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Mar 2019Mar 2022

Feed and Forage Seed Business Models to Support Further Professionalization of the Dairy Sector in Kenya and Uganda

The project aims to ‘Develop viable business models for forage seed production and marketing that assure economically sustainable access to high-quality forage seed to diverse clients’. International, national and local seed entrepreneurs, dairy farmers and national and international researchers...

Jan 2018Feb 2021

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation – Irrigated Fodder Development, Phase II

The project aims to build on the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) Phase I work of validating and promoting sustainable small-scale irrigation technologies to produce irrigated fodder in the smallholder systems and help bridge seasonal feed shortages. The...

Jan 2018Oct 2023

Improved Forage Grasses: Making the case for their integration into humid to sub-humid livestock production systems in Kenya and Ethiopia

The aim of the project is to increase livestock productivity in the smallholder farms in Kenya and Ethiopia through the adoption and utilization of forage grasses in the diet of animals. The project also intends to generate evidence on the potential of improved forage grasses in increasing the...

Jan 2020Dec 2023

Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)

Livestock provides income and employment to farmers, agricultural service providers and others involved in the value chain. Zimbabwe’s livestock production system is characterized by small-scale subsistence farming. Despite the importance of livestock to rural livelihoods, productivity remains low...

Mar 2019Apr 2032

One Health for Humans, Environment, Animals and Livelihoods (HEAL)

The project brings together professionals in human and animal health and the environment to achieve better access to human and veterinary health services and sustainable natural resources management. To implement One Health , the project works with communities, public and private service providers...

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...

May 2018May 2020

Market Intervention for Nutritional Improvement (MINI) Project

MINI is one of ILRI’s flagship projects in which the use of participatory system dynamics (SD) models has been applied in the context of analyzing agri-food and livestock value chains. This approach facilitates a mediated discussion with 10-15 value chain actors in a series of focus group meetings...

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...

Livestock CRP; Vietnam

Aug 2018Jul 2021

Building capacity for institutionalizing food safety tracking in African Union member states

This project responds to the need to prioritize investment in food safety in Africa where the burden posed by food safety challenges is the greatest and the urgency for action the highest. The project will develop a set of composite indicators to capture the multi-sectoral nature and impacts of...

Aug 2018Jul 2019

Aflatoxin-related health risk for milk consumers in rural and peri-urban areas in Burkina Faso

Milk and dairy products are a key source of essential nutrients, but they are also greatly vulnerable to contamination with microorganisms and chemicals that can cause illness in people. The high levels of aflatoxins in milk reported in various African countries, with their carcinogenic effect and...

Jan 2020Aug 2020

Situation analysis of food safety control systems in East African Community member states

Food safety is important for the health and wellbeing of communities. Control systems are meant to protect consumers from unsafe products, safeguard public health and facilitate trade. A review of national food control systems can help define where the gaps are and provide suggestions on what needs...

Apr 2020Mar 2022

Overcoming forage challenges in Africa: exploring sequence diversity in Napier grass to fast-track breeding projects at national level

In this project, we propose to capture the maximal range of polymorphisms by whole-genome sequencing of 500 accessions of Napier grass with the project focus on the identification of molecular markers associated with drought tolerance, crude protein content, water soluble carbohydrates, self-...