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Australia-funded safe pork project in Vietnam reviews 2020 achievements and sets goals for 2021

On 27–28 November 2020, the ‘ Market-based approach to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam ,’ or SafePORK project team and partners held an annual planning meeting in Ninh Binh Province, about 100 kilometres south of Hanoi. The two-day workshop, which was hosted by the International Livestock...

Issue 7 of ILRI East and Southeast Asia newsletter now available

The seventh issue of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) East and Southeast Asia newsletter is now available. It provides an overview of the activities from July to December 2019 as well as the upcoming activities in the first six months of 2020. Click here to read ILRI East and...

Enhancing food safety messaging: Media workshop bridges the gap between food safety research and communication in Vietnam

A recent media workshop on ‘risk communications on food safety and human health’ brought together Vietnamese researchers and reporters to discuss ways for better communicating food safety information to the public. Forty journalists from a cross section of Vietnam’s news agencies and magazine...

Field experiences from the first RHoMIS tool application in Vietnam

(The post was written by Thinh Nguyen , research officer at ILRI in East and Southeast Asia) Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey ( RHoMIS ) is a popular tool worldwide for characterizing farm households and for monitoring and evaluating project interventions. For the first time in Vietnam,...

Video: Battling the mosquito-borne diseases: why it matters

Johanna Lindahl , senior scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ),and coordinator of the ‘ Metropolitan Mosquito’ project shares best tips on how to avoid mosquito bites and keep people away from deadly mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Japanese encephalitis. The...

ILRI vacancy: Research Officer – Livestock CRP country project, Vietnam (closing date: 03 September 2019)

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Research Officer to support the implementation of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock Agri-Food Systems, known as Livestock CRP in Vietnam. This position is jointly employed by ILRI and Center for Tropical Agriculture (...

The Battle to Curb Swine Fever in Southeast Asia

(This post was written by Preeti Jha and originally posted on the Diplomat Magazine in which she interviewed Fred Unger and Hu Suk Lee, scientists at ILRI Hanoi office) ‘Some 3 million pigs have been slaughtered in Vietnam since African swine fever was detected in February, making Vietnam the first...

Issue 6 of ILRI East and Southeast Asia newsletter now available

The sixth issue of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) East and Southeast Asia newsletter is now available. It provides an overview of the activities from January to June 2019 as well as the upcoming activities in the second half of 2019. Click here to read ILRI East and Southeast...

The scourge of antibiotics in animal feed

(This post was written by Aisling Irwin and originally posted on http://www.scidev.net . Some research findings by the International Livestock Research Institute were picked up.) ‘Antibiotics are routinely added to animal feed in poor nations, fuelling superbugs. But new solutions are emerging,...

Publications update from ILRI East and Southeast Asia, January-June 2019

We would like to share with our donors and partners the list of publications of ILRI East and Southeast Asia publicized from January to June 2019. Thank you. Articles in international peer-reviewed journals Hu Suk Lee , Krishna K. Thakur, Vuong Nghia Bui, Anh Ngoc Bui, Minh Van Dang, Barbara...

ILRI research on food safety and One Health featured at the third Global ODA Forum for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Findings from food safety, zoonoses and One Health research by scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and partners were presented at the Third Global ODA Forum for Sustainable Agricultural Development held 13-15 May 2019 in Seoul, South Korea. On the second day of...

Millions of small pig farmers in Asia threatened by swine fever outbreak

(This post was written by Thin Lei Win and originally posted on Thomson Reuters in which Thin interviewed Hung Nguyen, ILRI regional representative for East and Southeast Asia) ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Millions of small-scale pig farmers across Asia risk falling into poverty due to the...