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ILRI News on markets

08 Feb 2021

One Health: Key to sustainable livestock—and human and environment—health

The header image is a farm couple preparing to milk their cow in Busia, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/ Charlie Pye-Smith). Livestock play multiple roles in the livelihoods of over half a billion people in developing countries, especially in rural Africa. Livestock keeping enables Africa’s smallholder...

Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Officer

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

16 Dec 2020

Research topic in Frontiers to consolidate findings on delivery of livestock inputs and services in low- and middle-income countries

Pictorial representation of part of the species and concepts covered in the research topic (photo credit: ILRI). While the demand for livestock-derived-foods is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), livestock productivity remains low, limiting the opportunities offered by this...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

08 Dec 2020

Addressing Uganda’s pig value chain constraints, the PigSmart way

Improved pigs on a farm in Hoima district (photo: ILRI/Karen Marshall). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is implementing a Uganda priority country project to address specific constraints in the pig value chain. The ‘Improving pig productivity and incomes through an...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

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Publications on markets

Brief

Published2021

Challenges to making producer-oriented fruit & vegetable value chain interventions more consumer-sensitive in Bihar, India

Report

Published2013

More milk by and for the poor: Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value chains in Tanzania

Book Chapter

Published2020

Economics and policy research at ILRI, 1975–2018

Report

Published2019

Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project: Task force and stakeholder meeting report

Brief

Published2020

Tanzania and Ghana Poultry Sector Policy Review

Training Material

Published2020

Five keys to retailers for safer pork in traditional markets in Cambodia

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ILRI Projects on markets

Mar 2019Mar 2022

Feed and Forage Seed Business Models to Support Further Professionalization of the Dairy Sector in Kenya and Uganda

The project aims to ‘Develop viable business models for forage seed production and marketing that assure economically sustainable access to high-quality forage seed to diverse clients’. International, national and local seed entrepreneurs, dairy farmers and national and international researchers...

Jan 2020Dec 2023

Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)

Livestock provides income and employment to farmers, agricultural service providers and others involved in the value chain. Zimbabwe’s livestock production system is characterized by small-scale subsistence farming. Despite the importance of livestock to rural livelihoods, productivity remains low...

Nov 2018Oct 2022

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach

The project aims to improve food safety in urban informal markets in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. While previous efforts have focused on training producers or regulators with little attention to incentives for behaviour change, the project investigates if consumer demand can provide the same...

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