Burundi

ILRI Projects in Burundi

Nov 2020Dec 2022

Regional integrated agricultural development project in the great lakes (PRDAIGL)

Objectives Facilitate access to modern animal husbandry techniques in epidemiological surveillance, disease control, artificial insemination and livestock feeding to improve dairy production. Activities Technical support for the purchase and distribution of 3,000 dairy cattle Support veterinary...

dairying

ILRI News in Burundi

ILRI News

06 Apr 2022

Taking context seriously: In the developing world, containing COVID-19 came at a cost only now being understood

ILRI scientists recently published a paper in the journal Agricultural Systems . Reproduced here is the press release published in EurekAlert . In a recent survey of farmers in seven countries of the developing world, up to 80 per cent of respondents reported eating less and up to 50 per cent...

Brenda CorominaPrinceton in Africa Fellow: Assistant Writer/Editor

COVID19

ILRI News

02 Jul 2021

How COVID-19 measures have affected food safety in East Africa

By Florence Mutua , International Livestock Research Institute ; Delia Grace , International Livestock Research Institute , and Erastus Kang'ethe , University of Nairobi Foodborne diseases are thought to impose a health burden on society comparable to the “big three”: malaria, HIV/AIDs and...

Florence MutuaScientist
Delia GraceProfessor Food Safety Systems, NRI; joint appointed scientist, ILRI
Erastus KangetheProfessor(University of Nairobi)

ILRI News

13 Dec 2019

A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development

Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). The board, directors and staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) mourn the passing of a former colleague and...