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ILRI News on animal production

15 Apr 2021

Building a sustainable livestock genetics improvement system for a food-secure Ethiopia

The African Dairy Genetics Gains (ADGG) project, which is led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and implemented by multiple partners in Ethiopia and Tanzania, is addressing livestock productivity challenges to improve dairy production in the two countries. To celebrate key...

Beamlak TesfayeKnowledge management and communications expert

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

11 Dec 2020

Pathways to prosperity—Developing-country livestock systems

In low- and middle-income countries, livestock represent much more than food and nutrition. Animals are a source of employment and income and a store of wealth. They are especially important to women, being one of the few assets in many societies that women are allowed to own and manage. They are...

ILRI News

26 Oct 2020

Sounding the alarm: The impact of COVID-19 on global food security and nutrition

Jimmy Smith , the director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), spoke on 14 Oct, 2020 about how to prepare for and prevent future pandemics at a Committee on World Food Security (CFS) high-level event . The event, held virtually over three days and in lieu of the...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

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Publications on animal production

Journal Article

Published2021

Penning pigs: Pig rearing practices, biosecurity measures, and outbreaks of African swine fever in central Uganda

Presentation

Published2020

African Development Bank Livestock Investment Master Plan

Journal Article

Published2009

Capacity building for sustainable use of animal genetic resources in developing countries

Report

Published2021

A guide to developing the small ruminant value chain in northern Ghana: A value chain approach

Report

Published2021

Report of a pig welfare survey in the more pork project, Uganda

Book Chapter

Published2021

FeedBase-Ethiopia: The role of database in developing livestock feed

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ILRI Projects on animal production

Jun 2020Jun 2023

Management of animal diseases and antimicrobial use by information and communication technology to control antimicrobial resistance in East Africa

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to global public health and interventions to address it are urgently required. The project applies information and communications technology in poultry production to enhance poultry health, reduce the need to use antibiotics and limit the risk of...

Jan 2021Dec 2021

Silvopastoralism and welfare of animals in Borana

Silvopastoralism is a form of agroforestry that involves integrating trees, forage and the grazing of domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way. This project will develop site-specific action plans to strengthen silvopastoralism and its value chain integrating management of dry forests,...

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...