloted in Kenya, India, Tanzania and Nigeria was scaled and...

In order to provide internal agro-economic modellers with a shared reference data source, the JRC and DG AGRI agreed in 2017 to construct a dataset to provide an approximation of the apparent use...

Welcome to MoreMilk, a pioneering project led by the International Research Institute and its partners. Our project has been dedicated to transforming the informal milk sector, empowering...

Highlights Dairy is rich in a range of nutrients and hypothesized to improve child growth. Dairy consumption is typically low in countries with high stunting prevalence. First study to...

Highlights: Artificial insemination and deworming services were the most utilized dairy technologies. Majority of smallholder farmers were using more than three dairy technologies...

FAO’s latest forecasts point to increases in production and higher stocks across several basic foodstuffs. However, global food production systems remain vulnerable to shocks...

AIM: To propose a technico-economic model for assessing the profitability of a dairy camel farm. THE MODEL: The assessment of profitability in a farm is depending on the demographic changes, on the charges and on the products. The demography of...

Highlights Dairy is the imperative activity for life of dairy farmers and cross-breed dairy cow adoption has been increasing in the study area. Women are often constrained...