Red Meat value chain development in Maputo and Limpompo Corrodors (Prosul)

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program

FTF-MLTS strives to reduce the productivity gaps and expand the volume and value of ruminant livestock produced and marketed by 61,000 households in 31 FTF focus communes in Sikasso, Mopti and Timbuktu. To achieve this, FTF-MLTS is promoting the wide-scale dissemination of productivity enhancing...

Development of an improved vaccine for progressive control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

African Dairy Genetic Gains

The ADGG project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and was initiated in 2016, with the pilot phase running from 2016 to November 2019, in Ethiopia and Tanzania. The project supports a farmer-focused partnership that routinely records on-farm performance, and genetic information on...

Fodder markets in East Java: Identifying interventions to improve market performance and quality

Molecular epidemiology network for promotion and support of delivery of life vaccines against Theileria parva and Theileria annulata infection in Eastern and Northern Africa

The general objective of the project is to ensure food security and to improve food safety by developing new and improving existing vaccination against bovine theileriosis caused by T. annulata and T. parva . The anticipated project aims to contribute to poverty alleviation by increasing farmers’...

Improved vaccines for the control of East Coast fever in cattle in Africa

Due to high mortality and morbidity rates livestock diseases are an impediment to the livelihoods of poor farmers in Africa, who struggle to attain food and nutritional and economic security. Vaccines can alleviate such constraints as they are among the most successful disease interventions...

Application of genomics and immune-informatics to identification of genes related to virulence in mycoplasma mycoides the causative agent of contagious bovine pleuropneuonia (CBPP)

Bovine Tuberculosis in the Developing world

The project is a part of a consortium funded by the Wellcome Trust to study Bovine Tuberculosis in the Developing World. ILRI’s part involves determining cattle breed differences in immune response following vaccination with BCG, and following infection with Mycobacterium bovis. Our work will be...

A comparison between local cattle breeds in Kenya in the rate and extent of adhesion of rumen bacteria to maize stover

Current studies on the limitation of ruminant livestock productivity among the smallholder dairy farmers of Kenya have not fully detailed the rumen microbial factors that limit the liquefaction of the insoluble structural carbohydrates from their native structure. The initial adhesion to digestible...

Providing proof of concept for the development of an inactivated vaccine for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP)