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Voices from the lab: highlights of my internship at Mazingira

The natural, physical, and social studies of climate change, the environment, and our food systems are vital to tackling today’s environmental challenges. For young students looking to dive deep into research, gaining field and laboratory experience is essential. My internship at the International...

ILRI Asia blog

Issue 12 of ILRI East and Southeast Asia newsletter out now

The 12th issue of the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) East and Southeast Asia newsletter is now available. It provides an overview of the activities from January to June 2022 as well as the upcoming activities in the second half of 2022. Click here to read ILRI East and...

AgHealth blog

New study explores gendered barriers and opportunities in Kenya’s informal dairy sector

Informal milk trading in peri-urban Nairobi plays a key role in supporting both livelihoods and nutrition, particularly among poor households. Gender dynamics affect who is involved in milk trading and who benefits from it. To better understand gendered constraints and opportunities in informal,...

ILRI Asia blog

Publications update from ILRI East and Southeast Asia, January-June 2022

We would like to share with our donors and partners the list of publications of ILRI East and Southeast Asia publicized from January to June 2022. Thank you. Articles in international peer-reviewed journals Hung Nguyen-Viet , Lam, S., Huong Nguyen-Mai, Dao Thu Trang, Vu Thi Phuong, Nguyen Do Anh...

ILRI Asia blog

Nepal Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development explores collaboration opportunities with ILRI during visit to India

Collaboration opportunities to strengthen Nepal’s livestock sector were top of the agenda when Shri Mahindra Ray Yadav, Nepal’s minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development along with his private secretary, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, visited the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI )...

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AgHealth blog

One Health experts to host webinar on animal health and pandemic prevention

Governments are currently negotiating a historic global pandemic treaty to protect us from future pandemics. The special session of the 2021 World Health Assembly agreed that the new accord will focus on early detection and prevention of pandemics, as well as the One Health approach which...

ILRI Asia blog

Media clippings: media workshop on food safety reporting

Clippings of key national print and online newspapers on the ‘Deliver food safety messages to the community: an integrating approach between researchers and journalists – the case of animal-sourced food’ workshop that took place on 7 June 2022 in celebration of the World Food Safety Day are...

AgHealth blog

ILRI marks World Food Safety Day 2022 with a focus on food safety research for better health

To commemorate this year’s World Food Safety Day (7 June) under the theme Safer food, better health , the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has launched an online food safety campaign and landing page to showcase its collaborative research on risk-based approaches to improving food...

ILRI Asia blog

Tọa đàm báo chí: hỗ trợ nâng cao năng lực giúp giới truyền thông đưa tin về an toàn thực phẩm tại Việt Nam một cách chính xác hơn

Để hưởng ứng Ngày An toàn Thực phẩm Thế giới lần thứ 4 (7 tháng 6 năm 2022), tọa đàm báo chí ‘Chuyển tải thông điệp an toàn thực phẩm (ATTP) tới công chúng thông qua tăng cường hợp tác giữa nghiên cứu và báo chí–trường hợp thực phẩm có nguồn gốc động vật ’ được tổ chức tại Hà Nội vào cùng ngày với...

Mazingira blog

African livestock systems’ emission intensities are not as high as believed and potential avenues to reduce them

Written by Phyllis Ndung’u Dairy cow in a smallholder mixed crop-livestock system. Photo credit: ILRI/Sonja Leitner Ruminants are central to the economic and nutritional life of much of sub-Saharan Africa, but cattle are now blamed for having a disproportionately large negative environmental impact...

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Mazingira blog

African livestock systems’ greenhouse gas emission intensities are not as high as believed and potential avenues to reduce them

Written by Phyllis Ndung’u Dairy cow in a smallholder mixed crop-livestock system. Photo credit: ILRI/Sonja Leitner Ruminants are central to the economic and nutritional life of much of sub-Saharan Africa, but cattle are now blamed for having a disproportionately large negative environmental impact...

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ILRI Asia blog

Nghiên cứu mới cho thấy khả năng kháng kháng sinh của vi khuẩn Salmonella trong các mẫu thịt lợn tại các cửa hàng bán lẻ và cơ sở giết mổ ở Việt Nam

Vào ngày 29 tháng 3 năm 2022, bài báo ‘ Phân tích khả năng kháng kháng sinh của vi khuẩn Salmonella trên thịt lợn từ các cửa hàng bán lẻ và giết mổ ở Việt Nam bằng phương pháp giải trình tự gen ‘ đã được xuất bản trên tạp chí quốc tế Frontiers in Veterinary Science . Nghiên cứu đã phân tích 69 mẫu...