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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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Getting beyond ’empty signifiers’—Food policy expert Corinna Hawkes asks: What are food systems for?
29.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
All children’s artworks on this page are from Artsonia Art Gallery. In the lead up…
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A call for a holistic view of meat eating by Lawrence Haddad, of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
24.08.20-
Nutrition
Standing Rib, by Roy Lichtenstein, 1962. ‘Eat less meat’ is seen by many as a…
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No such thing as waste: full-purpose crops a double boon for people and livestock
13.08.20Photo: From India to Ethiopia, crop residues - the 'leftovers' after crops have been harvested…
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Unite human, animal and environmental health to prevent the next pandemic, says ILRI/UN report
08.07.20-
Health
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives and disrupt economies across the world, a…
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New study examines effectiveness of grassroots dog vaccination campaigns against rabies in Kenya
06.07.20-
Health
World Zoonoses Day is commemorated on 6 July every year to mark the day in…
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New study sheds light on early intensification of smallholder backyard poultry farming systems
01.07.20-
Food security
A new research study published in the journal Animal (24 June 2020) investigated early intensificati…
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Making livestock vaccination campaigns work for farmers in East Africa
30.06.20-
Health
Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute have published a study on the uptake …
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ILRI’s ‘Azizi’ facility is storing samples of livestock and wildlife biodiversity for future research
26.06.20-
Biodiversity
Written by Ekta Patel & Paul Karaimu Cylindrical liquid nitrogen sample storage tanks. Nairobi-b…
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Two ILRI-affiliated postdoctoral scientists receive Soulsby Fellowships for One Health research
24.06.20-
Health
Lisa Cavalerie and Mark Nanyingi, postdoctoral scientists affiliated with the International Livestoc…
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ILRI teams up with research partners to launch CGIAR COVID-19 Hub
24.06.20-
Food security
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Health
The International Livestock Research Institute has teamed up with the International Food Policy Rese…
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World’s largest public agricultural research network launches COVID-19 Hub to support global scientific response
23.06.20-
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Health
Image of the full virion (complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell)…
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Working across institutions and disciplines for science-based responses to fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia
18.06.20-
Health
Ethiopia recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 13, 2020 and the disease has…
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Twitter Moment: ILRI-UNEP explore ‘One Health’ at the Global Landscapes Forum
06.06.20-
Health
“ILRI-UNEP explore ‘One Health’ at the Global Landscapes Forum” Click open this link: https:…
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Celebrating World Food Safety Day 2020: Food safety, everyone’s business
05.06.20-
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Nutrition
To mark the second World Food Safety Day that will be celebrated on 7 June…
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Getting farmers on the phone to protect livestock and livelihoods during COVID-19 – and beyond
25.05.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Continuous collaboration between farmers and scientists is the pinnacle of successful agricultural r…
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The German Federal Government supports Kenya’s efforts for COVID-19 testing
18.05.20-
Health
Scientists preparing samples in ILRI’s Biosafety Level III facilities at it’s Nairobi laboratori…
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The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI
16.05.20-
Health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…
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East African dairy under COVID-19: How is this vibrant sub-sector faring? Join us for a webinar 28 May
12.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Albertina is business savy. Domingos has a knack for operations— together this husband and wife…
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