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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda
25.07.18-
Food security
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Livestock is the world’s fastest-growing, highest-value agricultural subsector, accounting for abo…
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DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
Since their introduction to Africa thousands of years ago from the Middle East and the…
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Sustained progress made in global work to reduce the rise of antimicrobial resistance—but major gaps remain
19.07.18-
Food security
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Training on standardized and harmonized surveillance methods for antimicrobial resistance in food an…
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Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa
17.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Livestock contribute greatly to livelihoods and food security in Africa, yet they are both vulnerabl…
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Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe
13.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Most rural people in Zimbabwe depend on crop–livestock farming, growing cereals and legumes, and r…
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Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia
11.07.18-
Food security
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Livestock play a crucial role in national development in Ethiopia, accounting for 40% of agricultura…
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Livestock’s potential in Tanzania is ‘huge’—keynote by ILRI’s Iain Wright at the National Livestock Expo
10.07.18-
Food security
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ILRI deputy director general Iain Wright gave a keynote speech at Tanzania’s first National Livest…
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Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India
09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…
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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam
06.07.18-
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The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
04.07.18-
Food security
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Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Women play critical roles in the small-scale livestock systems that remain ubiquitous in the develop…
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The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
29.06.18-
Gender equality
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s…
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ILRI Corporate report 2016–2017 now available: Investing in sustainable development
28.06.18-
Food security
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Rwandan women selling eggs to people visiting the Kimironko market in the country capital city,…
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Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
26.06.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sherpa child with lamb (photo via Pixabay/PeterColgan), London chef Jamie Oliver with rooster (via D…
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Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?
26.06.18-
Food security
Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flin…
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India’s northeast Bihar State gears up to approve and implement a ‘livestock master plan’
25.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Village household scenes from northeastern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Bihar is gear…
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Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever
25.06.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths…
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A better way for vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters and livestock herders alike—By ecologist Ian Scoones
22.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Goat herds returning home at sunset in Namunyak Conservancy of the Northern Rangelands Trust. Kenyaâ…
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