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ILRI News on BUILD

31 Mar 2021

BUILD’s Velma Kivali wins ‘Women in Livestock Research’ category in the 2021 CapDev Grand Challenge

Velma Kivali is a PhD fellow with the Building Uganda’s Investment in Livestock Development (BUILD) program. She was announced winner of the ‘Women in Livestock Research’ category at the 2021 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) CapDev Grand Challenge on 16 March 2021. The CapDev Grand...

Pamela WairagalaCommunications and Knowledge Management Senior Officer

ILRI News

29 Sep 2020

‘Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development’ (BUILD) project to hold virtual stakeholder consultation this week

‘Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development’— BUILD , for short— is a five-year research-for-development project led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and funded by the German government through the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)...

Kristina RoeselScientist, Animal and human health

ILRI News

02 Jun 2020

Expanding capacity for participatory disease surveillance in Uganda

Uganda field work in Bugiri using proportional piling to assess disease mobility and mortality in livestock (photo credit: ILRI) . This article was written by Ekta Patel and edited by Paul Karaimu In an effort to support animal disease surveillance in Uganda, Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF)...

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

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ILRI Projects on BUILD

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...