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ILRI News on livestock

28 Feb 2020

Livestock and sustainable development: Not so strange bedfellows

A week ago, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the University of Edinburgh’s Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Security hosted a public seminar exploring how and why livestock matter as we strive to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ILRI’s Michael Victor...

Mazingira blog

22 Feb 2020

Lutz Merbold

Where does the methane in the atmosphere come from?

In February 2020 a team from ILRI’s Mazingira Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London and Cambridge University went on a trip through Southern Kenya to sample air. Sampling air may sound arbitrary yet the bigger aim of this field campaign was to derive samples from livestock including cattle,...

AVCD program blog

20 Feb 2020

ILRI Communications

When Participatory Approaches Mess up Your Plans

I never imagined that this man who had brought his herd into this other community’s pastures and flouted the community’s grazing rules, and whose actions had disrupted our training workshop would become a champion of our approach. The Interrupted Workshop I had come to Turkana County in...

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Publications on livestock

Report

Published2019

Tools to profile pig and pork aggregators, veterinary drug retailers, veterinarians and feed processors in Uganda smallholder pig value chains

Report

Published2020

Rapid assessment of breeds and breeding operations for potential interventions on livestock genetic improvement in Son La province, north west Vietnam

Presentation

Published2019

Uganda pig value chain scaling workshop: Summary and next steps

Report

Published2020

Gendered assessment of livestock feeding system in northern and southern Burkina Faso

Presentation

Published2019

Occurrence of trichinellosis in indigenous pigs of ethnic minorities in Vietnam

Working Paper

Published2019

Livestock and water in developing countries

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ILRI Projects on livestock

Jun 2017May 2020

Identifying anthrax hotspots and associated ecological factors in Kenya

In Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa, outbreaks of anthrax occur in certain ecological regions, primarily triggered by weather extremes. Outbreaks of this neglected disease result in significant morbidity and mortality in humans, livestock and wildlife. The overall goal of this project is to identify...

Mar 2019Feb 2022

Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development

This project aims to increase sustainable livestock productivity and improve marketing of livestock products by enhancing quality and reliability of integrated public-private veterinary service delivery. The project also supports the certification of export abattoirs through the development of meat...

Aug 2015Dec 2019

Zoonoses in livestock in Kenya

Continuing changes to livestock production systems in Kenya and elsewhere to satisfy increased demand for livestock products affect the risk of zoonoses and other infectious diseases. The most important changes are the commercialisation and intensification of what was previously subsistence farming...

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