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‘One Health for the Real World’ (or, ‘real livestock for real global wellbeing’)
A4NH / Africa / Agri-Health / Animal Diseases / Disease Control / Emerging Diseases / Epidemiology / Event Report / FSZ / Human Health / ILRI / Launch / Project / Report / RVF / Spotlight / Trypanosomiasis / Zoonotic Diseases

‘One Health for the Real World’ (or, ‘real livestock for real global wellbeing’)

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Twenty organizations, including ILRI, made up the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium, which from 2012 to 2015 coordinated research exploring the relations among African ecosystems and zoonotic diseases—those transmitted between animals and people—that impinge on ecosystem, human and animal wellbeing. Continue reading →

Building better brands and lives through peri-urban dairying and smart crop-dairy farming
Agriculture / Animal Production / Animal Products / Buffalo / Cattle / Dairying / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / India / Livelihoods / Livestock / Photo / Report / South Asia / Spotlight / Trade

Building better brands and lives through peri-urban dairying and smart crop-dairy farming

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The fourth in a series of articles on ‘Curds and goats, lives and livelihoods—A dozen stories from northern and eastern India’.
PART 4: Culture of the cow: Curds of the village—Building better brands and lives through peri-urban dairying Continue reading →

Culture of the cow: Curds in the city—Better living through smallholder dairying in northern India
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Culture of the cow: Curds in the city—Better living through smallholder dairying in northern India

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This is the third in a series of articles on ‘Curds and goats, lives and livelihoods—A dozen stories from northern and eastern India’. Continue reading →

Serious rain: East Africa’s annual Easter resurrection
Drought / East Africa / Food Security / ILRI / Kenya / Opinion Piece / Spotlight / Water

Serious rain: East Africa’s annual Easter resurrection

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Exactly four days following Easter Sunday this year, the ‘long rains’ arrived in Nairobi, watering the earth, flooding the streets, pounding the rooftops. All night that night, and all night the following nights, the kusi monsoon, blowing inland from across the Indian Ocean, has delivered the beating rain. Continue reading →

Reverse vaccinology identifies candidates for an improved vaccine against cattle pneumonia in Africa
Africa / Article / Biotechnology / Cattle / CBPP / Disease Control / ILRI / ILVAC / Kenya / LIVESTOCKFISH / Spotlight / Vaccines

Reverse vaccinology identifies candidates for an improved vaccine against cattle pneumonia in Africa

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We used a reverse vaccinology approach to identify 66 Mmm potential vaccine candidates. The selection and grouping of the antigens was based on the presence of specific antibodies in sera from CBPP-positive animals. The antigens were used to immunize male Boran cattle (Bos indicus) followed by a challenge with the Mmm strain Afadé. Continue reading →

Elite buffaloes and other exemplars of advanced Indian dairy science at the National Dairy Research Institute
Agriculture / Animal Breeding / Animal Production / Biotechnology / Breeds / Buffalo / Cattle / Dairying / Event / Genetics / ILRI / India / Livestock / Research / South Asia

Elite buffaloes and other exemplars of advanced Indian dairy science at the National Dairy Research Institute

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Shrestha, a spirited buffalo bull, greeted Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), with a low grunt during a visit Smith and his delegation recently made at the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), India’s pre-eminent dairy research centre, located in the northern city of Karnal and the prosperous state of Haryana. Continue reading →

Colourful convocation: Jimmy Smith addresses graduates of India’s prestigious National Dairy Research Institute
Dairying / Directorate / Event Report / ILRI / ILRIComms / India / Presentation / Pro-Poor Livestock / South Asia / Spotlight

Colourful convocation: Jimmy Smith addresses graduates of India’s prestigious National Dairy Research Institute

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ILRI Director General Jimmy Smith was in Haryana, India, to give the convocation address (aka ‘the commencement speech’ in North America) at NDRI’s 14th graduation ceremony. Smith was also being awarded an honorary degree (honoris causa) for his contributions to livestock research for development. Continue reading →

CGIAR Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project launches today, #WorldMetDay
Agriculture / CCAFS / Central Africa / Climate Change / East Africa / Geodata / ILRI / Launch / Rwanda / SLS / Spotlight

CGIAR Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project launches today, #WorldMetDay

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A new project is reconstructing Rwanda’s incomplete meteorological data record using cutting-edge climate science and developing climate information products and services based on the expressed needs of the country’s farmers and other end users. The work is carried out by RAB and Meteo Rwanda, in collaboration with CCAFS, IRI at Columbia University, ICRAF and ILRI, with funding from USAID. Continue reading →

Livestock can significantly reduce greenhouse gases AND deliver benefits to the poor–Nature Climate Change
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Livestock can significantly reduce greenhouse gases AND deliver benefits to the poor–Nature Climate Change

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Mario Herrero, chief research scientist for Food Systems and the Environment at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in Australia, and colleagues have published a paper in Nature Climate Change on Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector. Continue reading →

Harnessing livestock for the Sustainable Development Goals
Agriculture / Consumption / Directorate / Environment / Food Security / Livelihoods / Livestock / Presentation / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research

Harnessing livestock for the Sustainable Development Goals

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One of the fastest growing subsectors in agriculture–livestock–can significantly contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if the opportunities it offers, especially for people in developing countries, are harnessed for economic growth, improved livelihoods and food and nutritional security. Continue reading →