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AgHealth blog

The omnivore’s dilemma: ‘High-steaks’ livestock decisions at next week’s Committee on World Food Security (#CFS43)

ILRI Clippings Cattle being watered at the Ghibe River in southwestern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Is it OK to keep eating meat? Or even milk, cheese and eggs? ‘It’s almost guaranteed that this topic will come up whenever dinner table conversation turns to sustainability. Livestock...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

An egg is your best friend: Reflections from Tanzania Poultry Show 2016

The annual Tanzania Poultry Show brings together stakeholders in the country’s poultry industry including poultry associations, feed manufacturers, breeders, and manufactu rers of farm inputs, among others. The event also attracts professionals from both the public and private sector. In 2016, the...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Public-private partnerships – what are the benefits to ACGG?

How is ACGG using public-private partnerships to its advantage? ACGG has been strategically designed to foster public-private partnerships (PPPs). PPPs are at the foundation of ACGG’s strategy to catalyze a sustainable platform for the identification, multiplication, and delivery of more productive...

  • hrollings
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Livestock markets, animal source foods and human nutrition: Considering program tensions, maximizing impact and avoiding harm

Land O’Lakes International Development and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) will host a one-day in-person event in Washington DC that addresses the programmatic and operational challenges of increasing consumption of ASF in rural and producer households through market...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food, Fair Food project research presented at tropical veterinary medicine conference

Serving of fried pork and raw relishes in a pork joint in Kampala, Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Martin Heilmann). Research findings from the Safe Food, Fair Food project were presented at the first joint international conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (...

AgHealth blog

Brucellosis in ruminants in two counties of Yunnan, China and the use of an integrated approach for effective control

Brucellosis (undulant fever) is a zoonotic disease of growing public health concern in many Asian countries. Challenges in controlling the disease include lack of collaboration between sectors and uncontrolled animal movement. In China, Yunnan Province is at particular risk as ruminants are...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

What was the impact of dairy goats distributed by the crop-goat project in Tanzania?

In Tanzania most goat production is extensive and aimed at selling live animals with limited direct impact on food security and nutrition. The Crop and Goat Project (CGP), implemented in Kongwa and Mvomero districts, aimed at improving income, food security and nutrition of poor households by...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Webinar: Closing the gender data gap for agricultural policy and investment

THE GFAR BLOG How can women achieve equality if there remains a gap in the data available for policy and investment decisions? The Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) has the pleasure to invite you to a webinar: Closing the gender data gap for agricultural policy and investment Date: 4 October...

  • Dorine Odongo
AgHealth blog

Improving food safety and human health through agricultural research: CGIAR future plans

ILRI news Tanzanian boy with large jug of fresh milk (photo credit: East African Dairy Development project). A useful summary of the future plans of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health ( A4NH ), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute ( IFPRI ), based...

Maarifa blog

A one-stop shop doesn’t always work: Using different communication and sharing platforms at ILRI

Colleagues at ILRI often wonder: Why do we have a wiki and a Yammer group for our project? What is the point of both Slideshare and CGSpace? Do we really need Yammer? What for? Why not use one tool or platform? Do I need to have all those different logins! These are legitimate concerns that this...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Nigeria sees its first batches of ‘ACGG’ birds distributed

Distribution of improved chicken strains in Nigeria (photo credit: O. Bamidele / ILRI) And so the African Chicken Genetic Gains program gets literally fleshed out in Nigeria. Over the past few months, the chicken strains to be tested in the three program countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania)...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
AgHealth blog

Taenia solium cysticercosis: Risk factors, perceptions and practices in smallholder pig production systems in Uganda

This week’s (4-8 September 2016) first joint international conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and the Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine featured a presentation on results on a survey of Taenia solium cysticercosis risk factors, perceptions and...