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Reflections on food safety and risk perception
Bird’s-eye view of a colourful food market in Western Bengal, where 70% of people depend on agriculture (photo credit: Krishnasis Ghosh/Bioversity International). In a recent blog post (11 April)...
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On more rigorous informed consent in One Health cross-cultural livestock...
ILRI Clippings ILRI poster prepared by Tarni Cooper (concept and text), James Wakhungu (translation) and Timothy Hall (cartoons and design) as part of a What Is Killing My Cow? project in Tanzania....
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Zoonotic diseases featured during UNEP Science-Policy Forum
ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Delia Grace presenting at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Science-Policy Forum that preceded the second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly...
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Research on local technologies to improve dairy hygiene in Côte d’Ivoire...
Safe Food, Fair Food Man selling raw milk along the railway tracks in Abobo, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (photo credit: CSRS/ILRI/Sylvie Mireille Kouamé-Sina). Interventions to improve food safety and...
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ILRI shares ongoing research on ensuring food safety in Vietnam at Hanoi...
ILRI Asia During the plenary session of the Vietnam Agricultural Outlook Conference 2016 (photo credit: ILRI/Hung Nguyen) An agricultural conference that discussed ways to strengthen Vietnam’s...
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Pandemic proofing the world: View point on tackling emerging zoonotic diseases
An Ethiopian woman breeds sheep for a living (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). On the matter of global health and tackling the looming threat of emerging infectious disease pandemics, Delia Grace,...
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High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition launches...
ILRI news A High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) is the science-policy interface of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is, at the global level, the foremost...
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Aligned to improve nutrition and health: Announcing A4NH 2015 annual report
Herding sheep in Menz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). With four successful years completed in 2015, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) is excited...
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Connecting the dots: Actionable recommendations towards safer pork and leafy...
ILRI Asia The consultation workshop towards safer pork and vegetables in Vietnam was held on 27 July 2016 in Hanoi (photo credit: ILRI). Responsiveness to citizens’ needs and demands is an indicator...
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Apocalyptic numbers: Antibiotic resistance as the classic ‘One Health’ (and...
ILRI news Depicted in this watercoloured etching, The Ancient of Days, by William Blake, is Urizen, a figure that for Blake embodied reason and law. Urizen’s outstretched hand holds a compass over...
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Study identifies options to improve milk quality in smallholder dairy value...
Testing the quality of raw milk in Kenya’s informal market. A new study has identified options that could help improve milk quality in Zambia’s Western Province (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth)....
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ILRI sponsors special journal issue on aflatoxins in eastern Africa
Aflatoxin-contaminated groundnut kernels from Mozambique (photo credit: IITA). A special issue of the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) published in July 2016 and...
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On better water use and reuse: ‘One Water, One Health’ panel at Singapore...
ILRI Asia ILRI’s Hung Nguyen (second from left) participated in the ‘One Water, One Health’ panel at the 2016 Singapore International Water Week (photo credit: ILRI). A global water management event...
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South–South exchanges on One Health/EcoHealth: Capacity-building practices in...
ILRI Asia ILRI scientists Hung Nguyen and Johanna Lindahl (fifth and sixth from right) at a One Health/EcoHealth seminar on capacity building in India (photo credit: Public Health Foundation in...
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World Water Week seminar highlights the role of livestock in sustainable...
Fishermen and Sahelian goats by the Niger River, in Segou, Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). World Water Week in Stockholm is organized annually by the Stockholm International Water Institute and...
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Taenia solium cysticercosis: Risk factors, perceptions and practices in...
This week’s Joint International Conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and the Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine featured a presentation on Taenia solium...
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Improving food safety and human health through agricultural research: CGIAR...
ILRI news Tanzanian boy with large jug of fresh milk (photo credit: East African Dairy Development project). A useful summary of the future plans of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for...
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Brucellosis in ruminants in two counties of Yunnan, China and the use of an...
Brucellosis (undulant fever) is a zoonotic disease of growing public health concern in many Asian countries. Challenges in controlling the disease include lack of collaboration between sectors and...
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Safe Food, Fair Food project research presented at tropical veterinary...
Safe Food, Fair Food Serving of fried pork and raw relishes in a pork joint in Kampala, Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Martin Heilmann). Research findings from the Safe Food, Fair Food project were...
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The omnivore’s dilemma: ‘High-steaks’ livestock decisions at next week’s...
ILRI Clippings Cattle being watered at the Ghibe River in southwestern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Is it OK to keep eating meat? Or even milk, cheese and eggs? ‘It’s almost guaranteed...
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