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El Niño predictions signal urgent need to prepare for Rift Valley fever epidemics in eastern Africa

Orma Boran cattle crossing a river in Kenya. Both cattle and people can be infected with Rift Valley fever (photo credit: ILRI /Rosemary Dolan). Recent climate predictions suggest East Africa may be in line for an epidemic of Rift Valley fever – an infectious disease which can hit people, their...

Maarifa blog

Building a communication framework for CGIAR, the power of the ‘development multiplier’ and ‘KM inside’…

Communication, knowledge management, advocacy, public relations, engagement , it’s easy to lose your latin when trying to find out what this all means and what it all can do for you and your CGIAR Research Program (CRP) or your work generally. This confusion explains perhaps why the first guidance...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
AgHealth blog

Is the empowerment of women livestock keepers the key to improved nutrition? A new study seeks to find out

ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program A woman milking a cow in Tanga, Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu) Written by Alessandra Galie One of the main goals of gender research in the CGIAR research program on Livestock and Fish is improved nutrition. This is also one of the 4...

Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food, Fair Food project partners meet in Germany to take stock of achievements and discuss future collaborations

On 14-16 September 2015, the Safe Food, Fair Food project partners held their final synthesis meeting in Berlin, Germany to share and compile the progress on the pilot intervention studies to improve food safety in livestock and fish value chains in sub-Saharan Africa. We also reflected on the...

  • Kristina Rösel
AgHealth blog

ILRI presentations win prizes at international conference on pork safety

Maurice Murungi, a graduate fellow attached to the Urban Zoo project, receives the award for best oral presentation by students at the Safe Pork 2015 conference (photo credit: ILRI/Fred Unger). With rapidly increasing populations and unprecedented rates of urbanization, the demand for meat also...

AgHealth blog

New book chapter explores how trade liberalization affects nutrition and health

Locally made beef stew sold in Bagnon market at Yopougon, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Informal food trade is less amenable to regulation and may be an important cause of foodborne disease (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). The World Health Organization last month (August 2015) published a book...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Women’s contribution to feeding the world and conserving biodiversity celebrated at Expo Milano 2015

Since 1 May 2015, the Italian Government has been hosting the Expo Milano 2015 exhibition that will run for a period of six months up to 31 October 2015. The exhibition, which is themed ‘Feeding the planet: energy for life’, has attracted more than 140 countries to showcase their technology and...

  • Dorine Odongo
AgHealth blog

Ways forward for food safety in countries bearing the brunt of the world’s food-borne diseases

ILRI news Roadside meat for sale in Nairobi, Kenya (picture on Flickr by Andrew Chipley). This article is written by Delia Grace A new paper on food safety in low- and middle-income countries was published today (27 Aug 2015). The paper is based on a longer learning resource commissioned by the UK...

AgHealth blog

New study recommends continued research on the possible role pigs could play in transmitting Ebola in Uganda

ILRI news The map above shows high-risk areas due to a spatial overlap of three proposed risk factors for zoonotic Ebola virus transmission in Uganda: modelled zoonotic niche, domestic pig distribution and high numbers of people living in extreme poverty; the map is taken from a paper published in...

AgHealth blog

ILRI supports Thailand symposium on food safety, zoonoses and EcoHealth

ILRI Asia The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently supported and co-organized a symposium on food safety, zoonoses and EcoHealth in Thailand. ILRI scientists Fred Unger and Hung Nguyen with Pudji Astuti, Vice Dean, Vet Faculty, University of Gadjah Mada (second from left) and...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Gender in delivery of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccine: Lessons from Kenya

Livestock farmers in Africa face serious challenges posed by pests and diseases which significantly influence productivity of their animals and greatly threaten their livelihoods. One of the most important diseases for cattle farmers in the continent is the contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP...

  • Dorine Odongo
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

New study explores links between dairy intensification, women’s decision-making, time use and child nutrition

Kenyan boy in smallholder dairy household drinking milk (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). Animal source foods such as dairy products have been demonstrated to have great potential in improving household nutrition. While dairy intensification as a development strategy is associated with improved...

  • Dorine Odongo