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The Lancet launches new series on zoonoses
The Lancet has launched a new three-part series on zoonotic diseases (diseases that are transmissible between animals and people). “Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we...
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Position paper by ILRI highlights the role of livestock in food and nutrition...
Typical mixed crop-livestock farming in western Kenya. Mixed crop-livestock farming systems currently produce most of the world’s meat, milk and staple crops (photo credit: ILRI/Pye-Smith). The January...
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International workshop to discuss an integrated approach to controlling...
Maasai father and son tend to their cattle in their paddock in Kitengela, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Brucellosis, also referred to as undulant fever, is a highly contagious zoonotic...
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Experts call for One Health approach to tackling zoonotic diseases
Cattle coming in from the fields in the evening in Lhate Village, Chokwe, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). A group of research experts associated with the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in...
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ILRI presents at international workshop on pandemic flu controversies
A woman sells live ducklings in a ‘wet market’ in Indonesia (photo credit: ILRI/Christine Jost). On 10–11 January 2013, over 50 international experts from science, policy, the media and academia met at...
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CGIAR takes centre stage at international conference on innovations and...
Celeste Sitoe, a smallholder farmer in Lhate Village, Chokwe, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The research priorities and value chain master plan of the CGIAR Research Program on...
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ILRI project on ecohealth featured at the 2013 Prince Mahidol Award Conference
A live chicken vendor weighs a chicken in Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). The experiences of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in using One Health...
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Tracking of free range domestic pigs in western Kenya provides new insights...
Typical mixed crop-livestock farming of western Kenya. Many smallholder farmers in western Kenya are taking advantage of the growing demand for pork to keep free-ranging pigs as a commercial enterprise...
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ILRI project surveys aflatoxin risk in the feed-dairy chain in Kenya
ILRI graduate fellow Taishi Kayano collects milk samples from a Kenyan dairy farm as part of a qualitative survey on aflatoxins in the dairy chain in Kenya. (photo credit: ILRI/Taishi Kayano). In...
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Safe Food, Fair Food project provides tools to assess food safety along value...
Fish on sale at a market in Cairo, Egypt (photo credit: WorldFish/Samuel Stacey). A comprehensive toolkit developed by the Safe Food, Fair Food project is being used by WorldFish, a member of the CGIAR...
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Keeping cows in the city, chickens under the bed: 'The Atlantic' magazine...
Reblogged from ILRI Clippings: Butcher shop in a slum in Kawangare, Nairobi, Kenya (picture on Flickr by Brad Ruggles). It's not only people who are rapidly urbanizing in Africa: people migrating from...
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Agriculture and health experts develop plan of action for aflatoxin control...
Aflatoxin-contaminated groundnut kernels from Mozambique. The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa has identified five priority strategic areas for action towards control of aflatoxins in Africa...
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Meeting report published on plan for CGIAR collaborative research on mycotoxins
On 3-4 September 2012 participants from five CGIAR centres met at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi to share about their activities related to mycotoxin research and to...
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New publication on capacity development for wildlife health management
The 2012 annual scientific meeting of the Wildlife Disease Association featured a workshop on capacity development in wildlife health management. The workshop consisted of presentations, table-top...
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New study links the rise of zoonotic diseases to intensive farming and...
Farmer Ma Thi Puong feeds her pigs on her farm near the northern town of Meo Vac, Vietnam. Intensification of livestock farming has been found to increase the risk of zoonotic disease transmission...
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IDRC and ILRI publish workshop report on global health research and practice
A women sells live ducklings in a ‘wet market’ in Indonesia (photo credit: ILRI/Christine Jost). On 29 January 2013, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the International...
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Vietnam hosts pioneer training course in One Health and EcoHealth
A vendor weighs live chicken for sale in Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). The first ever short course on One Health and EcoHealth in Vietnam – hosted by the Center for...
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New video gives overview of ILRI research on prevention and control of...
A new 3-minute video presents an overview of the work that the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is doing towards the prevention and control of agriculture-associated diseases. This is...
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Food safety on the agenda at FARA meeting on agriculture in Africa
Traders in beef and pork meat at the Xipamanine traditional market in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, informal markets play an important...
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Vietnamese journal publishes special issue on risk assessment in health...
The Vietnamese Journal of Preventive Medicine has published a special edition on risk assessment for health research in Vietnam. The June 2013 special edition is a compilation of over 10 original...
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