Happy New Year! 20 top posts on ILRI News Blog in 2013

Goat shelter by night

Improved goat shelter (illustration by ILRI/Birgit Boogaard).

Thanks for your readership of, and participation in, ILRI’s News Blog in 2013. Before jumping full tilt into 2014, you might want to check out these top posts in 2013 you might have missed.

A Happy New Year to you all!
May 2014 bring you peace, prosperity and joy.

20 top ILRI News Blog posts

LIVESTOCK FEEDS

29 Dec: Further unlocking the potential of maize: Dual-purpose is the new purpose of the world’s most important cereal

LIVESTOCK AND THE ENVIRONMENT

17 Dec: As livestock eat, so they emit: Highly variable diets drive highly variable climate change ‘hoofprints’–BIG new study

30 Sep: Improving the environmental sustainability of livestock systems in the developing world–ILRI’s Jimmy Smith

LIVESTOCK GOODS AND BADS

17 Sep: Why tackling partial truths about livestock matters so much: Keynote address at International Grasslands Congress, Part 2

16 Sep: Why the world’s small-scale livestock farms matter so much: Keynote address at International Grasslands Congress, Part 1

04 Apr: Livestock ‘goods’ and ‘bads’: What are the published facts?

03 Apr: Livestock, poverty and the environment: A balancing act–and a balanced account

LIVESTOCK AND FOOD SECURITY

17 Oct: ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on global health and food security: Why developing-country livestock matter so much

LIVESTOCK AND FOOD SAFETY

16 Oct: ‘The health of the poor is the wealth of the poor’: A little film for a big World Food Day and World Food Prize

GLOBAL ALLIANCES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION

15 Oct: The IPCC of the livestock sector? Global Agenda of Action on building a sustainable livestock sector

17 Jun: Working together for viable livestock futures: Stakeholders at the Global Agenda of Action speak out

ILRI AND THE GLOBAL LIVESTOCK AGENDA

18 Jun: Jimmy Smith on the global development agenda, and livestock’s role in it — 13-minute film

12 Jun: Launching ILRI’s new long-term strategy for livestock research for development–15-minute film

31 May: Three presentations on livestock for–and in–development by ILRI director general Jimmy Smith

23 Jan: Taking the long livestock view

LIVESTOCK OPPORTUNITIES IN (FOR) AFRICA

27 Jun: Livestock present Africa with huge – ‘right now!’ – opportunities for food, prosperity, environment

LIVESTOCK VALUE CHAINS IN POOR COUNTRIES

21 Jun: More meat, milk and fish — Big interventions for ‘farm-to-table’ livestock value chains in poor countries

LIVESTOCK AND GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH

17 May: Dialing back on the drivers of global disease outbreaks: A look inside the ‘black box’

LIVESTOCK DISEASE IN AFRICA

01 May: New advances in the battle against a major disease threat to cattle and people in Africa

LIVESTOCK AND SOCIAL LEARNING

30 Mar: Cultivate the future! How learning together can mean learning better and faster–speeding research into use

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