ILRI Training Space

Kenya

Should a woman own a cow? should she drink its milk?  To the open minded reader, these are pretty obvious answers, however in some farming communities in East africa, these are quite contentious questions. What do you think?

The EADD project in Uganda is working towards mainstreaming gender involvement in dairy farming by allowing equal access to resources by men, women and youth.

Through providing training on proper animal husbandry, financial literacy and cooperative formation and governance, the project is equipping the farmer communities of central Uganda with skills that will enable them attain sustainable income levels.

The debate , though still stands. To what extent should the women be involved? Should it be limited to feeding the animals, cleaning their sheds or washing their troughs? Should the women wait for the measly stipends their husbands shall provide after a day’s milk sale or should they be empowered to add value to this milk through ghee and yorghurt making?

Striga is a nightmare weed for maize farmers in Western Kenya

Addis Ababa, 12 April: The social media training started today. The training took place at ILRI Addis Ababa and it was conducted by IT professionals who are highly skilled in managing social media. They emphasised the need to carefully categorise the content. This is akin to classifying the content for search engines.

The training continues on 13 April starting at 9 am

Using Eye Catching Titles

I know most of you would want to read this blog because the title is catchy. The reason why most readers tend to read some blogs is simply because of using exciting and eye catching titles.

Now you know the importance of having catchy titles when blogging!!!

According to Professor Oladipo, Daystar University 65% of blog users have the tendency of being attracted to blog titles that are eye catching.

Social media training for EADD and AATF

Training participants were drawn from AATF based in Nairobi, Kenya and EADD Kenya and Uganda offices. The facilitators are from ILRI Ethiopia.

Areas covered

Day one of the training covered an introduction to social media tools. These include blogs and wikis. Day two will look at twitter and yammer.

Its just my first attempt at blogging and I am already loving this. I can now have my name listed on the Google search engine for writing about something I am very passionate about. I find this truly awesome

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