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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Pro-poor HPAI risk reduction strategies

Driven by the fear of a possible human pandemic, responses to HPAI outbreaks have generally been top-down, heavy handed government interventions. Control measures have centred on stamping out which may entail large scale culling of infected flocks and in-contact flocks and the high concentration of...

Enhancing livelihoods of livestock-dependent poor people through increasing use of fodder: India and Nigeria (Fodder Innovation Project)

It was also premised that scaling up would take place through farmer-to-farmer exchanges and through the dissemination activities of development organisations partnering with the project. However, findings from the initial key project activities in Phase I showed that the issue of addressing fodder...