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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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ILRI's Jimmy Smith on the livestock controversies holding back greater use of milk, meat and eggs to nourish the undernourished
08.06.21Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), today gave …
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Marking World Food Safety Day 2021 with a focus on ILRI’s food safety research
07.06.21-
Health
World Food Safety Day is celebrated annually on 7 June to raise awareness on the…
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New report examines the impacts of COVID-19 control measures on food safety in East Africa
04.06.21-
Health
Following the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), measures to contain its spread …
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Informal food markets: what it takes to make them safer
04.06.21-
Health
Research has shown that improving the safety of food sold in informal markets can be…
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Putting One Health into practice: A call to action for animal health
14.05.21-
Health
Action for Animal Health is a new coalition that aims to secure greater support for…
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Scientists in Africa explore use of surrogate sires to improve small ruminant breeds
11.05.21-
Food security
In Pullman, Washington, the director and reproductive biologist at the Center for Reproductive Biolo…
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ILRI and partners call for greater investment in global animal health in the fight against pandemics
01.05.21-
Health
To mark World Veterinary Day 2021, the International Livestock Research Institute joined a number of…
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New review provides framework for studying food systems to address food safety and nutrition
20.04.21-
Health
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Nutrition
There is a need for better understanding of how food systems operate in order to…
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Experts call for increased investment in One Health to reduce the burden of neglected zoonoses
14.04.21-
Health
One Health is a concept that recognizes that the health of people is linked to…
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New brief series details aspects of One Health
10.04.21-
Health
A new series of briefs from the International Livestock Research Institute aims to improve understan…
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From waste to wealth: The innovation turning cassava peels into a growing new industry
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To make garri, cassava roots have to be peeled. Traditionally, the peels have been dumped…
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International Livestock Research Institute scientists support Kenyan government to identify SARS-CoV-2 variants
31.03.21-
Health
In the Nairobi laboratories of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the organizati…
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Nairobi is rapidly losing its green spaces: this could open the door to more diseases
30.03.21-
Health
A research study led by the International Livestock Research Institute explored the impact of a…
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Peter Hotez at ILRI on vaccines and misinformation
29.03.21-
Gender equality
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Health
Peter Jay Hotez, an American pediatrician and leading international vaccine advocate, spoke out agai…
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ILRI scientist Hung Nguyen-Viet discusses his experiences with the WHO team investigating COVID-19 origins
19.03.21-
Health
Hung Nguyen-Viet, co-leader of the Animal and Human Health program at the International Livestock Re…
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The One Health research-for-development agenda: Enhancing the holistic health of people, animals and environment
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Food security
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Health
Nephew of a dairy entrepreneur near Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). JIMMY SMITH,…
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New study investigates the governance structure of the Nairobi pork value chain and its impact on food safety
23.02.21-
Health
A new study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science (February 2021) has documented the governan…
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Experts call for global One Health platform to consolidate evidence on actions to tackle antimicrobial resistance
30.12.20-
Health
The World Health Organization has declared that antimicrobial resistance is one of the top 10…
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