Consortium News Archive for July, 2012

Zoonotic emerging infectious disease events (non-wild hosts). Published In report to DFID by Delia Grace et al.: Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, ILRI, 2012 (map credit: ILRI/Delia Grace).

Human-animal diseases are emerging in the North, have biggest costs in the South–New ILRI study

July 12, 2012

Zoonotic emerging infectious disease events (non-wild hosts). Published In report to DFID by Delia Grace et al.: Mapping of Poverty…

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The magic of the humble lentil

July 9, 2012

When it comes to food security, much of the world is focused on headline-grabbing crops such as wheat, rice and…

desertification affecting some of the poorest and most food-insecure people

Stop the progress of desertification

July 4, 2012

In its Rio +20 Call for Action, CGIAR insisted that Rio+20 actors help restore and better manage degraded environments and…

Farmer Boubacar and his wife Zaina in front of their well-stocked grain store

Micro doses of fertilizer could help poor farmers beat famine

July 3, 2012

Like the other inhabitants of Bokki village, Seydou Boubacar depends on agriculture and livestock for his living. In 2000, this…