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ILRI News on markets

21 Apr 2022

Press release: New livestock-based initiative launched for better livelihoods, nutrition and gender inclusion in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam

A two-day workshop, 20-21 April 2022, kicked off the One-CGIAR initiative on Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender Inclusion (or SAPLING ) in Son La Province, Northwest Vietnam. The workshop brought together about 80 key stakeholders from Son La province including...

Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia

ILRI News

29 Mar 2022

Creating greater consumer demand to improve food safety in Ethiopia

Foodborne diseases pose a serious public health threat and, globally more than half a billion people fall ill every year from the food they eat. Ensuring food safety remains a major challenge in both developing and developed countries. Consumers play an important role in improving food safety by...

AgHealth blog

08 Dec 2021

Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 side event discusses the role of informal markets within future food systems

The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 takes place on 7–8 December 2021. The summit comes at a critical time, midway through the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition, with only five years left to achieve the World Health Assembly targets on maternal, infant and young child nutrition,...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

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Publications on markets

Report

Published2022

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach―Stakeholder workshop on interventions to reduce damage of tomatoes during transportation and storage in Harar, Ethiopia

Report

Published2022

Dutch Research Council (NWO) Feed and Forage Seed Business Model Project: An evaluation of business models and pathways for commercial production and marketing of forage seeds in Uganda

Report

Published2022

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach. Stakeholder workshop on consumers’ communication campaign in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

Brief

Published2021

Market systems development application in the pig value chain in Uganda: Lessons learned

Report

Published2021

Engaging with smallholder pig value chain actors through multi-stakeholder platforms

Report

Published2021

Report of the pig welfare assessment baseline survey in selected districts of Uganda

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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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