Mixed crop-and-livestock farms will, more than the traditional breadbaskets and rice bowls of the past, feed the developing world over the next few decades Continue reading
Author Archives: ILRI Communications
Ewen Le Borgne joins ILRI as Knowledge Sharing and Communication Specialist
Today, Ewen Le Borgne officially joined the KMIS team, based in Addis Ababa. Ewen will lead a range of activities around knowledge sharing/management, learning, event facilitation, communication and monitoring & evaluation. He believes that development is “all about empowerment and that learning is essential to empowerment because it gives the means to continually improve one’s … Continue reading
Publishing and sharing ‘open’ journal articles in ILRI
In line with ILRI’s strategy on publishing, we aim to make as many of our ILRI research products as possible open for our partners and others to access. Our dspace repository (Mahider) contains a full index (we hope) to recent outputs as well as the full ‘text’s of reports, documents and the like … See … Continue reading
ILRI research travelling further than ever
In this video, Bruce Scott, Director of Partnerships and Communications (P&C) at ILRI introduces the aims and objectives of the annual P&C retreat held in Addis Ababa in January 2011: Looking back on the past year, setting priorities for the coming year. The key issue was how we ensure that the outputs of ILRI research … Continue reading
ILRI extends bandwidth and use of ICTs
Speaking at the January 2011 ILRI Partnerships and Communications (P&C) retreat, Ian Moore, Head of ICT at ILRI reflects on the past year. He points to improvements in connectivity and bandwidth at various ILRI locations, especially at the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa. Much progress has also been made in the use of ICTs to … Continue reading
ILRI communications getting social
Speaking at the January 2011 ILRI Partnerships and Communications (P&C) retreat, Susan MacMillan, Head of Public Awareness at ILRI reflects on the past year. She highlights that we moved from print to online; from normal media to social media, especially blogging. The big challenge for 2011: How are we going to continue, and take it … Continue reading
Liya Dejene joins ILRI Knowledge Management team
Liya Dejene has joined Knowledge Management and Information Services as Web Communications Assistant starting December 3, 2010. Liya has BSc in Information Systems from Addis Ababa University in 2007. Continue reading
