Kenya: Women-Led Farm Initiative Aims For Peace, Prosperity
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CGIAR takes centre stage at international conference on innovations and incentives for agricultural research
The research priorities and value chain master plan of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health were among the topics discussed at an international conference on innovations and incentives in agricultural research, the proceed…

‘Health is not the absence of disease (and too important to be left to doctors)’–Keynote address
At an Aug 2012 Asia Regional Livestock Policy Forum in Bangkok, director general of ILRI, Jimmy Smith, delivered a keynote address on ‘health at the livestock-policy interface’. He described three kinds of health—human, animal and ecosystem—and…

The profits of livestock farming in Nairobi’s slums: Better health and wealth
Livestock products are pretty perishable and hard to move around,” says Delia Grace, a public health researcher with the International Livestock Research Institute. She explains that in developing countries where there is little refrigeration, “it …

Experts call for One Health approach to tackling zoonotic diseases
A group of research experts associated with the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium have called for a system-based ‘One Health’ approach to help catalyze better preparedness and surveillance that are informed by cross-disciplinary appro…
