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ILRI News on dairying

02 Nov 2022

Government and partners celebrate achievements in increasing dairy productivity in Burundi

Partners of the regional integrated agricultural development in the great lakes (PRDAIGL) project have held a joint end-of-project workshop to review its contributions to Burundi’s dairy sector in the last two years. Attendees of the 2–3 November forum in Bujumbura were drawn from the Ministry of...

Saba ErmyasCommunications Officer

AgHealth blog

26 Oct 2022

New study explores governance of milk quality and safety in the informal sector in Assam, India

Scientists from the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) and the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) have published a new study that explores how the safety of milk and dairy products is understood and managed within the informal dairy sector of Guwahati...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

ILRI News

24 Aug 2022

Hybrid extension approach promotes adoption of high-quality forages in Uganda

According to the Uganda’s Dairy Development Authority, annual milk production in the country increased from 2.08 to 2.5 billion litres between 2015 and 2017/18 . But further improvement in milk productivity since then has been hampered by inconsistent supply of nutritious forages between the wet...

Ben LukuyuSenior Scientist, Animal Nutrition
Kevin MainaGraduate Fellow (PhD)
Ronnie AhumuzaResearch Fellow

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Publications on dairying

Journal Article

Published2022

Burden of foodborne disease due to bacterial hazards associated with beef, dairy, poultry meat, and vegetables in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, 2017

Journal Article

Published2022

Milk quality and safety in the informal sector in Assam, India: governance, perceptions, and practices

Journal Article

Published2022

The governance of quality and safety in Tanzania's informal milk markets

Presentation

Published2022

Informal markets and nutrition in Africa

Journal Article

Published2022

Farmer’s knowledge and suggested approaches for controlling aflatoxin contamination of raw milk in Pakistan

Journal Article

Published2022

Silvopastoral systems for offsetting livestock emissions in the tropics: A case study of a dairy farm in Costa Rica

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ILRI Projects on dairying

Nov 2020Dec 2022

Regional integrated agricultural development project in the great lakes (PRDAIGL)

Objectives Improve dairy production in Burundi by facilitating access to modern animal husbandry practices. This include strengthening the country's capacity for disease surveillance and control, accelerating genetic improvement through artificial insemination, and introducing improved and nutrient...

Jan 2018Feb 2021

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation – Irrigated Fodder Development, Phase II

The project aims to build on the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) Phase I work of validating and promoting sustainable small-scale irrigation technologies to produce irrigated fodder in the smallholder systems and help bridge seasonal feed shortages. The...

dairying

Jan 2019Dec 2022

Rwanda Dairy Development Project is implemented by Government of Rwanda under a loan from IFAD. This technical assistance project aims to support improved feeding of dairy cattle across project sites

Aims to provide livestock technical support including use of ration balancing approaches, feed-supply demand work and the use of other prioritization tools including SoFT to the Rwanda dairy development project

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