Tags: markets

ILRI News on markets

30 Jun 2020

Using virtual communication tools to support northern Kenya partners during the COVID-19 pandemic

An aerial view of the Oldonyiro Livestock Market in Isiolo County (photo credit: USAID/Mwangi Kirubi). Update from the livestock component of the AVCD program Over the last three months (April – June), the livestock value chain (LVC) team of the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI News

10 Jun 2020

The power of ideas: New ways of thinking about gender can improve development outcomes

What does it mean to take gender seriously in development—and specifically in agriculture and livestock development? How can the international community promote economic development in ways that are both culturally sensitive and substantively equitable? What kinds of power are available to women in...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

ILRI clippings

07 Jun 2020

FOOD SAFETY: In support the traditional—and essential—food markets of low-income countries

Selling pork at a traditional ‘wet’ market in northern Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/HUPH/Ngan Tran) On this World Food Safety Day (7 June 2020), staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) make the case for supporting traditional markets to improve food safety. Food safety has...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

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Publications on markets

Brief

Published2020

Can trade preferences stimulate sectoral development? The case of Namibian and Botswanan beef exports to Norway

Brief

Published2020

Safe food, fair food for Cambodia project: Summary of achievements and intervention plans to improve pork and poultry safety in traditional markets

Video

Published2020

Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam

Report

Published2020

Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia: Intervention design stakeholder workshop

Report

Published2020

Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project: Training of trainers on good hygiene practices for safer pork in traditional markets

Brochure

Published2020

MoreMilk project: Safer milk, more sales, healthier children

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ILRI Projects on markets

Sep 2017Dec 2019

Facilitating Value Addition and Processing in the Context of the Cassava, Maize, Banana, Vegetable and Livestock Value Chains(PRODEMA) Activities to support the Milk Value Chain

This phase of the Project (PRODEMA II) is concerned with value addition, developing markets, demonstration and upscaling of new technologies for dairy, cassava, banana, fruits and vegetables and improving human nutrition along these value chains.

Nov 2017Oct 2020

TAAT livestock compact

Livestock supports the livelihood of about 1.3 billion people in developing countries and contributes up to 30 per cent of the agriculture Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly through the provision of meat, milk, eggs, wool and hides and skins. Demand for...

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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