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Pacem Kotchofa’s PPR research wins second place at World Food Forum’s Transformative Research Challenge

Pacem Kotchofa, a Beninese-born agricultural economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) who leads the socio-economic thematic group of the Peste de Petits Ruminants (PPR) Global Research and Expertise Network (PPR GREN), was awarded second place at the World Food Forum’s...

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Develop, Demonstrate and Deploy’: Building capacity in DNA sequencing for agricultural biosciences in Africa

Africa is incredibly rich in plant, animal, and human diversity. Uncovering the genetic basis of this diversity could hold the key to improving the productivity of crops and livestock and enhancing human health on the continent. A unique and comprehensive bioinformatics training programme has been...

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Laughter, the universal language

Author Zoë Campbell at a community meeting with Fulani pastoralists in Senegal (photo credit: Guy Ilboudo, ILRI-Burkina Faso). Written by ILRI gender and socioeconomic researcher Zoë Campbell. If there were no language barriers, what would research be like, I wonder? I’m a gender researcher working...

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Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

Woman pastoralist milks her goat (Photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet) To launch research activities in support of controlling peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in West Africa, a workshop held last month in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, outlined a roadmap for the implementation of the project at...

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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...

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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—The Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...

Safe Food Fair Food blog

Agrilinks hosts month-long focus on food safety

Including two contributions featuring the Safe Food, Fair Food Africa project: Food Safety in Informal Markets in Low-Income Countries Gender Considerations in Informal Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa AgHealth Fish market in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (photo credit: WorldFish/Jamie Oliver)...

  • Kristina Rösel
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Safe Food, Fair Food project partners meet in Germany to take stock of achievements and discuss future collaborations

On 14-16 September 2015, the Safe Food, Fair Food project partners held their final synthesis meeting in Berlin, Germany to share and compile the progress on the pilot intervention studies to improve food safety in livestock and fish value chains in sub-Saharan Africa. We also reflected on the...

  • Kristina Rösel
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Ready to test interventions to improve food safety in selected livestock value chains in Africa

From 15-17 April 2014, the Safe Food, Fair Food (SFFF) project partners came together for their annual progress and planning meeting at the campus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Ethiopia. The workshop was opened by Dr Azage Tegegne, Deputy to the ILRI Director General’s...

  • Kristina Rösel
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Safe Food, Fair Food: more than 20 project outputs in 2013

In 2013 the partners in the ILRI -led and BMZ-funded project Safe Food Fair Food spent most of their time in the field conducting rapid assessments and baseline surveys in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Nonetheless, a number of publications were finalized. Nine more students from the...

  • Kristina Rösel
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Safe Food, Fair Food team in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal complete field data collection in small ruminant value chains

Due to the crisis in Mali, the rapid risk assessment on animal health and food safety in the small ruminant value chains which we initially planned to start in March 2013 in Mali, finally started in Senegal in June 2013. Scientists participating in this rapid risk assessment included Professor...

  • Kristina Rösel