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One Health experts to host webinar on animal health and pandemic prevention

Governments are currently negotiating a historic global pandemic treaty to protect us from future pandemics. The special session of the 2021 World Health Assembly agreed that the new accord will focus on early detection and prevention of pandemics, as well as the One Health approach which...

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New study reviews strategies to reduce acaricide resistance in ticks in smallholder livestock systems in Africa

Ticks are a major cause of economic losses in the livestock sector in the tropics and sub-tropics. Ticks transmit the pathogens that cause livestock diseases such as East Coast fever, babesiosis and anaplasmosis which are responsible for the deaths of millions of cattle every year. In many African...

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ILRI marks World Food Safety Day 2022 with a focus on food safety research for better health

To commemorate this year’s World Food Safety Day (7 June) under the theme Safer food, better health , the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has launched an online food safety campaign and landing page to showcase its collaborative research on risk-based approaches to improving food...

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New study provides the first detailed report on the occurrence of the tick-borne parasite Babesia bovis in cattle in Kenya

Tick-borne diseases pose a significant threat to smallholder livestock keeping in Kenya and the East Africa region at large. One of these tick-borne diseases is babesiosis, caused by the protozoan parasite Babesia . Babesia bigemina is endemic and widespread in East Africa while the status of the...

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ILRI and partners develop benchmarks for undergraduate food safety curriculum for East Africa

Towards enhancing food safety in East Africa, the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) and the Inter-University Council for East Africa ( IUCEA ) have been working with food safety experts from universities in the...

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ILRI scientist Delia Grace wins 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for research innovation

We congratulate Delia Grace , professor of food safety systems at the Natural Resources Institute and joint appointed scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), on winning the 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award in the research innovation category. Delia Grace is a...

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Risk-based and One Health approaches for improved food safety in Africa

The rapid evolution of global food safety systems in response to population growth, urbanization, climate change and other socio-economic factors poses many food safety challenges. Globally, unsafe food causes an estimated 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths annually, with Africa...

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New research offers insights on bridging the gap between policy and reality in Kenya’s informal milk sector

Effective communication and constructive dialogue on inclusive ways forward between policy-makers and informal milk vendors can help to bridge the gap between policy and reality in Kenya’s informal milk sector, according to a new research study published in Development Policy Review (May 2022)...

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Experts call for investment in zoonotic disease surveillance in remote rural areas to improve global health security

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to strengthen national surveillance systems to protect a globally connected world. In low-income and middle-income countries, zoonotic disease surveillance has advanced considerably in the past two decades. However, surveillance efforts often...

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Experts discuss the impact of climate change on tick-borne pathogens in western, central and eastern Africa

Africa is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, impacting the emergence, re-emergence and spread of vector-borne diseases. The epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in tropical Africa is complex, often characterized by co-infection of livestock and wildlife with multiple tick-borne...

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Using participatory impact pathway methodology to evaluate public–private partnerships in the poultry sector in Ethiopia

A new case study on the poultry sector in Ethiopia reports on the first use of participatory impact pathway methodology to evaluate public–private partnerships in the veterinary domain. The study, published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science (Feb 2022), represents a milestone in building a...

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Experts call for equitable food system transformation to tackle global health challenges of the 21st century

Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate change and other global health challenges of the 21st century, a new research study says. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Jan 2022), presents a synthesis of the...