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Maarifa blog

Social learning – is there any other kind?

Herding village livestock to pasture at dawn, Muchamba Village, Tete Province, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). Meeting and talking where livestock trails intersect has energised learning and the development of a shared culture since people began herding animals thousands of years ago, which...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Safe Food Fair Food blog

One Health to feature at international conference on tropical veterinary medicine

AgHealth The holistic concept of ‘One World-One Health’ in disease prevention and control will be among the topics of discussion at the first joint international conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine ( AITVM ) and the Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine...

  • Kristina Rösel
AgHealth blog

Researchers develop Rift Valley fever risk map for Kenya to aid prevention and control of the disease

Cow in Kenya. A new Rift Valley fever risk map for Kenya will help develop prevention and control measures to combat the disease in the country (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). A new Rift Valley fever risk map for Kenya, based on data from a period spanning over 50 years, will be an important tool...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Mindy Spyker joins ILRI as graduate fellow in the Livestock, gender and impact program

Mindy Spyker Mindy Spyker has joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as a US Borlaug Fellow in Global Food Security for the next five months under the Livelihoods, gender and impact (LGI) program. Spyker is a masters student at the University of South Florida in the field of...

  • mercybecon
AgHealth blog

New research paper reviews the emerging threat of microsporidia, a group of foodborne parasites

Catch of the day, Khulna, Bangladesh. Fish are among the aquatic hosts of microsporidia, a group of emerging foodborne parasites. (photo credit: WorldFish/Yousuf Tushar). In December 2015, the World Health Organization published a report of the first ever global and regional estimates of the burden...

Maarifa blog

Social learning at the AgKnowledge innovation process ShareFair

Social Learning is, almost by definition, a form of Slow Learning ( http://www.euforicservices.com/2010/10/slow-knowledge-and-mck-snacks-at.html ). Yet post-event evaluations generally happen immediately or soon after completion. And, generally speaking again, evaluations tend to be positive,...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
AgHealth blog

Symposium to discuss results on estimates of global burden of foodborne diseases

Testing milk in Kenya’s informal market (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). Illness and death from diseases caused by contaminated food are a constant threat to public health and a significant impediment to socioeconomic development worldwide. To help address the lack of data on the global extent...

AgHealth blog

The Lancet marks World Antibiotic Awareness Week with series on access and effectiveness of antimicrobials

Infographic on antibiotic resistance and what steps the agriculture sector can take to tackle this global challenge (credit: World Health Organization). The Lancet yesterday (18 Nov 2015) published a new series titled Antimicrobials: sustainable access and effectiveness in recognition of the World...

AgHealth blog

Study calls for One Health approach in continued research on potential role of pigs in Ebola transmission in Uganda

Local breed sow and piglets on a farm in Masaka district, Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Eliza Smith). Zoonotic diseases are most dangerous when they take animal and human health workers by surprise, giving the public and disease control officials no advance warning or time to put prevention measures...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Filling up the milk can: Dairy farmers gain from using mobile phones to record yields

By Omondi Immaculate and Absolomon Kihara A collection of mobile phones used by farmers enrolled for the Ng’ombe planner system under the EADD project (photo credit: ILRI/Immaculate Omondi). The increasing mobile penetration in Sub Saharan Africa, where most households now have access to a mobile...

  • Dorine Odongo
Safe Food Fair Food blog

New learning resource provides key evidence on food safety in developing countries

And featuring in FoodQualityNews: http://www.foodqualitynews.com/R-D/LMICs-bear-brunt-of-FBD-but-situation-improving AgHealth A woman milks one of her goats in Ségou District, Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). Livelihoods advisers and other interested development professionals can now...

  • Kristina Rösel
AgHealth blog

Lessons in informality from Kenya’s dairy sector

A typical milk bar in Kenya. Packaged milk in supermarkets has been found to be no better at meeting food safety standards than raw milk sold from kiosks (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). Kenya’s informal dairy markets are central to the livelihoods, food security and nutrition of the majority of...