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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI Forage Genebank in Jan…
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(Enteric methane) greenhouse gas emissions in cows are cut 25% with feed supplement (3-NOP)
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions…
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Viral flash points? Poor urban settlements are highly vulnerable to the risk of the new coronavirus
27.02.20-
Health
Scene in Nairobi’s low-income Kibera settlement (photo credit: David Orgel/Flickr). A new guest bl…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Addressing Africa’s deteriorating food security should be Africa’s top priority—World Bank
31.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
‘A key priority for Africa over the next decade should be to address a deteriorating…
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How a deadly outbreak unveiled the key to safer food
30.01.20-
Health
A recent article by Nancy Averett in Scientific African Magazine discusses how incidents of food…
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Conservation agriculture is helping farmers adapt to climate change: Lessons from southern Africa
29.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Christian Thierfelder, senior cropping systems agronomist at the International Maize and Wheat Impro…
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Can a vaccine save the world’s pigs from African swine fever?
29.01.20-
Health
A recent article by Katarina Zimmer in The Scientist examines how close we are to…
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On vegan diets and brain nutrients—some unsettling research reports in a (surprisingly) still murky research area
28.01.20-
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Nutrition
Meat and Eggs, by Felix Vallotton, 1918 (via Wikiart). The vegan diet is low in—or,…
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What changes in temperature mean for Africa’s tsetse fly
20.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Tsetse flies can pass on African sleeping sickness (photo credit: Shutterstock). Elisha Bayode Are, …
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The meat wars: A backlash is occurring on the backlash to meat dietary recommendations published late last year
16.01.20-
Nutrition
Roy Lichenstein, Standing Rib (via Wikiart). On 19 Nov 2019, guidelines were published in the…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Food security
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people
10.01.20-
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Nutrition
A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously…
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Livestock story-telling at ILRI—Part 2: Ekta Patel, Maasai ‘Fly Girl’
10.01.20Ekta Patel (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The 2019 institutional program meeting of the Internat…
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Livestock story-telling at ILRI—Part 1: Introduction, ‘Descending into the particular’
09.01.20St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. The 2019 institutional program meeting of the…
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As United States marks January as ‘National One Health Awareness Month’, public, veterinary and environmental health in Africa is bolstered by the start of a new ‘One Health’ centre
08.01.20-
Health
Menz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet) Each year, an International One Health Day is ce…
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Two animated shorts on practical steps to improve animal welfare and reduce drug resistance in poor countries
06.01.20-
Health
Start this new year (and decade) right. Watch these two little animated films for practical…
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