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ILRI News on livestock

22 Nov 2019

ILRI scientist Vijayalakshmy Kennady receives Sushila Pathak Memorial Award

ILRI scientist Vijayalakshmy Kennady (second right) receiving the Sushila Pathak Memorial Award from Trilochan Mohapatra, director general, ICAR (photo credit: Pashu Poshan Kalyan Samiti). Vijayalakshmy Kennady, a scientist working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in New...

ILRI News

20 Nov 2019

David Aronson

Livestock in context: A plea for intellectual rigor and collegial disagreement

Photo credit: ©IFPRI/David Popham Lawrence Haddad, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and 2018 World Food Prize co-winner, gave two presentations at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference held 11-13 November in Brisbane, Australia. The first, titled Let...

ILRI News

20 Nov 2019

Ekta Patel

Building capacity of African researchers in genomics to play key role in boosting productivity of livestock systems

Group photo of students and tutors at the livestock genomics workshop at ILRI, Ethiopia (photo credit: Erik Bongcam/SLU). Written by Ekta Patel and Paul Karaimu The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) recently trained African...

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Publications on livestock

Presentation

Published2019

Climate-smart investments in rangelands: Climate-smart agriculture training for Asia Development Bank, Bangkok

Presentation

Published2019

One Health and EcoHealth in Southeast Asia

Poster

Published2019

The Transformation Game: Using the CLEANED R tool to negotiate inclusive and sustainable vision of transforming livestock value chains

Presentation

Published2019

Pig value chain and African swine fever mitigation: A call to rally cross-program collaboration

Report

Published2019

Review of participatory rangeland management (PRM) process and implementation

Journal Article

Published2019

Urban livestock-keeping and dengue in urban and peri-urban Hanoi, Vietnam

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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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