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Towards professionalizing—not criminalizing—informal sellers of milk and meat in poor countries

ILRI news Transporting fresh milk by motorcycle in Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Ben Lukuyu). ‘. . . Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partners have developed and piloted an institutional innovation—a training, certification and branding scheme for informal...

AgHealth blog

Reducing human exposure to aflatoxins in poor countries: Towards new technologies and practices

ILRI news ILRI graduate fellow Taishi Kayano, from Rakuno Gakuen University, collects milk samples from a Kenya dairy farmer as part of a scoping survey of aflatoxins in the feed-dairy chain in Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Taishi Kayano). A new paper describes and assesses the strength of a theory of...

Safe Food Fair Food blog

Free e-version of book on food safety in informal markets in sub-Saharan Africa now available

We are pleased to announce that the book, Food Safety and Informal Markets: Animal Products in Sub-Saharan Africa , edited by Kristina Roesel and Delia Grace of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is now freely available online as an open access resource. The book was published...

  • Kristina Rösel
Maarifa blog

ILRI emerging career researchers learn to use ‘paperless’ data collection techniques

Story by Joyce Maru Emerging career researchers (ECRs) at the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) were recently trained to better collect, organize and manage the data they generate during their day-to-day research activities, starting from data collection in the lab or field...

  • Liya Dejene
AgHealth blog

Designing practical ways to help the urban poor make choices that improve their nutrition

ILRI news Paula Dominguez-Salas, above, is a post-doctoral scientist of ILRI and the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) researching gender and nutrition issues in Nairobi slums (photo credit: ILRI). Written by Paula Dominguez-Salas To improve interventions...

AgHealth blog

ILRI’s training program leads to increased milk yield for dairy farmers in Guwahati, India

ILRI Asia Indian newspaper The Telegraph reported on Monday, 20 July 2015, that a program by researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) that trained smallholder dairy producers in Guwahati in Assam, India led to an increase in milk production through improved methods and...

AgHealth blog

New ILRI study finds high levels of aflatoxin in milk and dairy feeds in Greater Addis Ababa milk shed

Aflatoxins are highly toxic fungal by-products produced by certain strains of Aspergillus fungi in more than 40 susceptible crops including maize and groundnuts. Aflatoxins can be separated into aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2. When ingested, aflatoxin B1 is metabolized to aflatoxin M1 which is...

Maarifa blog

Promoting agricultural research – which services do your scientists use?

Image credit: Swansea University Here at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), we have set up lots of platforms to help our research results travel – an open access repository , blogs announcing results , a portal for our data , email alerts and RSS feeds , twitter and more...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
Maarifa blog

Fear of the blank box: why and how to post updates on Yammer, LinkedIn etc.?

Writers fear the blank page. Bloggers fear the blank screen. Many of us also seem to fear the ‘blank box’. What should we write in that Yammer, Twitter or LinkedIn text box that invites us to share a status or update. It’s somewhat strange since many of us have no problem posting updates in the...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Maarifa blog

Ripples of change and winning people over with engagement: Lessons from Africa RISING

Working with the same group of people to support their events and processes clearly presents many opportunities. One of them is that through regular engagement it becomes possible to shift the attitude and ideas of the group and the course of their events and processes. The Communications and...

  • Tsehay Gashaw
AgHealth blog

Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century–The Lancet

In a new paper published on 23 June 2015, the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change says that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of this century, and puts forward 10 recommendations for governments to take action in the next 5 years. ILRI news...

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New journal article presents case studies on CGIAR research on aflatoxins

Working in the maize field in Malawi (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The CGIAR Consortium , made up of 15 research centres, carries out agricultural research to contribute to the global effort to find solutions to the problems of poverty, hunger, food and nutrition insecurity, and environmental...