imGoats project draws on communication support to maximise impacts

Posted on 10 Jul 2012 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

The imGoats project aims to increase incomes and food security in a sustainable manner by enhancing pro-poor small ruminant value chains in India and Mozambique. It is running until December 2012 and five months before its end, project members recently examined what the project can contribute in terms of useful lessons and outputs of different sorts … Continue reading →

East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / people / Social media

ILRI helps set up local ‘Knowledge Management for Development’ group in Ethiopia

Posted on 3 Jul 2012 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is an established community of practice (CoP) that seeks to forge linkages and encourage peer learning and exploration around the field of knowledge management for development. The network has grown a lot over the past five years and now has just under 1500 mailing list subscribers and over 2700 Ning … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / East Africa / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / WLE

Communication coalition helping rainfed systems research program to ‘keep the flame’

Posted on 28 Jun 2012 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

The CGIAR world is currently in a whirlwind of workshops coinciding with the launch of various large research programs or of specific sub-sets of activities under these programs. From 12-14 June, 2012, the Tribe Hotel in Nairobi hosted one such workshop dedicated to the specific activities of the ‘Rainfed systems‘ strategic research program (SRP) and ecosystems … Continue reading →

Agriculture / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

CGIAR knowledge sharing – connecting researchers and farmers

Posted on 25 Jun 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

In its RIO+20 Call-to-action, CGIAR called for knowledge sharing systems that engage with smallholder farmers to improve the management of their crops, livestock and natural resources in order to increase production as well as minimize negative environmental impacts. Four CGIAR knowledge management specialists share their experiences on AlertNet: Peter Ballantyne (International Livestock Research Institute – … Continue reading →

ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Staff

Angeline Wafula – new KMIS staff member in Nairobi

Posted on 21 Jun 2012 by Angeline Nekesa • Leave a comment

Angela, as she prefers, is the new Knowledge Sharing and Communications Officer based at ILRI Nairobi campus. A communication and public relations graduate of Moi University, with journalism and environmental communications background, she is determined to help KMIS realize its vision. Before joining ILRI, she worked as a project/communications officer at Seeds of Peace Africa … Continue reading →

ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Open access / Presentation

Using open knowledge and innovation to support program learning at ILRI

Posted on 11 Jun 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

This week in Addis Ababa, the The USAID-funded TOPS Program held a Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting to bring together food security and nutrition grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking (see event program and details). On the afternoon of the first day, Peter Ballantyne (Head … Continue reading →

ICT / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Social media / Training

Komms Klinics reloaded: Get smarter about research information, knowledge and communication at ILRI

Posted on 23 May 2012 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

ILRI staff, other CGIAR centers and partner organizations involved in research for development all have to work with information, knowledge and communication. In fact they all do it, continuously. Research is indeed about information, knowledge and communication too, whether alone, in teams and in wider and increasingly complex partnerships. We can achieve smarter research through smarter … Continue reading →

Agriculture / Film and Video / ILRIComms / Livestock

Voices from the field: Using multimedia to tell livestock stories

Posted on 21 May 2012 by Paul Karaimu • Leave a comment

In 2010 the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) started making photofilms to capture event highlights and to tell stories about people who depend on livestock for their livelihoods, food, income and cropping. What are photofilms? A photofilm combines (mostly still) photographs and audio recordings in a multimedia product, usually just a few minutes in length. … Continue reading →

Agriculture / CCAFS / Climate change / Event / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

Social learning and climate change: CGIAR and partners in the (local) decision-making whirlwind

Posted on 15 May 2012 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) last week convened a workshop on communication and social learning in climate change. How did we tackle to challenge of facilitating a ‘social learning’ process with a room full of facilitators and communicators? CCAFS seeks to “overcome the threats to agriculture and food … Continue reading →

Asia / ILRIComms / India / Knowledge and Information / Report / South Asia

Getting the right content for ICTs in India

Posted on 7 May 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

A new IFPRI discussion paper authored by Claire Glendenning (IFPRI) and Pier-Paolo Ficarelli (ILRI) examines content development and management processes occurring in six well-known ICT projects in Indian agriculture. Though there are differences in scale and mechanisms of delivery and feedback, all of the case study projects use a network of experts in relevant fields … Continue reading →