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The One Health approach is increasingly recognized as essential if we are to tackle and reduce some of the most pressing impacts on livelihoods and health for people, animals, and ecosystems. While individual health threats may require specific technical skills to address them, responses to increasingly multidimensional challenges like COVID-19, Ebola, avian influenza or the spread of antimicrobial resistant pathogens

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has partnered with a consortium of 16 institutions from Europe and the United States of America to launch a new project aimed at developing a next-generation vaccine against African swine fever, a deadly viral disease that has killed close to 2 million pigs globally since 2021. The work of the four-year project, New Technologies

A special edition of the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems has brought together expert perspectives on the status of food safety in low- and middle-income countries, including the latest evidence on the burden of foodborne disease at national and sub-national levels, with over half of the 24 papers in the edition featuring research by CGIAR scientists and partners. The

Despite ongoing efforts to prioritize livestock development to enhance productivity and improve livelihoods in Son La Province, northwest Vietnam, challenges of feed and forage quality and availability remain key concerns for farmers and livestock sector stakeholders in the province. These are among the findings of a recent study on gender-inclusive feed and forage interventions that examined feed sources availability and

Rural women make up the majority of the world’s 600 million poor livestock keepers, and tend to do most of the day-to-day farm animal management, including the processing, marketing and selling of animal produce in some contexts. The meat, milk and eggs from their livestock are key sources of nutrition for their families, especially when they are pregnant and for

One Health research and intervention outcomes are strongly influenced by gender dynamics. Women, men, girls, and boys can be negatively affected by gender-based disadvantages in any of the three One Health domains (animal, human, and environment health) and where this occurs in more than one domain, the result may be a compounding of inequity. Evidence worldwide shows that women and

On the rolling hills of Gitega, Karusi, Ruyigi, and Muramvya provinces in Burundi, where the vibrant landscape is painted with lush greenery, a transformation is taking root. The Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative in the Great Lakes Region project, renamed and known as Kugwiza in Burundi, is set to improve the livelihoods of low-income farmers through the widespread adoption of innovative

Recent advancements have made studying genes more accessible and cost-effective. This progress opens doors to innovative ways to improve farming and safeguard our health and the environment. In March 2024, a two-day workshop in Nairobi, hosted by F&S Scientific, Illumina and the International Livestock Research Institute, brought together experts in a crucial exchange of ideas to resolve regional challenges in