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On 9 August 2022, Delia Grace received the Peter Ellis award for exceptional contributions to veterinary epidemiology during the 22nd International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE), held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Delia Grace is professor of food safety systems at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich and joint-appointed scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute. The Peter

The Tropical Chicken Genetics Solutions (TPGS) initiative and their partners held a two-day workshop on 7–8 July 2022 at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia to document lessons from the program and explore opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of complementary chicken-based interventions. The workshop also proposed business models for improving the performance of chicken value chains. TPGS is a genetics innovation strategy

The Government of Vietnam has recognized Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and Hung Nguyen, co-leader of ILRI’s Animal Human Health program, for their contributions to agricultural research and development in the country. They received the Medal for Contribution to the Cause of Agriculture and Rural Development from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

On 3 August 2022, a workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam kicked off two new research projects—the CGIAR research initiative Protecting human health through a One Health approach and the Korea-funded ICT4Health project. These research projects will help improve human health by using the interdisciplinary One Health approach. The CGIAR One Health Initiative has five work packages: zoonoses; food safety; antimicrobial resistance;

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute and colleagues have published a new study in BMC Genomics (Jul 2022) that describes the development of a computational tool for genomic surveillance of the Rift Valley fever virus that can aid in rapid detection and control of Rift Valley fever, a viral zoonotic disease affecting both humans and animals such as cows,

Informal milk trading in peri-urban Nairobi plays a key role in supporting both livelihoods and nutrition, particularly among poor households. Gender dynamics affect who is involved in milk trading and who benefits from it. To better understand gendered constraints and opportunities in informal, peri-urban dairy marketing, CGIAR scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Food Policy

Since 2017, the International Livestock Research Institute-led project Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam (SafePORK project) has been developing and evaluating market-based ways of improving the safety of pork to reduce the burden of foodborne diseases in the country. The project focuses on informal, emerging and niche markets targeting small- and medium-scale pork value chains. As

The International Livestock Research Institute-led Asian Chicken Genetic Gains project is improving smallholder chicken production by increasing access to locally acceptable, adapted and highly productive chickens in Southeast Asia. Launched in May 2021, the project is making available new and proven technologies to increase chicken production in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the project team has made several