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Nepal Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development explores collaboration opportunities with ILRI during visit to India

Collaboration opportunities to strengthen Nepal’s livestock sector were top of the agenda when Shri Mahindra Ray Yadav, Nepal’s minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development along with his private secretary, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, visited the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI )...

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Delia Grace wins Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for Research

On 9 Jun 2022, the Arrell Food Institute of Canada’s University of Guelph awarded veterinary epidemiologist Delia Grace the 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for Research Innovation . Presented in Toronto during the 5th Arrell Food Summit, on the ‘Future of Food’, the award comes with a...

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Renowned vaccinologist Peter Hotez on the COVID-19 pandemic—and how a new vaccine can help end it

With the global surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant finally subsiding, many are wondering what the next phase of the pandemic has in store. To help answer that question, ILRI invited Peter Hotez, a tropical medicine specialist who began his career as a scientist with ILRI’s...

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Celebrating the world’s enduring, resilient, nature-friendly and productive rangelands and livestock herders

The United Nations Declare 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists Having a moment are millions of livestock herders worldwide and the many more people who appreciate these custodians of the world’s vast and stunning rangelands—the grasslands and savannas, the prairies and...

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Virtual strategic consultation to prevent transboundary infectious disease spread in South Asia organized by ILRI

A strategic consultation meeting to explore ways to prevent transboundary infectious diseases (TAD) from the livestock and poultry sectors of South Asian countries was jointly organized by the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS...

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ILRI's Jimmy Smith on the transformation of dairy sector in India in celebration of India 75 years of independence

Jimmy Smith , director general of the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), gave a lecture ‘ Insights from the transformation 2072016 of dairy sector in India ’ in celebration of 75 years of independence (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav) of India on 17 February 2022, at the invitation of...

Certificate of merit awarded to ILRI for sustainable development in Vietnam

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) recognized the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) for its dedication to the sustainable development of Vietnam, in a ceremony held on 21 December 2021. The certificate was accepted by Fred Unger, the ILRI regional representative...

Science and technology: a driving force in sustainable agricultural development

(The roundtable discussion was published on VnEconomy Newspaper on 22 December 2021) Drastic changes in the agro-forestry-fisheries sector have been seen in recent years because of scientific research, technical advances, and modern agricultural production and processing technologies. With...

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Making a subunit vaccine against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia to improve the livelihoods of cattle owners in Africa

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) are working closely with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada to identify antigens to help develop a new vaccine for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), a highly contagious disease of cattle in Africa. Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) , the new vaccine is being developed by the VIDO-InterVac and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) .

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Bridging the gap between scientists and the media when communicating about One Health

World One Health Day, which is celebrated annually on 3 November, brings attention to the need to recognize and implement One Health approaches to tackle health threats in the animal, human and environmental interfaces. The One Health Centre in Africa (OHRECA) , which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), hosted a virtual media café ahead of World One Health Day. Through an engaging discussion moderated by Aghan Daniel, CEO of the Media Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture Association (MESHA) , journalists and scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Kenya's Zoonotic Disease Unit , unpacked One Health approaches by broadly exploring the subject and specifically talking about public health threats such as Rift Valley fever, rabies and Ebola.

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More connections: Sustainable livestock opportunities and new food system realities

Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, made a keynote presentation at an Agri4D online conference, Food Systems for New Realities, held 28–30 Sep 2021. The conference was...

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Smith delivers keynote at Tropentag conference

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) was the featured CGIAR centre at the Tropentag conference in Germany this September, which centred on shifting paradigms in agriculture to achieve a healthy and sustainable future. The Tropentag is an annual interdisciplinary conference that...