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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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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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A no-meat diet everywhere will not solve the climate crisis
21.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
People in industrialized regions like the United States of America or Europe are generally urged…
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Irrigating fodder crops to improve nutrition for animals and people in Ethiopia
20.12.20-
Food security
When livestock are fed high-quality fodder, produced with the help of irrigation, they deliver bette…
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Lancet Countdown 2020 report calls for governments to align global COVID-19 recovery with response to climate change
06.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change represent converging challenges to which no continent, coun…
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One Health in action: Research by ILRI and partners improves the health of people, animals and the environment
01.11.20-
Health
The current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has brought into sharp focus the interconnectedn…
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Community-based training on milk hygiene improves knowledge, attitudes and practices of women pastoralists in Borana, Ethiopia
23.10.20-
Health
Milk and milk products are essential in the diets of the Borana pastoral community in…
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Celebrating Open Access Week 2020 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health
19.10.20-
Health
International Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about open access publishing of…
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Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot
16.10.20-
Health
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, supplies can cross international borders, but the same…
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Experts review policy innovation to improve milk safety in informal markets
13.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A new research report (Oct 2020) by scientists from the International Institute for Environment and…
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Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance
29.09.20-
Health
A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020)…
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Experts call on African countries to prioritize food safety in urban food markets
11.09.20-
Health
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa launched its 2020 Africa Agriculture Status Report…
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The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository
10.09.20-
Big data
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Health
Fun with Lines and Curves by Elsie C. Ellison, 1972 (binding illustration). The IDEAL project,…
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Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children
09.09.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tade…
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New alliance for better dairy animal nutrition in Kenya will work to advance ‘human nutrition, success and progress’
08.09.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lilian Satia, a young dairy entrepreneur in Nakuru, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). Yeste…
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The world needs to learn how to live with COVID-19, says UK public health expert David Heymann
03.09.20-
Health
A 3-D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, developed by ILRI digital communications specialist Annabel Sla…
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Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?
02.09.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Pork sold in a wet market in Cambodia (photo credit: ILRI/David Aronson). ILRI and UN…
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Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do
01.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit:…
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