New One Health Centre in Africa joins global efforts to prevent future pandemics

Posted on 3 Nov 2020 by Ekta Patel • 1 Comment

The newly launched One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre in Africa (OHRECA) at ILRI will contribute towards addressing neglected zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety and emerging infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda

Posted on 25 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 1 Comment

Driven by rising incomes, demand for animal-source foods in Africa and Asia is expected to increase up to 200% by 2030. Efficient crop and livestock production and natural resource use will drive employment, environmental, nutrition and income gains in a subsector likely to be dominated by smallholders.

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DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity

Posted on 19 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

Important sources of meat, milk, traction and manure across Africa, cattle will become even more significant as demand for meat and milk is expected to more than double in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2030.

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Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa

Posted on 17 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

The implementation of effective mitigation strategies relies on accurate GHG emission data. But what if the underlying assumptions upon which these GHG emission estimates are based are inaccurate?

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Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe

Posted on 13 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

With growing food demand, the adoption of crop and livestock technologies and more efficient markets offer opportunities to enhance agricultural production, food security and resilience in rural Zimbabwe.

Corporate Report / Dairying / Ethiopia / ILRI / ISP / Livelihoods / LIVES / LIVESTOCKCRP / Spotlight

Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia

Posted on 11 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 1 Comment

With incomes rapidly rising in Ethiopia, increasing milk yields and the sale of dairy products hold huge potential for the rural population whose livelihoods largely depend on livestock farming.

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Dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in India

Posted on 9 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural communities in India. Strengthening the efficiency of the Uttarakhand dairy market offers major opportunities to smallholders to expand production and sales of milk.

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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam

Posted on 6 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • Leave a comment

The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods and nutritional security of Vietnamese people. More than 65% of rural households depend on pig farming for their livelihoods.

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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes

Posted on 4 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 1 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.

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 2 Jul 2018 by James Stapleton • 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.

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Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Expert opinion agrees that the best way to tap into the potential of the drylands is to build on the foundation of their livestock economies rather than ignoring them or seeking to replace them.

Agriculture / Climate Change / Environment / LIVESTOCKFISH

Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

For people living in absolute poverty and chronic hunger, the solution is not to rid the world of livestock, but to find ways to farm animals more efficiently and more sustainably

Crop-Livestock / Crops / Intensification / Livestock

Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Mixed crop-and-livestock farms will, more than the traditional breadbaskets and rice bowls of the past, feed the developing world over the next few decades.

Crop Residues / Crop-Livestock / Intensification / Livestock

Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor

Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Making smallholder production more competitive is a powerful tool to reduce poverty, raise nutrition levels and improve the livelihoods of rural people in many developing countries

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Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.

Posted on 7 Oct 2019 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Just in time to add fuel to the fire of the current meat, milk and diet wars being waged in scholarly and lay media alike comes the latest issue (Oct 2019) of the scientific journal ‘Animal Frontiers’ on ‘Foods of animal origin: A prescription for global health’, with the term ‘health’, here, covering both human and environmental health. What it offers is a clear-headed, evidenced based, balanced look at the facts as we know them, and the facts that we need. Continue reading →

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Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health celebrates five-year milestone and plans for its future

Posted on 3 Oct 2019 by Ekta Patel • 1 Comment

The Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH) had a double celebration on 27 September 2019 as it celebrated the achievements made in the first five years of its existence and the signing of a collaborative framework agreement between its founding partners to underpin its future for the next five years. Continue reading →

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ILRI develops a feed constraint decision-making tool, G-FEAST

Posted on 30 Sep 2019 by Ekta Patel • Leave a comment

Seven years ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) developed a decision-making tool known as the Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) which was funded through the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) under the Fodder Adoption Project. Continue reading →

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‘Drylands and Rangelands: Harnessing Change’ at Global Landscapes Forum in New York

Posted on 27 Sep 2019 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is delighted to announce that a session devoted to drylands and rangelands is being incorporated in the agenda of a big event of the estimable Global Landscapes Forum, which is taking place all day tomorrow, in New York City. The theme of this forum, which led by ILRI’s sister CGIAR centre, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), is ‘Restore the Earth: Opportunities and Partnerships’. Continue reading →

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ILRI knowledge management recognized internationally

Posted on 25 Sep 2019 by Paul Karaimu • Leave a comment

ILRI was awarded the 2019 International Knowledge Management Award by the Knowledge Management Austria at a ceremony held 25 Sept 2019 at the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Continue reading →

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ILRI opinion piece in the Financial Times on the place of ‘alt-meats’ (aka ‘meat without feet’) in poorer countries

Posted on 23 Sep 2019 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A ‘Twitter Moment’ distilling Twitter posts about an ILRI opinion piece in the Financial Times on the place of ‘alt-meats’ in low- and middle-income countries Continue reading →

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‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries

Posted on 18 Sep 2019 by Susan MacMillan • 2 Comments

Rather than trying to replace all of the world’s meat, milk and eggs with alternatives, we should be improving husbandry systems and protecting these living assets for the most vulnerable. Continue reading →

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A few engineering breakthroughs that could (literally) transform Africa’s dairy systems and food security

Posted on 12 Sep 2019 by Ekta Patel • Leave a comment

This article has been written by Steve Kemp In the next 30 years, the world population is expected to reach 10 billion. A big question is if we can feed this many people sustainably. A short answer, if one involving much uncertainty, is, Yes, we can. It is commonly understood that agricultural scientists will continue … Continue reading →

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Harnessing livestock innovations for greater economic good

Posted on 10 Sep 2019 by Paul Karaimu • Leave a comment

The rising global demand for livestock-derived foods offers a wealth of new opportunities for transforming the livestock sector into one that is fair as well as sustainable, safe as well as profitable, humane as well as efficient. Continue reading →

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Scientists test an experimental vaccine against malignant catarrhal fever at ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station

Posted on 4 Sep 2019 by Ekta Patel • 1 Comment

Scientists from ILRI, UK, US, Australia and Tanzania have been working together since 2016 to test an experimental vaccine for malignant catarrhal fever (MCF). They tested an attenuated vaccine strain of MCF (AlHV-1 C500) at ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station. Continue reading →

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better lives through livestock

New One Health Centre in Africa joins global efforts to prevent future pandemics

Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda

DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity

Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa

Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe

Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia

Dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in India

Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam

Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes

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

Reducing the vulnerability of dryland pastoralism

Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change

Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world

Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor

Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.

Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health celebrates five-year milestone and plans for its future

ILRI develops a feed constraint decision-making tool, G-FEAST

‘Drylands and Rangelands: Harnessing Change’ at Global Landscapes Forum in New York

ILRI knowledge management recognized internationally

ILRI opinion piece in the Financial Times on the place of ‘alt-meats’ (aka ‘meat without feet’) in poorer countries

‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries

A few engineering breakthroughs that could (literally) transform Africa’s dairy systems and food security

Harnessing livestock innovations for greater economic good

Scientists test an experimental vaccine against malignant catarrhal fever at ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station