Category Archives: Climate change

CLIFF students meet in Germany to exchange knowledge and experience during COP23
Capacity strengthening / CCAFS / Climate change / CRPs / Emission Factors / Environment / Greenhouse Gas / ILRI / Mazingira / SLS

CLIFF students meet in Germany to exchange knowledge and experience during COP23

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Following a grant awarded by Climate, Food and Farming Network (CLIFF) 2017, we, Joseph Macharia and Jane Gitonga got an opportunity to attend the CLIFF workshop held in Cologne, Germany between 7th November and 11th November 2017. The CLIFF Research Network: a capacity-building program for PhD/Masters students from developing countries under the umbrella of Climate … Continue reading →

Designing environmental research infrastructures in Africa
Climate change / East Africa / Environment / ILRI / Mazingira / SLS

Designing environmental research infrastructures in Africa

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On 29 May to 1 June 2017, a team of scientists and other stakeholders in environmental research convened at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi to discuss environmental research infrastructures in Africa. This was a kick-off meeting of the project —Supporting EU-African Cooperation on Research Infrastructures for Food Security and Greenhouse gas observations (SEACRIFOG) — funded by the European Union under the Horizon2020 program. Continue reading →

New research partnership seeks to explore the value of bioslurry
CCAFS / Climate change / East Africa / Environment / Kenya / SLS / Uncategorized

New research partnership seeks to explore the value of bioslurry

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The Mazingira Centre of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has now entered into a research partnership with the Kenya Biogas Program (KBP) of Hivos to assess the environmental, agronomic and productivity effects of bioslurry as organic fertilizer for crops in smallholder systems. Continue reading →

About Us
Climate change / Environment / ILRI / Mazingira / SLS

About Us

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‘Mazingira’ is the Swahili word for ‘environment’. The Mazingira Centre is an environmental research and educational facility established by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi. Research at the Mazingira Centre focuses on understanding and managing the environmental footprint of livestock systems without hampering productivity. Read more here Continue reading →

Voices from the lab: A research fellow shares her experience at the Mazingira Centre
CCAFS / Climate change / East Africa / Environment / Kenya / Mazingira / SLS

Voices from the lab: A research fellow shares her experience at the Mazingira Centre

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In this blog, one of the many researchers hosted by the Mazingira Centre under its objective of capacity development, Shade Akinsete from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, shares her experience as a Postdoctoral fellow (funded via Climate Impacts Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement – CIRCLE – program) – at the Centre. Continue reading →

CCAFS / Climate change / Mazingira / SLS

Reliable and affordable methods for measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture now available

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A new book, Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture, explains how to design a measurement program; how to quantify stocks, stock changes and fluxes of the major GHG sources and sinks including; and how to use field measurements to estimate mitigation potential at larger scales, and assess trade-offs between climate change and development objectives. Continue reading →

CCAFS / Climate change / East Africa / Environment / Mazingira / SLS

Better information and inclusive participation key to enable African farmers cope with changing climate

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The Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (ACSAA) held its second annual forum in Nairobi on 11–13 October 2016 which discussed Africa’s intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs). Under the Paris Agreement that seeks to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, countries publicly outlined the climate actions they intended to take, known as their INDCs. A parallel session by the CGIAR Research … Continue reading →

A new publication provides guidance and support on how to set up credible and affordable greenhouse gas inventories
CCAFS / Climate change / Environment / Uncategorized

A new publication provides guidance and support on how to set up credible and affordable greenhouse gas inventories

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To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector and demonstrate that they are delivering on the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, countries will benefit from using advanced greenhouse gas inventory and accounting methods to monitor, verify and report on emissions. Source: Improved greenhouse gas inventories for livestock essential to meet Paris Climate … Continue reading →

Greenhouse gas emissions from African cattle excreta less than estimated
CCAFS / Climate change / Environment / Kenya / Mazingira / SLS

Greenhouse gas emissions from African cattle excreta less than estimated

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Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
‘While greenhouse gas emissions of cattle excreta vary by diet, breed and other factors, measurements found that commonly used Tier 1 emission factors consistently overestimated actual emissions. Cattle keeping in Kenya (photo credit: CCAFS/C Schubert). Cattle keeping in South Africa (photo via StormSignal on Flickr). ‘Using the state-of-the-art laboratory established…