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ILRI News on livestock

17 Oct 2019

ILRI at the Committee on World Food Security

Today, the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) Iain Wright, d eputy director general for research and development–Integrated Sciences, gave a short intervention at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) held at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) headquarters in Rome...

ILRI News

17 Oct 2019

David Aronson

The view from New York

The New Yorker recently ran an article on Impossible Burgers , one of several major corporate-backed initiatives that are touting their animal-food alternatives as reasonably good-tasting, culinary substitutes for beef, chicken, milk and so on, but produced without the problematic harms associated...

ILRI News

15 Oct 2019

Paul Karaimu

Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research

By Saba Ermyas Farmers benefit from ILRI Impact at Scale projects (photo credit: ILRI). Have you heard the saying ‘pilots never fail, pilots never scale’? Unfortunately, research shows that this saying is true most of the time because few pilot projects successfully scale up to sustainable and long...

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Publications on livestock

Manual

Published2019

Protocol to guide the testing and evaluation of innovations for improved value chain performance within the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Journal Article

Published2019

Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps

Journal Article

Published2019

Leveraging human nutrition through livestock interventions: Perceptions, knowledge, barriers and opportunities in the Sahel

Journal Article

Published2019

A randomised vaccine field trial in Kenya demonstrates protection against wildebeest-associated malignant catarrhal fever in cattle

Journal Article

Published2019

Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli carriage in sympatric humans and livestock in a rapidly urbanising city

Poster

Published2019

Occurrence and antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli O157: H7 and Salmonella in the milk and feces of lactating dairy cows and camels in Borana pastoral community, Ethiopia

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ILRI Projects on livestock

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...

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...

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