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Seizing virtual opportunities for CGIAR research in a pandemic

Every cloud has a silver lining – even a pandemic. For months, while the COVID-19 crisis locked CGIAR researchers into their homes, it also unlocked virtual innovation across the whole network. Like green shoots in the sunshine, people across the CGIAR turned towards virtual tools, applications and...

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Four ILRI fellows attend World Food Prize symposium (virtually)

By Timothy Offei-Addo Four fellows from the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) CapDev Grand Challenge attended this year’s virtual World Food Prize symposium from 12–16 Oct. The symposium addresses cutting-edge issues in food security and nutrition and is widely considered one of...

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CapDev Grand Challenge boosts capacity of next-generation livestock researchers to influence decision makers

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) started the CapDev Grand Challenge process to strengthen its capacity development support to individuals, national institutions and partners working in research and development in the livestock sector in West, Eastern and Southern Africa, as...

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Sounding the alarm: The impact of COVID-19 on global food security and nutrition

Jimmy Smith , the director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), spoke on 14 Oct, 2020 about how to prepare for and prevent future pandemics at a Committee on World Food Security (CFS) high-level event . The event, held virtually over three days and in lieu of the...

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Excursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’ working to improve the health of African cattle and COVID-19 patients

ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) Written by Susan MacMillan & Ekta Patel Part 1 For two months at the start of this year, Jayne Raper, a professor of biological sciences at the City University of New York’s Hunter College (CUNY), in Manhattan, took a...

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Moving science events online in a lockdown Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Facing pandemic lockdowns, CGIAR scientists have moved many activities online, including the meetings and workshops that drive much research. In this blog post, communicators from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) share insights and lessons they have learned from holding...

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International Livestock Research Institute becomes Global Landscapes Forum charter member

(BONN, 12 October 2020) – Over half a billion people in developing countries depend to some extent on farm animals for their livelihoods. Animal-sourced food also plays an important role in nutrition, through providing readily-available proteins and micronutrients. But animal agriculture is also...

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Building gender sensitivity into the next generation of livestock scientists

A group of ILRI CapDev Grand Challenge Fellows co-creating a research concept note integrating climate science, livestock improvement, economics, policy and gender (photo credit: ILRI/Wellington Ekaya). Written by Zoë Campbell About 20 research and graduate fellows attended a virtual training...

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‘A vaccine is coming—the question is how soon’

Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty addressed the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) at its latest Town Hall meeting Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine and ILRI patron Peter Doherty discussed vaccines, herd immunity, and policy responses to COVID-19 with Director General Jimmy...

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New study finds that severe undernutrition of cattle increases their methane production

Mazingira Centre An animal trial in the animal respiration chamber at ILRI’s Mazingira Centre (photo credit: ILRI/ Svenja Marquardt). Livestock production generates significant amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for about 65% of the total emissions from agriculture globally. Of...

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‘A chance to reimagine life in a way that creates greater dignity for all’

In a spirited and at times defiantly hopeful presentation at the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) weekly digital town hall meeting on 14 May, David Nabarro, a special envoy to the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General on COVID-19, called the virus causing the disease ‘...

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Global diagnosis – one health approach necessary

The acclaimed Indian novelist Arundhati Roy has written that the ongoing tragedy of COVID-19 is a sort of global X-ray, exposing the weak or broken elements under the surface of the world’s economic and health systems. One of those elements, arguably, is a failure to bring enough financial and...