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ILRI News on value chains

17 Jul 2022

A livestock master plan is produced for India's Odisha State

The following is a foreword by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), to a new ILRI report, Odisha Livestock Master Plan 2022/23–2026/27 . 'The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners have, since 2013, provided technical...

Jimmy SmithDirector general
Enock ChikavaAgriculture development interim director(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Shri R. Raghu PrasadIFS principal secretary, Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Department(Government of Odisha)

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27 Jun 2022

From national to local level: Leveraging SafePORK impacts on food safety in Vietnam

Since 2017, the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI )-led ‘Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam’ or SafePORK project has been developing and evaluating market-based ways of improving the safety of food to reduce the burden of food-borne diseases in the...

Le Thi Thanh Huyen(National Institute of Animal Sciences)
Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia
Fred UngerVeterinary Epidemiologist & senior scientist

ILRI News

27 Jun 2022

Genetic gains research to transform smallholder chicken farming in Southeast Asia

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led Asian Chicken Genetic Gains , or AsCGG, project is improving smallholder chicken production by increasing access to locally acceptable, adapted and highly productive chickens in Southeast Asia. Launched in May 2021, AsCGG is funded by the...

Ngo Thi Kim CucDeputy director(National Institute of Animal Sciences)
HOANG HOAResearch Project Coordinator
Fred UngerVeterinary Epidemiologist & senior scientist
Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia
Tadelle DessiePrincipal Scientist - Animal Genetics/Breeding

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Publications on value chains

Book Chapter

Published2016

Sheep are like fast-growing cabbage: Gender dimensions of small ruminant health in Ethiopia

Book Chapter

Published2016

Gender-equitable pig business hubs in Uganda

Book Chapter

Published2016

Getting by in the dry season: Ololilis in Tanzania

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ILRI Projects on value chains

Jan 2021Dec 2023

Inclusive red meat value chains for women and youth in Eastern and Southern Africa (K'LUSA)

Most rural households in Zimbabwe and Malawi depend on smallholder agriculture and livestock husbandry to meet food and nutritional security goals and improve their livelihoods. However, due to the low level of public and private investment in the livestock sector, livestock-keeping households...

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...

Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches

Project goal The overall goal of the project is to improve pastoral livelihoods through sustainable market systems. The project aims to promote pastoral livelihoods diversification, facilitate robust markets for livestock and livestock products and enhance consolidation of knowledge base to enhance...

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value chains

ILRI News on value chains

A livestock master plan is produced for India's Odisha State

From national to local level: Leveraging SafePORK impacts on food safety in Vietnam

Genetic gains research to transform smallholder chicken farming in Southeast Asia

Publications on value chains

Adding gender transformation into value chain analysis

Dairy value chains in East Africa: Why so few women?

The gender dimensions of a pig disease: African swine fever in Uganda

Sheep are like fast-growing cabbage: Gender dimensions of small ruminant health in Ethiopia

Gender-equitable pig business hubs in Uganda

Getting by in the dry season: Ololilis in Tanzania

ILRI Projects on value chains

Inclusive red meat value chains for women and youth in Eastern and Southern Africa (K'LUSA)

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

Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches