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ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

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...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

ILRI partners with Odisha State government to support livestock farmers affected by cyclone Fani

(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, scientific consultant, ILRI South Asia). The International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) has joined hands with the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (DAH&VS) of Odisha State, India, to assist rural communities revive...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

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,...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods
Judy Kimani

Unravelling value chains through participatory modelling: part 3

This blog is the third and final of a three-part series on the system dynamics (SD) modelling technique and its use at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Today we speak with Jared Berends, a PhD student from Lincoln University who is researching pro-poor value chain upgrading...

Sustainable livestock systems
Sarah Kasyoka

Adapting the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey in Uganda: insights from the field

Originally published on the RHoMIS blog . ‘I’ve worked with the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) for over a year now, built close to thirty applications, and worked with research teams in over twenty countries. Yet my trip to Uganda last week was my inaugural experience with applying...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

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...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

Celebrating World Zoonoses Day with a focus on ILRI’s research on zoonotic diseases

Taking sheep for disease testing in Bako, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Barbara Wieland). World Zoonoses Day is marked annually on 6 July to commemorate the day in 1885 when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against a zoonotic disease when he treated a young boy who had been...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

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...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

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...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods
Judy Kimani

Unravelling value chains through participatory modelling: part 2

This is the second in a series of three blog articles focusing on the system dynamics modelling technique and its use at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Today, we get insights and challenges of applying group model building in Bihar, Ind ia, from one of our partners, Gregory...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods
Judy Kimani

Unravelling value chains through participatory modelling: part II

This is the second in a series of three blog articles focusing on the system dynamics modelling technique. Today, we get insights and challenges of applying group model building in Bihar, Ind ia, from one of our partners, Gregory Cooper . Brief bio Gregory Cooper is a postdoctoral researcher on the...

Sustainable livestock systems
Sarah Kasyoka

Why rangelands matter, and the surprising benefits of their restoration

Originally published on Landscape News . “When people of think of rangelands, their minds don’t usually go further than the images of shrubs or endless fields of dry grasslands. But beneath and above these vast spaces, life teems and even flourishes. At the recent session on the UN Decade on...