COVID19

ILRI News on COVID19

Excursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’ working to improve the health of African cattle and COVID-19 patients

ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) Written by Susan MacMillan & Ekta Patel Part 1 For two months at the start of this year, Jayne Raper, a professor of biological sciences at the City University of New York’s Hunter College (CUNY), in Manhattan, took a...

COVID-19 and the livestock sector: A wake-up call to optimize sustainable livestock production

Written by Cynthia Mugo How do we optimize livestock production systems to meet a growing global demand for food and nutritional security in economic, social and environmentally sustainable ways? This question was asked of participants who attended a virtual meeting for anglophone Africa livestock...

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Publications on COVID19

Published2020

Resilient food and agriculture systems in Kenya within the COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges (focus on livestock)

Published2020

COVID-19 and the beef and dairy sector in Colombia: Current and potential developments, impacts and mitigation options

Journal Article

Published2020

Spatio-temporal mutational profile appearances of Swedish SARS-CoV-2 during the early pandemic

Journal Article

Published2020

Africa’s nomadic pastoralists and their animals are an invisible frontier in pandemic surveillance

Journal Article

Published2020

COVID-19—a very visible pandemic

Journal Article

Published2020

Moving health to the heart of agri-food policies; mitigating risk from our food systems

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