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Safe Food Fair Food blog

More on why outright banning of ‘wet markets’ (while ‘giving virologists the heebie-jeebies’) won’t work

Reposted from ILRI News, written by Susan MacMillan Liam Taylor, a reporter for The Economist , recently interviewed Uganda-based food safety experts at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and at Uganda’s premiere university, Makerere, in development of an article about whether...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

How in-kind performance support system is increasing access to high-quality milk in Rwanda

Staff members of the Koperative Amizero y’Aborozi next to a water tank (photo credit: TechnoServe). Since 2017, as part of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and RTI International, the University of Rwanda, and TechnoServe...

AgHealth blog

Experts call on African countries to prioritize food safety in urban food markets

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa launched its 2020 Africa Agriculture Status Report during the African Green Revolution Forum virtual summit hosted in Kigali, Rwanda on 8-11 September 2020. This year’s report focuses on the challenges of feeding Africa’s cities and the opportunities...

ILRI clippings

Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever

RCVS Knowledge, the charity partner of the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has awarded its inaugural Plowright Prize to Professor William Ivan Morrison of the University of Edinburgh for his research combating the cattle disease East Coast fever. Ivan Morrison started his career at the...

ILRI News

Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children

Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tadelle Dessie is one of many authors of a new paper in the Journal of Nutrition with partners from Harvard and Purdue universities and Boston College, in the US; the Food, Agriculture and Natural...

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New alliance for better dairy animal nutrition in Kenya will work to advance ‘human nutrition, success and progress’

Lilian Satia, a young dairy entrepreneur in Nakuru, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). Yesterday (7 Sep 2020) the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and four partners—Bidco Land O’Lakes, Corteva Agriscience, Forage Genetics International (FGI) and Land O’Lakes Venture37—...

Safe Food Fair Food blog

Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is suspected to have originated in a bat or other wild animal, calls are increasing for bans on consuming game meat or selling it in the traditional fresh markets ubiquitous in low- and middle-income...

ILRI clippings

A call for a holistic view of meat eating by Lawrence Haddad, of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Standing Rib, by Roy Lichtenstein, 1962. ‘Eat less meat’ is seen by many as a way of improving the health of the planet and its people. But the issue isn’t quite so simple—at least where the nutrition security and livelihoods of millions of people in the Global South are concerned. A call for a...

ILRI News

Global action needed to fight the spread of African swine fever

RHoMIS survey by Livestock CRP in Son La Province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Tu Mai) African swine fever, an infectious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs, has spread to nearly 51 countries across the globe and continues to wreak havoc with countries facing significant socio-economic losses...

ILRI News

Laughter, the universal language

Author Zoë Campbell at a community meeting with Fulani pastoralists in Senegal (photo credit: Guy Ilboudo, ILRI-Burkina Faso). Written by ILRI gender and socioeconomic researcher Zoë Campbell. If there were no language barriers, what would research be like, I wonder? I’m a gender researcher working...

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New project to improve agricultural productivity in Zimbabwe

Cattle at a livestock market in Ukambani, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). A new European Union-funded ‘Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe’ (LIPS-Zim) project is working to increase agricultural productivity in the country’s agro-ecological Zones IV and V. It is promoting the...

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A new ‘How-To-Do’ note provides guidance on addressing land-use conflicts in pastoral areas

Conflicts are relatively common in pastoral and agropastoral areas, and how they are perceived and handled has a strong influence on their outcomes. Many underlying conflicts are latent – unseen to an outsider, lying quietly under the surface, and triggered by an event or action, such as building a...