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Open-access Knowledge Bank tackles malnutrition
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management Adequate nutrition, particularly in the first 1,000 days of life, is critical to both physical and mental development and long-term health. Poor...
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Unpacking the tensions between the nutritional and economic goals of pro-poor...
ILRI news ILRI’s Delia Grace (left) and Shirley Tarawali (right), made two of the three presentations at the second of a four-part series of meetings-cum-webinars on enhancing nutrition through...
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Global research experts launch Lancet Countdown to track health impacts of...
A new international, multidisciplinary research initiative, the Lancet Countdown, was launched yesterday (14 Nov 2016) to track and analyse the impacts of climate change on public health. The...
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ILRI scientist receives honorary professorship at Hanoi University of Public...
Hung Nguyen-Viet (right) receives his award of honorary professor at the Hanoi University of Public Health. Also pictured are Le Nhan Tuan, Director of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Center of Hanoi (left)...
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An ‘urban zoo’ project in Kenya is helping unpack the spread of disease in...
ILRI Clippings A woman sorts through a heap of garbage at the Dandora dumping site among other people, cattle, pigs and storks, in Nairobi (photo credit: Simon Maina / AFP / Getty Images). Written by...
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What stops greater consumption of meat, milk and eggs in low-income areas of...
ILRI news Kenyan boy drinking milk (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). A new research paper by scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partner organizations confirms...
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One Health, many tools for forecasting climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam
ILRI Asia Nobody likes getting sick. However, climate change, like higher temperatures, heavier rainfall and higher humidity, is already a given, and diseases highly sensitive to such changes would...
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ILRI scientist receives international award for ecohealth research
Hung Nguyen-Viet (left) receives the 2016 International Association for Ecology and Health (IEAH) ‘Exceptional Early Career Contribution to the Field of EcoHealth’ award from former IEAH president...
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Can the livestock sector find the elusive ‘win-win’ on drug resistance?
A livestock health worker prescribes drugs to a dairy farmer in Bangladesh (photo credit: IFPRI/Akram Ali, CARE Bangladesh). An opinion piece by International Livestock Research Institute veterinary...
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Agrilinks and Microlinks to host webinar on safety of animal-source foods for...
Locally made beef stew sold in Bagnon market at Yopougon, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). What are the key food safety issues related to livestock production and...
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New Nutrition Knowledge Bank gives direct access to expert nutritional advice...
ILRI news Tanzanian woman on her cell phone (photo credit: CCAFS/Cecilia Schubert). A new open-access Nutrition Knowledge Bank has been created as part of a GSMA mNutrition initiative to help tackle...
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A deep dive inside Vietnam’s pork foodshed to determine food safety issues...
ILRI news Selling pork at a traditional ‘wet’ market in Hung Yen province, northern Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/HUPH/Ngan Tran). Pork meat sold in Vietnam has been found by researchers to commonly...
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Vietnam launches report on better managing risks to food safety
ILRI news Cover of the new World Bank food safety in Vietnam report: Please check back here in another three days to get a link to the report online. This post is written by Chi Nguyen, communications...
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New FAO report discusses options for influencing food environments for...
A man works in his vegetable field on the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Anna Fawcus). A new publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...
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Join our webinar! Designing projects for improving nutrition through animal...
ILRI Clippings The following announcement comes from Jennie Lane, animal health and livelihoods technical advisor for Land O’Lakes International Development. Land O’Lakes International Development and...
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Africa must take the lead in addressing global health challenges
zimbabweland Credit: ILRI/Niels Teufel, Tanzania, 2014 The new Director General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is a former minister of health in Ethiopia. Africa – at...
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Experts from Canada and India discuss latest developments in India’s pig...
A woman feeds her pigs in Nagaland, India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works with various partner organizations in northeast India on...
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USAID to host two-day online discussion on food safety research in developing...
Fresh produce on sale in a local market in Malawi (photo credit: IFPRI). The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will hold a two-day online AgExchange on food safety beginning...
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Workshop identifies strategies to improve food safety in low and middle...
Selling agricultural produce at Chimbiya Market, near Dedza in central Malawi (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). On 24 May 2017, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and...
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Animal health needs partnerships for vaccine delivery: Lessons from global...
Cattle being watered at the Ghibe River in southwestern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The successful eradication of rinderpest in 2011 offers vital lessons that can be applied in the...
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