As drought intensifies, Phoenix and her pack face a mortal battle with a hyena clan. Kuleta is forced into a deadly dangerous lion country. A downpour refills the river in Samburu and the elephants return but it’s a brief reprieve as the drought bites even harder #ChasingTheRains
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Rupsha R Banerjee
@rafiki80
Institutions and Innovation for scale
#financialinclusion #rural development #innovation systems #markets #agriculture development #drylands
Nairobi, KenyaJoined December 2009
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Help tackle drought and food security ‘#earlywarning to #earlyaction’ gaps in the Horn of Africa. Join us and to devise ways to better connect Early Warning Systems with pastoral and agro-pastoral communities #data #anticipatoryaction jameelobservatory.org/data-collabora
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Check this out!
Today is Day 1 of 2023 Feed the Future Innovation Labs Regional Partners Meeting! 🚀
Our leaders Geoff Dahl and Saskia Hendrickx are sharing the groundbreaking work of our Lab. 🐮
Stay tuned for more updates!
#ResearchforClimateChange #FTFInnovationLabs
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Deputy Director Mr. Kennedy Thiong'o this morning received new server equipment from ILRI. The department has been collaborating with to implement the project whose objective is to develop tailored climate information and services and digital
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delivering a presentation titled proposed evidence support to the food systems resilience program at the FSRP for Ethiopia consultation meeting. Organized by Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture #foodsystemsresilience
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Africa Climate Summit:
CS Tuya unveils secretariat to steer upcoming summit in Nairobi
Tuya: The conference will host over 10,000 delegates
#CitizenBriefs
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Kicking off important conversations on early action to address food insecurity at the Community of Practice annual convening. #earlyaction #anticipatoryaction
Looking forward to taking stock of progress & future planning
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‘Cloud coffee’ is served with a cloud of cotton candy over the cup. Steam rises from the coffee, it causes the cloud to dissolve and sugar rains over the cup. How innovative!
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Covid-19 global health emergency is over, more than three years after being declared, World Health Organization says
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Our Executive Director spoke at the partners event alongside other leaders from , & about how hyperlocal data, including weather data, can be used to improve farmer productivity & profitability
#WhyWeatherMatters!
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What do we know about #gender & agricultural insurance?
* few products are designed to reach & benefit ♀️
* few studies focus on empowerment or transformational effects
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India described in 3.18 minutes....it takes a liftetime to cover the beauty and experience the diversity that is the subcontinent :)
Check out a letter from the Director General of #ILRI , highlighting the institute's achievements and priorities in tackling global #foodsecurity challenges: ilri.org/news/letter-di
#foodsecurity #globaldevelopment #agriculture #ILRI
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The East Coast fever (ECF) vaccine is effective but costly. A task force will investigate how private-public partnerships can make the vaccine more affordable and available to smallholder livestock keepers in east, central and southern Africa. Link:
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Yes good for Americans but remember food choice is a privilege -- in America 'food deserts' as well poor urbanites need access to good affordable food, animal and plant based. Who can pay for all of these plant based alternatives
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It was a pleasure to meet with
Cabinet Secretary for Foreign & Diaspora Affairs of the Republic of Kenya. avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the assurance of its highest consideration.
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@DrAlfredMutua met @ILRI_JimmySmith former Director General of @ILRI International Livestock Research Institute(ILRI) together with Dr. @ADjikeng the newly appointed Director General, ILRI.
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The British empire caused 165 million deaths in India in 40 years:
A new study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth
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Today I received a courtesy visit from the new Director General ILRI, Professor Appolinaire Djikeng.
We discussed on a range of issues in the livestock sector especially breeding and livestock insurance programmes that are currently being undertaken by SDLD.
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