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ILRI News
David Aronson

ILRI at the Committee on World Food Security

Today, the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) Iain Wright, d eputy director general for research and development–Integrated Sciences, gave a short intervention at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) held at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) headquarters in Rome...

ILRI News
David Aronson

The view from New York

The New Yorker recently ran an article on Impossible Burgers , one of several major corporate-backed initiatives that are touting their animal-food alternatives as reasonably good-tasting, culinary substitutes for beef, chicken, milk and so on, but produced without the problematic harms associated...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor

Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a special World Food Day event at the University of Melbourne on 16 Oct 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Lindsay Falvey, chair of the board of trustees of the International Livestock Research Institute...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

New study explores the role of livestock products for nutrition in the first 1000 days of life

On World Food Day 2019, we highlight a recent article by scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute that summarizes the current state of knowledge on the role of livestock products for nutrition, with emphasis on the first 1000 days of life for individuals living in low-income...

ILRI News
Paul Karaimu

Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research

By Saba Ermyas Farmers benefit from ILRI Impact at Scale projects (photo credit: ILRI). Have you heard the saying ‘pilots never fail, pilots never scale’? Unfortunately, research shows that this saying is true most of the time because few pilot projects successfully scale up to sustainable and long...

ILRI News
David Aronson

FAO conference on global hunger to launch

More than 820 million people in the world are hungry today and an additional 1.3 billion suffer from moderate food insecurity, meaning they do not have regular access to nutritious food. Alarmingly, for the third straight year those numbers have risen, despite massive global commitments to reduce...

ILRI clippings
Susan MacMillan

CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia

Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Agricultural development in Somalia—an important commercial centre in antiquity that in 1991 became stateless and suffered more than two decades of conflict and, more recently, devastating drought—is...

AVCD program blog
Muthoni Njiru

Multisectoral partners come together to deliberate on how to accelerate efforts to reduce malnutrition across Kenya

Images from the 3rd Annual National Agrinutrition Conference held on September 24th -26th 2019, Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/ M. Njiru). The just-concluded 3rd Agri-nutrition Conference titled ‘Enhancing multisectoral agri-nutrition approaches for improved nutrition outcomes in Kenya’ had...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

Sustainable livestock systems for sustainable lives

Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Bread and Eggs. This month, in a new issue of the science journal Animal Frontiers , ILRI scientist Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker leads authorship of a paper on Sustainable livestock systems to improve human health, nutrition, and economic status. Sustainability issues...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.

All illustrations by Japanese graphic artist Zenji Funabashi. Just in time to add fuel to the fire of the current meat, milk and diet wars being waged in scholarly and lay media alike comes the latest issue (Oct 2019) of the scientific journal Animal Frontiers on Foods of animal origin: A...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health celebrates five-year milestone and plans for its future

This article by Maggie Bennett was originally published on the CTGLH website CTLGH Principals (left to right) Jimmy Smith (ILRI), Eleanor Riley (Roslin/UoE), Wayne Powell (SRUC) (photo credit: CTLGH/Maggie Bennett) The Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health ( CTLGH ) had a double...

ILRI clippings
Susan MacMillan

Enlarging on the EAT-Lancet planetary diet report—A fresh look by CSIRO’s Mario Herrero, one of the authors

Mario Herrero, a scientist formerly with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and now serving as chief research scientist of agriculture and food at Australia’s Commonwealth, Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), recently gave a seminar at the University of...