CANA Stretches Nature’s Lungs by Planting Trees at Kitale Club

CANA Stretches Nature’s Lungs by Planting Trees at Kitale Club

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 […]

3 reasons why employers should promote tree planting

3 reasons why employers should promote tree planting

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 […]

Celebrating Kenyas’ ‘humming bird’ moment

December 4, 2023 As I bent down to plant the first of my trees on Monday 13th November, I shed a tear. A tear of joy. Until that moment I had been coordinating various tree planting events both in my corporate and private capacity. But at that moment, bent down, I remembered her, my tree planting shero, Prof Wangari Maathai. I remembered […]

Improved animal feed equals increased dairy incomes in Bihar

Improved animal feed equals increased dairy incomes in Bihar

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 […]

Woman farmer celebrates better life through livestock in Odisha, India

Woman farmer celebrates better life through livestock in Odisha, India

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 […]

Barbara Wieland joins ILRI’s Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity team

Barbara Wieland joins ILRI’s Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity team

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) […]

Study shows how Tanzania dairy farmers stand to benefit from improved commercial feeds

A new study has revealed the extent to which dairy farmers in Tanzania are under-served by the feeds manufacturing sector, which despite having adequate capacity, is operating at only 50% of installed capacity. On average, dairy feeds account for just 4% of what is produced by feed manufacturers in Tanzania, with poultry feeds production dominating (96%) the sector. According to […]

Experts to discuss livestock and livelihoods for Africa

Nearly 500 delegates from over 20 countries will converge in Nairobi this morning October 27, to discuss Africa’s Animal Agriculture: Macro-trends and future opportunities. Meeting under the auspices of the 6th  All African Conference on Animal Agriculture, the delegates, comprising mainly of scientific researchers in different aspects of the agricultural field will debate, hold plenary sessions and have focus theme […]