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Documentos de política y resúmenes
Diciembre 1998

About 14 % of the world's cattle and 21 % of its sheep and goats are found in Africa on a land base that comprises 25 % of the world's total area of rangelands. Most of these rangelands are or have in the past been managed under traditional systems of communal tenure.

Documentos de conferencias e informes
Diciembre 1998

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) began operations in 1995 with the consolidation of two Consultative Group on International Research (CGIAR) - sponsored livestock research centres: the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), in Kenya, and the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), in Ethiopia.

Documentos de conferencias e informes
Diciembre 1998

The main objective of ILRI's Sustainable Production Systems Programme is to improve human welfare through the development of more productive and Sustainable crop-livestock sytems in developing countries. The programmes' focus is on market-oriented smallholder crop-livestock systems.

Documentos de conferencias e informes
Diciembre 1998

Poor nutrition because of poor quality feeds and fluctuating feed supply is a major constraint to tropical livestock productivity. The need to supply greater quantities of quality fodder requires development of both new forages and feeding strategies that will enhance the efficiency with which conventional on-farm feed resources are used.

Artículos de revistas y libros
Diciembre 1998

This document lists and summarises studies by ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) and its predecessors, ILCA (International Livestock Centre for Africa) and ILRAD (International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases), on the adoption and impact of their research output. It will be updated regularly as old activities are completed and new ones are started.

Recursos y herramientas de capacitación
Diciembre 1998

This training manual emphasises an integrated approach to research on small ruminants. Eleven modules cover the topics in an integrated approach to improving small ruminant productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. It starts with describing small ruminants in various agro-ecological zones in sub-Saharan Africa with emphasis on the prevailing production systems.

Informes e investigaciones
Diciembre 1998
Kenya

A study on factors affecting honey production and indigenous knowledge of the Kibwezi Communities
in honey production was conducted using formal and informal interviews by questionnaires between January and
Sepicmber, 199). Honey plants were determined using pollen analysis, field observation and indigenous

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