Category Archives: Vaccines

German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet
A4NH / Agri-Health / Agriculture / AHH / Animal Health / ASF / BecA / Biotechnology / CBPP / CCAFS / CGIAR / Climate Change / Dairying / Diagnostics / Directorate / Environment / Event Report / FFD / Food Safety / Forages / Genetics / Germany / ILRI / LiveGene / LIVESTOCKCRP / Mazingira / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research / Seeds / SLS / Spotlight / Vaccines

German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet

Posted on by • Leave a comment

ILRI was honoured this week (3 Sep 2018) to host a high-level German delegation including Maria Flachsbarth, parliamentary state secretary to Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, and Stefan Schmitz, deputy director of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as well as senior staff of the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation, including Andrew Tuimur, chief administrative secretary, and Ann Onyango, agriculture secretary; and representatives from several other CGIAR centres working in Kenya, including Tony Simons, director general of ICRAF, and representatives from the Nairobi-based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). Continue reading →

Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs
Agri-Health / AHH / Animal Health / ASF / China / Epidemiology / Event / ILRI / LIVESTOCKCRP / Pigs / Spotlight / Vaccines

Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs

Posted on by • 1 Comment

Long feared, it’s now finally happened. African swine fever (ASF), an infectious and highly lethal viral disease of pigs, has for the first time reared its head in China. Just two weeks ago, African swine fever was confirmed as the cause of death of pigs on a small farm in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, located in the northeast, bordering North Korea and the Yellow Sea. Continue reading →

Reducing use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock in low-income countries: Two scientists reflect on options
Agri-Health / AHH / AMR / Animal Health / Disease Control / Emerging Diseases / Environment / Epidemiology / Health / ILRI / Interview / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Spotlight / Vaccines

Reducing use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock in low-income countries: Two scientists reflect on options

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Delia Grace Randolph, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert who co-leads the Animal and Human Health program at ILRI, was interviewed recently by Wilton Park, a non-profit discussion centre in the UK. The event at which Grace spoke was a workshop held 11–13 Apr 2018 in West Sussex on Innovations to reduce the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals in low- and middle-income countries. Continue reading →

Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes
AHH / Article / Corporate Report / ILRI / Kenya / PIL / Scaling / Spotlight / Tanzania / Vaccines

Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes

Posted on by • Leave a comment

East Coast fever causes annual losses estimated at more than USD300 million and more than one million cattle deaths. Recent research-for-development approaches have accelerated the uptake of the ITM vaccine and demonstrated how its use is driving increased incomes for small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya and Tanzania. Continue reading →

Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
Africa / Article / BecA / Chickens / Corporate Report / ILRI / Kenya / Spotlight / Vaccines

Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Poultry farming in Kenya is growing rapidly and remains largely dominated by women, who typically invest most of their earnings in feeding their families and educating their children. That is why controlling major poultry diseases is so important. Continue reading →

Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever
AHH / Animal Health / Cattle / Disease Control / Drylands / East Africa / Emerging Diseases / Epidemiology / Film and Video / Health / ILRI / Kenya / News clipping / Policy / RVF / Sheep / Spotlight / Vaccines

Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Originally posted on ILVAC:
Written by Bernard Bett Several outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in livestock and people have occurred in eastern Africa over the last three months or so. In the first week of June 2018, local media reported at least five fatal human cases in Kenya’s northern Wajir County. More suspected cases in…

How closing livestock yield gaps can enhance incomes, food security and the environment in Ethiopia and India
Animal Feeding / Animal Health / Animal Production / Dairying / East Africa / Ethiopia / Feeds / ILRI / India / Markets / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Report / South Asia / Spotlight / Vaccines

How closing livestock yield gaps can enhance incomes, food security and the environment in Ethiopia and India

Posted on by • 3 Comments

Estimates of livestock yield gaps are not available and these are necessary for developing feasible scenarios of how the production of different livestock commodities might evolve in the future, how systems might change and what would be the resource use implications and their costs, both for donors and for public and private entities in target countries. Continue reading →