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ILRI News on trade

05 Nov 2021

New research offers glimpse into the future of livestock-derived foods

A pork butcher in Uganda (photo credit: ILRI) How will the demand for livestock-derived foods (LDFs), i.e., meat, milk and eggs, evolve over the coming decades? What will these changes in demand mean for the future of LDF production and international trade? And what implications will all this have...

Elliot CarletonPrinceton in Africa Fellow

ILRI clippings

12 Oct 2020

How viable are schemes to give poor people making and selling ‘informal’ milk greater market access?

Artworks on this page: Various Jugs, by Katie Grobler. A new re port from the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) reviews the effectiveness of training and certification schemes designed to give small-scale ‘...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

ILRI clippings

06 Apr 2020

Food—a ‘hyper-local issue’—needs to keep MOVING, ‘from farm to fork’, says the World Bank’s Juergen Voegele

Pablo Picasso, The Soup, detail, 1902–1903. Keep food moving, from farm to fork, in a safe and affordable way. —Juergen Voegele On a recent World Bank ‘Voices’ blog, German agricultural economist Juergen Voegele , World Bank vice president for sustainable development, said that with the emptying of...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

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Publications on trade

Book Chapter

Published2015

Trade liberalization, food, nutrition and health

Book Chapter

Published2009

Outlook on agricultural change and its drivers

ILRI Projects on trade

Nov 2021Oct 2022

Understanding zoonotic risks from wild meat at the Kenya–Tanzania border

It is thought that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated illegal trade of wild meat in parts of Kenya, leading to reports of an escalation in wildlife poaching to sell game meat as domestic meat in the large urban centres in the country. It is also thought that zoonotic diseases can originate from...