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CGIAR Humid Tropics research program plans for the Greater Mekong Region
The Greater Mekong Region is currently experiencing social and environmental change quicker than almost anywhere else in the world. Spanning south from Yunnan in South China through Cambodia, Lao...
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Beyond the (agricultural) field of vision: Situational analysis in northwest...
The highly sloped landscape of upland northwest Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Jo Cadilhon). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in collaboration with CGIAR and national partners, and...
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Two ILRI positions in Asia (‘Returning Experts Programme’)
The ‘Returning Experts Programme’, implemented by the Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ),...
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New partnership platform for better impact on poverty in northwest Vietnam
This article was originally written by Mai Thanh Tu for the Humidtropics blog. Reposted here with permission. Northwest Vietnam is a mountainous area bordering China to the north and Lao PDR to the...
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Innovation platforms practice briefs published in Chinese, Hindi and...
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. To help document recent experiences and insights, the International Livestock...
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Bringing home the bacon, a Vietnamese native pig-farming success story
Meet Mr Duc, a native pig farmer/entrepreneur from Dak Lak, Vietnam who earned VND 900 million (around USD 40,000) for 2015 alone through improved production practices and innovative marketing...
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Piloting a blended learning course for facilitators and organizers of...
Between 9 and 11 November 2015, the second Humidtropics Capacity Development Workshop in the Central Mekong Region on research for development (R4D) platforms was organised by ILRI, ICRAF, Wageningen...
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A preliminary viability assessment of beef cattle value chains in the Central...
In Vietnam, meat consumption is dominated by pork (around 70% of the meat market share) followed by poultry and beef. Population growth, a booming tourism industry, rising incomes and changing consumer...
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New report identifies interventions to improve crop-livestock value chains in...
The landscape of Son La province, an ILRI–Humidtropics project site (photo credit: VNUA/Ninh Xuan Trung). A new report that explains how mixed (crop and livestock) farmers in Vietnam can raise their...
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Applying participatory approaches to solve agricultural problems: A blended...
Iddo Dror, ILRI’s head of capacity development, facilitates a session on innovation platforms during the first day of the workshop (photo credit: SEARCA). What is an innovation platform (IP)? How is...
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New report on economic potential of avocado, beef, pepper and cassava value...
Beef cattle herd in Dak Lak, Vietnam (photo via Flickr/Ratclima) The work of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Vietnam has become synonymous with pigs, since ILRI scientists...
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