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Uganda biobank to promote access to livestock samples and data

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led Boosting Uganda’s Investment in Livestock Development (BUILD) project has established a biorepository to support livestock sample storage and data management in Uganda. Housed at the National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology...

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BUILD project’s Joseph Nkamwesiga wins inaugural FAO award for research on goat plague

Joseph Nkamwesiga, a researcher with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led Boosting Uganda’s Investment in Livestock Development (BUILD) project, is one of 12 recipients of the first-ever Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) peste des petits ruminants (PPR) Special Prize. The...

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Building Capacity for One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa

Today on 3 November 2022 the world commemorates One Health Day. At ILRI there are significant activities on One Health, but one that stands out is the project Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa (COHESA) . Working across 11 countries in eastern and southern Africa regions, COHESA...

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Concurrent vaccines could reduce cost of disease prevention in goats and sheep

Concurrent administration of vaccines against different diseases in goats and sheep can reduce vaccination costs by 70%. It can also increase vaccine adoption, thereby curbing the spread of diseases and the related devastation of farmers’ livelihoods. Researchers in the International Livestock...

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Hybrid extension approach promotes adoption of high-quality forages in Uganda

According to the Uganda’s Dairy Development Authority, annual milk production in the country increased from 2.08 to 2.5 billion litres between 2015 and 2017/18 . But further improvement in milk productivity since then has been hampered by inconsistent supply of nutritious forages between the wet...

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The problem of using human medication to treat free-range poultry in Soroti, Uganda 

The use of human medication to treat sick birds has been noted amongst 203 poultry-keeping households in eastern Uganda. This is attributed, in part, to challenges rural smallholder farmers face in accessing veterinary drugs. The most common human medications used in poultry were painkillers,...

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PPR epidemiology to inform risk-based control in Uganda

Joseph Nkamwesiga is a PhD student at Freie Universität Berlin. His PhD research topic is epidemiology of peste des petit ruminants (PPR) in Uganda . It contributes to the PPR epidemiology component of the Boosting Uganda’s Investment in Livestock Development (BUILD) project, whose overall...

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Open Data Kit to improve livestock disease surveillance and reporting in Uganda

Surveillance of livestock diseases is key to reduce their harm to livelihoods, development and even humans. Meat inspectors in Uganda are using the Open Data kit (ODK) tool to improve animal disease surveillance and reporting, and sharing their experiences and knowledge with peers. The tool was...

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The status of pig welfare in selected districts of Uganda: implications for health and productivity interventions

A survey conducted in four high pig producing districts in central Uganda has revealed that designing simple interventions that target housing structures, provision of cooling facilities especially during hot periods (heat stress) and bedding materials can improve farmer livelihoods and pig welfare...

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Tackling ‘rational’ antibiotic use in agriculture to slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance

Original blog post by Ivo Syndicus Recent findings by the One Health Poultry Hub were discussed at an international workshop in Uganda, and support an integrated antibiotic stewardship framework which understands why farmers make the decisions they do. A major challenge for tackling excessive and...

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Taking context seriously: In the developing world, containing COVID-19 came at a cost only now being understood

ILRI scientists recently published a paper in the journal Agricultural Systems . Reproduced here is the press release published in EurekAlert . In a recent survey of farmers in seven countries of the developing world, up to 80 per cent of respondents reported eating less and up to 50 per cent...

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FeedCalculator app and Good Manufacturing Practices and Quality Assurance Handbook to improve animal feed in Uganda

A new publication by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) explains how farmers can improve smallholder pig enterprises by producing quality feed. Targeting small-scale farmers and pig feed-makers, the Good Manufacturing Practices and Quality Assurance Handbook contains information...

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    Feeds and Training Expert(FeedCalculator APP/Single Spark SMC Limited)