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GL-CRSP News Archive Below is a list of all previous GL-CRSP news articles organized by month and year. Click on an article's title to view the entire posting.

October 2009

NPR's Morning Edition: "Vacancy at Helm of U.S. Agency for International Development" Drought in East Africa: "A Catastrophe is Looming" "Mobile Marvels"

September 2009

The GL-CRSP End of Program Conference "From Problem Models to Solutions"

April 2009

GL-CRSP Final Conference! Call for Poster Presentation Abstracts and Travel Awards for GL-CRSP Final Conference SUMAWA project featured in United Nations Environment Programme Environment for Development Video

March 2009

CQ Weekly: Helping Foreign Farmers to Help Themselves SciDevNet: Spotlight on Aid for Higher Education

February 2009

HIV Nutrition Project Feature Story in IUPUI Research Enterprise Newsletter SciDevNet: Climate Change 'More Serious' As Emissions Soar BioSand Filters (BSF) Significantly Improve Drinking Water Quality in Bonao, Dominican Republic SciDevNet: Ghana gets science minister after three years

January 2009

CSM: How to feed the hungry billion Financial Times: Warning of Food Crunch with Prices Poised to Rise Does Africa need a Pan-African University? Setting Forth a Clear Path for USAID To Regain a Global Leadership Role in Development Assistance SciDevNet: Future US–Africa collaborations 'more promising' Troubled Waters in Tanzania

December 2008

USGLC: Record Bipartisan Members of Congress Support Robust International Affairs Budget World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’ Afghan Livestock Workshop a Success!

November 2008

Afghanistan: Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, & Livestock call for international aid to avert livestock crisis

October 2008

Food Price Crisis Symposium Podcasts Now Available as Vol. 4, Episodes 1-9 SciDev.Net: "Safe water and sanitation key to reducing poverty" SciDev.Net: Scientists Urge Policymakers to Consider Small-scale Farmers in GHG Emission Policies Ren Wang, Director – CGIAR, “Invest now in ag science to prevent hunger crisis” SciDev.Net: "Africa Needs Warning Systems for Wildlife Diseases" WHO Experts Raise Antiquated Nutrition Standards

September 2008

GL-CRSP Mali Livestock & Pastoralist Initiative (MLPI) Featured in USAID Mali Mission's Newsletter! Health for Animal and Livelihood Improvement (HALI) Project launches a new Blog! Researchers Pinpoint Climate Change 'Hot Spots' Jim Ellis Mentorship Program for Graduate Students 2008 RFP Released African farmers missing out on the global livestock revolution "Unable to put beef and fish on the table, Africa courts animal spread diseases" HALI Project Envirovet Summer Institute 2008 a Success! Global aid conference in Accra, Ghana concludes less talk, more action Journal of Rangelands announces 3G special feature to be published in Rangeland Ecology & Management Charlie Wilson on development spending and national security

August 2008

Clinton says nutrition key to AIDS fight

June 2008

New Blog focusing on livestock activity in Afghanistan! GL-CRSP wiki page developed for the Global Development Commons GL-CRSP HALI Project Manager Deana Clifford addresses the Woodrow Wilson Center on Human and Ecosystem Health GL-CRSP HALI Project to host the Envirovet Summer Institute 2008 in Ruaha, Tanzania

May 2008

Jim Ellis Mentorship Program Field Blog - Part 2

April 2008

Livestock Forage Prediction in Mongolia Transformed Thanks to USG Assistance (Cable) USAID Releases the Global Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Concept Paper GL-CRSP/World Bank Planning Initiative Report: Repositioning Livestock on the Development Agenda

March 2008

Jim Ellis Mentorship Program Field Blog: Part 1

February 2008

Study finds Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Rise Jim Ellis Mentorship Program for Graduate Students RFP Released Borlaug LEAP Request for Applications Deadline Approaching! Borrowing the brains while reversing the drain A Case for New Institutions PARIMA Collective Action Groups recognized as Development Heroes A Dying Breed: New York Times Magazine Article on Livestock Biodiversity in Uganda Indonesian Chickens and People Hit Hard by Bird Flu

November 2007

Senate Report: "Embassies Grapple to Guide Foreign Aid" & McPherson Testimony

October 2007

Science education key to ending poverty in Africa Equipping Universities to Join the War Against Poverty Africa alarmed by anti bird flu funding slump

September 2007

'Hardy' livestock on the decline in the developing world ENAM Presentation and videos now available for download AFS Presentation now available for download GL-CRSP Podcast Volume 5: ENAM PI Grace Marquis' presentation from the EPAC Meeting at Bodega Bay, California, August 22, 2007

August 2007

Improved nutrition 'cannot replace HIV or TB drugs' HALI Project Presentation for the GL-CRSP EPAC Meeting

July 2007

The Complexities of Aid Distribution in Africa: The Ogaden Case, Ethiopia U.S. Partnerships Could Help African Universities In Poorer Nations, Cellphones Help Open Up Microfinancing TB or not TB: The threat of bovine tuberculosis

June 2007

The spread of avian flu with time: new maps exploiting Google Earth's time series function LEWS/LINKS featured in Baobab Journal Crisis in the Horn UNICEF Video News Brief: Kenya Drought Situation Worsens New Atlas helps identify connections between poverty and ecosystems GL-CRSP Podcast Vol. 4: PARIMA RB 06-02, 'Do Pastoral Husbands and Wives in Northern Kenya View Milk Marketing Differently?' Crumbs to the Poor: Poverty Reduction through Animal Health What Does Africa Need Most: Technology or Aid? Out of Utah - to Africa: PARIMA receives a visit from Congressional adviser Pearl-Alice Marsh

May 2007

'Africa's Storied Colleges, Jammed and Crumbling' GL-CRSP Podcast Volume 3: WOOL Research Brief 06-01, 'Cashmere in Kazakhstan: A Marketing Update' 'Inequality Rife' for Young Girls Global Livestock CRSP Podcast Vol. 2: 'Bridging Institutional Barriers to Make Horizontal Connections in a Vertical World' Global Livestock CRSP Podcast Vol. 1: Interview with David Bunn, Project Manager for the Avian Flu School Project BBC In Pictures: Southern Sudan's Cattle Camps

April 2007

2006 research briefs for PARIMA, LINKS, and WOOL are available Avian Flu: The Economic Costs 'Patient' Capital

March 2007

African Lake's Iconic Birds are Vanishing

January 2007

Bird Flu Persists in Indonesia (Video) An Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever Kills Dozens in Kenya Malnutrition is Cheating it's Survivors, and Africa's Future

December 2006

Livestock Raid in Northern Kenya Nomadic herders go high-tech

April 2006

BBC offers live Q&A session with Ethiopian drought victims

March 2006

UN World Food Program produces video game to raise world hunger awareness 2005 research briefs for PARIMA are available John McPeak and Peter Little publish their book on livestock marketing in Eastern Africa

February 2006

BEHAVE project studies behavioral principles in ecosystem management Watch the new GOBI Forage video