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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...

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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 2020

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-...

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...

Oct 2017Dec 2021

One Health regional network for the Horn of Africa

The project will strengthen the ability of organizations to undertake research through a five-step process: Undertake research capability assessments of partner institutions in the Horn of Africa to assess the current and target research capabilities, propose plans to reach the target, implement...

Nov 2017Oct 2020

The Genomic Reference Resource for African Cattle (GRRFAC)

Current Partners Country Organization Contact person email Senegal Ecole Inter Etats des Sciences et MÃ©decine VÃ©tÃ©rinaires de Dakar (EISMV) Ayao Missohou missohou@gmail.com Burkina Faso Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Ouagadougougou Amadou Traore traore_pa@yahoo...

Jan 2019Dec 2022

Women in business: chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Methods Study of existing breed dissemination pathways; develop and test women-led business models to disseminate chicks to farmers in remote areas; engage in gender responsive and transformative approaches; assess impact on women’s empowerment and on nutrition. Expected impact Women’s empowerment...

On Farm- Feed Advisor

On-farm Feed Advisor Tool The On-farm Feed Advisor (OFA) app is a mobile based tool that can be used by extension agents to balance nutrients in the diet of dairy cattle and buffaloes by entering some basic data. Generally, farmers feed their livestock with what is available in their farm in the...