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Jan 2018Dec 2022

EQUIP–Strengthening Smallholder Livestock Systems for the Future Project

This project sets out to develop the knowledge, skills, tools and products that are prerequisites for future scaling efforts that will significantly reduce gaps in feed quantity and quality, and thereby increase livestock productivity in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. The project has four focal areas...

livestock systems

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...

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

Jun 2019May 2022

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

The global strategy for the control and eradication of peste des petits ruminants has been endorsed by more than 200 countries with the vision of a world free of the disease by 2030. This project supports ongoing global control and eradication efforts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Nov 2018Oct 2022

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach

The project aims to improve food safety in urban informal markets in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. While previous efforts have focused on training producers or regulators with little attention to incentives for behaviour change, the project investigates if consumer demand can provide the same...

Oct 2016Sep 2021

MoreMilk: Making the most of milk

The MoreMilk project aims to generate research evidence on how informal milk markets can be leveraged to improve nutrition and health, especially in peri-urban settings. The overall objective of the project is to improve child health and nutrition outcomes through milk consumption. The project will...

Jan 2016Dec 2019

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program

FTF-MLTS strives to reduce the productivity gaps and expand the volume and value of ruminant livestock produced and marketed by 61,000 households in 31 FTF focus communes in Sikasso, Mopti and Timbuktu. To achieve this, FTF-MLTS is promoting the wide-scale dissemination of productivity enhancing...

Nov 2014Oct 2019

African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG)

African Chicken Genetic Gains is an Africa-wide collaboration led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). In November 2014, ILRI and partners initiated this new collaboration to provide better chickens to smallholder farmers in Africa. Part of the wider ‘LiveGene‘ initiative, ACGG...

Nov 2013Aug 2018

Identifying, testing and scaling small-scale irrigation options for enhanced livestock feed production

Description Small-scale irrigation is a promising route to dealing with uncertain and poorly distributed rainfall that is an inherent characteristic of farming systems across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. SSI has potential to intensify production and reduce risk thereby allowing farmers the...

Strategies for effective linkage of science, policy and practice for climate change adaptation

The challenge of designing effective policies for rural and agricultural development ins sub-Saharan Africa is rendered even more complex by the urgent need to promote climate change adaptation. Specific climate change policies and Programs of Action are being developed, and climate change is...

Apr 2014Mar 2017

mNutrition project: Improved nutrition for the poor as a result of behaviour change promoted by accessible mobile-based services delivered at scale through sustainable business models

This project aims to improve the nutritional status of more than three million people in Africa and South Asia, primarily women and children, by helping them to access nutrition-based agricultural and health information using mobile technology. ILRI is part of a consortium appointed as the global...

Feb 2012Jul 2015

Dynamic drivers of disease in Africa

Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa is an Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation-funded research program designed to deliver much-needed, cutting-edge science on the relationships between ecosystems, zoonoses, health and wellbeing, with the objective of helping people move out of poverty and...