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07 Jun 2019

Boosting Uganda’s investments in livestock development ‘healthy animals for healthy food and healthy people’

Field visits to Kiruhura District, Uganda [photo credit: ILRI/Sonja Leitner] Today, policymakers, researchers and academics, donors, civil society, as well as government and private sector representatives from Uganda, Kenya and Germany meet to boost investment in Uganda’s livestock. Around 70% of...

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07 Jun 2019

Ekta Patel

Boosting Uganda’s investments in livestock development – healthy animals for healthy food and healthy people

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08 Apr 2019

Ekta Patel

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics – a problem driven by the world’s poor and rich alike

Kibera slum alley (photo via Flickr/Ninara) As reported this week by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel in the New York Times , ‘Kibera residents are prodigious consumers of antibiotics’. Kibera area, one of Africa’s largest urban slums, is located in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of around one...

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Antimicrobial residues and resistant bacteria in the Indian dairy value chain

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Published2019

Regional symposium on pig research and ILRI One Health activities updates Q1 2019

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Antimicrobial use in smallholder livestock systems in Ethiopia

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Antimicrobial Resistance Hub

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Antimicrobial Resistance Hub: A global research and development partnership to reduce agriculture-associated antimicrobial resistance

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Published2019

Antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli isolates detected in raw milk of livestock in pastoral areas of northern Kenya

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Jan 2019Dec 2023

Boosting Uganda’s investment in livestock development

In Uganda, around 70% of all households keep at least one kind of livestock (including poultry). Livestock production is primarily a family business, but only a fraction of the food produced is used for home consumption. Most of it is sold at local markets, which are mainly informal markets...

Feb 2018Jan 2020

Health and antibiotics in Vietnamese pig production

Vietnam’s economy and population are growing rapidly. Production and consumption of animal products are increasing even faster. To manage pig diseases and increase meat production, farmers are turning to antibiotics and other antimicrobials, creating a hotbed for resistance to antibiotic drugs...