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ILRI and FAO host meeting of regional food safety experts to strengthen...
Participants at a food safety stakeholder meeting held on 24 February 2014 and hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
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ILRI publishes three policy briefs on ecohealth approaches to managing...
A live chicken vendor weighs a chicken in Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). More than 6 out of 10 human infectious diseases are zoonotic (can be passed from animals to...
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ILRI graduate fellow to attend international training course on modelling of...
John Muthii Muriuki, ILRI graduate fellow attached to the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa project (photo credit: ILRI/John M. Muriuki). The South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and...
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New article outlines pathway to develop business case for One Health
Livestock farming in the highlands of Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). One Health refers to the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for people, animals...
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ILRI joint appointee scientist wins Queen’s University Marty memorial...
ILRI joint appointee scientist Natalie Carter and the son of a smallholder pig farmer in Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Natalie Carter). We are pleased to congratulate Natalie Carter, a PhD student at the...
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ILRI postdoctoral scientist awarded TWAS-DFG cooperation visit to Germany
Joseph Erume, a researcher at Makerere University, has been awarded a three-month cooperation visit to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) in Jena, Germany starting June 2014. Through this visit, he...
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ILRI scientists present at international conference on building resilience...
Delia Grace presenting at a side session on ‘Food safety: Options for addressing a growing crisis’ at IFPRI’s 2020 Conference on ‘Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security’ (photo credit:...
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New UK funding for disease surveillance will improve health and farming in Kenya
Tezira Lore:The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is one of the partners in a new £3.6m research project led by the University of Liverpool aimed at reducing the incidence of diseases...
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New livestock maps pinpoint ‘danger zones’ for possible spread of deadly H7N9...
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings: Feeding poultry in Bangladesh (photo on Flickr by WorldFish). A recent paper that maps the global distributions of the world’s major livestock species has already...
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New ILRI report assesses risk of Ebola in Uganda’s pig value chain
Local breed sow and piglets on a farm in Masaka district, Uganda. A new research report assesses the risk of Ebola in the pig value chain in Uganda. (photo credit: ILRI/Eliza Smith). Scientists from...
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ILRI gives ‘one health’ training to support pig health project in the...
Originally posted on ILRI Asia: ILRI’s Fred Unger (back row with glasses) and Jackie Escarcha (second left, front row) with the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources...
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ILRI scientists present at international ecohealth conference
Typical mixed crop-livestock farming of western Kenya. The EcoHealth 2014 conference will discuss ecohealth research under the theme ‘Connections for health, ecosystems and society’ (photo credit:...
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ACIAR newsletter highlights ILRI project on risk assessment for improved food...
Hmong butchers selling pig meat from the indigenous Hmong black pig, recognizable from its thick layer of fat below the skin, Bac Ha, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Jo Cadilhon). The...
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ILRI food safety researchers present on health impacts of aflatoxins in...
Aflatoxins are highly toxic fungal by-products produced by certain strains of Aspergillus flavus in grains and other crops. Consumption of very high levels of aflatoxins can cause acute illness and...
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Arguing the case for massive investments in One Health
Emerging and neglected zoonoses have often been managed sectorally, but recent decades have shown, in case after case, the benefits of One Health management. The growing body of evidence suggests the...
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New studies on MERS coronavirus and camels in eastern Africa published
Originally posted on ILRI news: Part of a large camel herd in northern Kenya; on the outskirts of Marsabit and Moyale, the average distances to watering points run into dozens of kilometres (photo...
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ILRI researcher wins University of Queensland alumni award
Tarni Cooper with children from a livestock-keeping household in Morogoro, Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Tarni Cooper). We are pleased to congratulate Tarni Cooper, a veterinary scientist at the...
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Aflatoxins: serious threat to food safety and food security, but is it...
Aflatoxins are cancer-causing mycotoxins produced by the mould Aspergillus flavus. Aspergillus can grow in a wide range of foods and feed and thrives under favourable conditions of high temperature and...
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Pastoralism: Animal health and food safety situation analysis in Kenya and...
Pastoralism is a farming system practised in arid and semi arid lands by societies that derive most of their food and income from livestock production. About 70% of the land mass in the Horn of Africa...
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Managing the health risks associated with agriculture: An overview of...
Over 60% of the newly identified infectious diseases that have affected people over the past few decades have been caused by pathogens originating from animals or animal products. In agricultural areas...
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