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Jan 2020Dec 2025

SAFEGRO - Safe Food for Growth

Objecitive To improve the performance of national and sub-national governments in enforcing food safety regulations to meet international standards. The project also aims to improve economic opportunities for farmers and women, as well as agri-food actors supplying safe food, and enhance consumer...

Sep 2017Dec 2022

SAFEPORK - Market based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam

Objectives To developed and test low-cost food safety intervetions along the pork value chain. Main outputs Tested low cost interventions at slaughter and retail (pork value chain); various manuals/guidelines developed; > 500 VC actors trained on food afety risk communications and hygienic...

Jul 2020Jun 2024

Asian Chicken Genetic Gains (AsCGG): A platform for exploring, testing and delivering improved chickens for enhanced livelihood outcomes in South East Asia

This four-year partnership is between ILRI and national agricultural research institutes in the three countries, including Cambodia’s National Animal Health and Production Research Institute (NAHPRI), Myanmar’s Livestock Veterinary and Breeding Department (LVBD) and Vietnam’s National Institute of...

Jan 2022Dec 2025

Improving human health through sustainable value chains in human-animal-environmental interactions using ICT in Vietnam (ICT4Health)

Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, Ebola, rabies and avian influenza pose a major threat to humans and animal health globally. These diseases may have a wildlife reservoir or involve domestic animals. In Southeast Asia, continued losses...

Jan 2020Sep 2025

Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions in Southeast Asia (ASSET)

The Agroecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET) project is a regional project funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Union (EU), and the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM) over five years from 2020 to 2025 in four targeted countries: Cambodia,...

Jan 2018Dec 2021

Metropolitan mosquitoes: Understanding urban livestock keeping and vector-borne disease in growing tropical cities

With over half of the global population living in urban areas, cities are not only crowded with people but also with livestock as well as disease vectors like rodents and mosquitoes. Thus, cities may serve as a melting pot for emerging infectious diseases, including zoonotic and vector-borne...

Jan 2019Dec 2021

Creating equitable and sustainable livelihoods in the northwest highlands of Vietnam through livestock led interventions

This program aims to consolidate Livestock CRP research to date and translate it into a pilot consisting of combinations of integrated interventions. It will generate evidence needed to attract development investment to scale up possible interventions by national development partners. The program...

Jan 2018Dec 2019

Safer indigenous pork and healthier ethnic minorities in Vietnam by better management of parasitic foodborne diseases

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization listed the top 10 foodborne parasites of global concern in humans, with cysticercosis (caused by Taenia solium ) ranked the highest and trichinellosis (caused by Trichinella spiralis ) seventh. Human...

Feb 2018Jan 2020

Health and antibiotics in Vietnamese pig production

Vietnam’s economy and population are growing rapidly. Production and consumption of animal products are increasing even faster. To manage pig diseases and increase meat production, farmers are turning to antibiotics and other antimicrobials, creating a hotbed for resistance to antibiotic drugs...

Oct 2017Apr 2022

Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam (SafePORK)

In Vietnam, pork is the most widely consumed meat and nearly all is sold in traditional wet markets. These markets supply nutritious and delicious food to millions of people. Yet, food hazards are pervasive, food scares common, trust in food low and enforcement capacity weak. Concerns over food...

Jan 2013

Task force for risk assessment for food safety in Vietnam: Operational research to assist policy and capacity building

Activities Interdisciplinary assessment team: The task force brought together risk assessment experts from universities and research institutes as well as representatives from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Analyses of food safety policy and research...

Oct 2016Jun 2017

International Livestock Research Institute