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Projects sponsored by UK aid

Jan 2021Dec 2022

Global burden of animal diseases

Across the world, livestock production and aquaculture are critical to human nutrition and health. These animals play critical roles in society, providing income and food, but also clothing, building materials, fertilizer and draught power. However, the presence of endemic and emerging diseases, as...

May 2018May 2020

Market Intervention for Nutritional Improvement (MINI)

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...

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...

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...

Evaluation of breed composition, productivity and fitness of smallholder dairy cattle

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...

Jan 2012Apr 2012

Mapping of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots

The specific objective of the study is to provide evidence on where (globally) the risk to the poor from zoonoses is greatest, to enable prioritization of appropriate target locations for research implementation and uptake, based on greatest risk. Activities Expert consultation on already published...

Jul 2010Dec 2011

A systematic review of zoonoses transmission and livestock-wildlife interactions

Around 60% of all human pathogens are zoonoses and domestic animals and wildlife are of equal importance as reservoir hosts. Moreover, 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses and most emerge from wildlife. The objective of this study is to synthesize best available scientific knowledge...

Sep 2010Aug 2014

Reducing the impact of infectious diseases on village poultry production in Ethiopia

Chickens have a high socio-economic value and are important to those (often landless) people who do not own cattle, sheep, or goats. Poultry production is particularly important to women, who often own and manage the chickens and control cash from sales. The resulting income is often used to support education of children.

Jan 1997Dec 2005

Smallholder dairy project

The Smallholder Dairy Project carried out research and development activities to support sustainable improvements to the livelihoods of poor Kenyans through their participation in the dairy sub-sector. The project was jointly implemented by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, the...

Knowledge to action: Enhancing traditional dairy value chains in Assam, India

These knowledge and policy inputs will help fill gaps identified in a recent comprehensive study carried out by ILRI and partners, where organized marketing of milk in Assam was found to be relatively insignificant and traditional (or informal) markets for fresh liquid milk and dairy products...