Ms Ann (right) Director CANA assists Ms Jane Gitau (KSC) in tree planting exercise at Kitale Club during KSC Classic Golf Tournament on 29th March 2025 On the Kitale Suam highway, few metres from Matisi center lies the Community Action Network of Africa (CANA) a grassroot non-political organization registered in 2003 with the Ministry of Gender and Social Services. The […]
Employers encounter several challenges in keeping workers happy, engaged and thriving. Often, inadequate workplace communication undermines the very effort to maintain harmony and cooperation among workers. Creativity can be used however, to turn potential mines into gold. Key among these is the simple exercise of tree planting. We all know the obvious benefits of tree planting such as provision of […]
Creating a mini-safari trail in Trans Nzoia county will be an opportunity for transformation of tourism leading to building more robust businesses through innovation, digital¬ization and partnerships – Sarah Musundi, KAWT VC
Anuj Kumar Jha, a very young farmer of Kalyanpur village, Sarairanjan block, Samastipur district of Bihar. He only has 0.5 acre of agricultural land and was unsure about what to do with scarce land and unemployment. All that changed in 2011, when he met ILRI-CSISA people in livestock training and shared his concerns with them. Following that conversation, he was […]
Pravati is the secretary of the Kapila Muni women Milk Society under local government cooperative society (Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED)) in Barandua village. She is also the only trained artificial insemination expert providing services to farmers under the ILRI portion of the Cereal System Initiatives for South Asia (CSISA) Project in that village. As the secretary, she […]
The seemingly sleepy village at the end of the road is not so sleepy after all. Guagadia village produced an overnight entrepreneur, one who had never imagined he would ever do anything beyond feeding his dairy cattle, milking them and selling the milk to the local dairy Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED). When the workers of the feed […]
Barbara Wieland joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on 5 January 2015 as team leader herd health in the Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity (ASSP) program. Wieland is a Swiss national who graduated as a veterinarian at the University of Bern. She did her post-doctoral fellowship in the UK in a joint position with the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) […]