Eastern and Southern Africa

ILRI operates in East Africa with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This page brings together ILRI and partner resources on Eastern and Southern Africa. It shows information on projects, news items, research outputs and video materials as well as ILRI people working in the region.

ILRI Projects in Eastern and Southern Africa

Aug 2020Aug 2025

Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab will develop local capacity in Kenya to carry out laboratory-based animal health research to improve East Coast fever vaccines and diagnostics and conduct social and economic evaluations of the effects of animal health interventions on human...

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

Jun 2020Jun 2023

Management of animal diseases and antimicrobial use by information and communication technology to control antimicrobial resistance in East Africa

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to global public health and interventions to address it are urgently required. The project applies information and communications technology in poultry production to enhance poultry health, reduce the need to use antibiotics and limit the risk of...

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ILRI News in Eastern and Southern Africa

ILRI News

24 Dec 2021

MorePork project creates digital content to help farmers in Uganda improve their pig enterprises

The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (CRP Livestock) in Uganda has implemented the MorePork project since the year 2012 with the most recent phase, MorePork II, ending on 31 December 2021. The goal of the MorePork project is to improve the incomes of pig value chain actors through marketing...

Edwin KangetheDigital Extension and Scaling Specialist

ILRI News

22 Dec 2021

Making a subunit vaccine against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia to improve the livelihoods of cattle owners in Africa

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) are working closely with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada to identify antigens to help develop a new vaccine for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), a highly contagious disease of cattle in Africa. Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) , the new vaccine is being developed by the VIDO-InterVac and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) .

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

ILRI News

09 Dec 2021

BecA-ILRI Hub and Addis Ababa University organize advanced bioinformatics training

A virtual Advanced Bioinformatics and R training series was recently organized for faculty members of the Institute of Biotechnology (IoB), Addis Ababa University (AAU). The training was jointly organized by AAU and the Biosciences eastern and central Africa - International Livestock Research...

Mwihaki MundiaCommunications Officer - BecA

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Latest publications

Journal Article

Published2021

Detection of species substitution in the meat value chain by high-resolution melting analysis of mitochondrial PCR products

Journal Article

Published2021

Tsetse blood-meal sources, endosymbionts and trypanosome-associations in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, a wildlife-human-livestock interface

Journal Article

Published2021

Molecular survey of cattle ticks in Burundi: First report on the presence of the invasive Rhipicephalus microplus tick

Report

Published2021

A regional approach to drought index-insurance in Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) countries: Volume 3—Technical feasibility assessment

Report

Published2021

Qualitative assessment of chicken and vegetable value chains in Harar and Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: Food safety perspectives

Report

Published2021

Field trial of Lablab (Lablab purpureus) genotypes under rain fed conditions in Ethiopia

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