Tags: animal health

ILRI News on animal health

12 Jun 2019

Africa’s animal genetic resources – the wealth within

Ankole cattle from southwestern Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Today, more than a hundred key partners in African livestock development, including African ministers, senior policymakers and other dignitaries, have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch new and notable products that improve...

ILRI News

07 Jun 2019

Ekta Patel

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...

ILRI News

07 Jun 2019

Ekta Patel

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

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Publications on animal health

Brief

Published2019

A market scoping study for porcine cysticercosis vaccine calls for a one-health approach to sustain the control of the disease in Uganda

Poster

Published2018

Eradication of human African trypanosomiasis? Don't forget the pigs!

Journal Article

Published2019

Seroprevalence of hemorrhagic septicemia in dairy cows in Assam, India

Journal Article

Published2019

Current situations of animal data recording, dairy improvement infrastructure, human capacity and strategic issues affecting dairy production in sub-Saharan Africa

Brochure

Published2019

Animal and human health program

Presentation

Published2019

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

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ILRI Projects on animal health

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...

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...

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