An opinion piece by Klara Saville, head of global animal health at Brooke, and Delia Grace Randolph, professor of food safety systems at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich and joint-appointed scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute, draws attention to a recent outbreak of avian influenza across multiple continents. Animal disease experts have warned that the
A central focus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)’s One Health work in Africa is the improvement of research infrastructure and capacity. In Kenya, ILRI has worked to achieve this by developing partnerships with local governments and communities while also establishing new field-based laboratories in the country’s project areas. These efforts have helped foster a collaborative and multisectoral One
Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate change and other global health challenges of the 21st century, according to a new research study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Jan 2022). The study presents a synthesis of the 22nd Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium held in June 2021 entitled ‘Global Food Systems and
The role of food crops as a conduit for transmission of antimicrobial resistance from soil and water to humans has not been widely studied. Contamination of food crops with antimicrobial-resistant pathogens presents an added foodborne risk to human health. A scoping review published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (3 Feb 2022) consolidates the current state of knowledge on antimicrobial
The pig production sector in Rwanda is growing rapidly as a result of rising local and regional demand for pork. To better understand how the sector operates, a new study has analysed the country’s pig and pork value chains to map the various actors involved, the governance and sanitary risks and the potential impacts on food safety. The study, which
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) published its 2020 annual report on activities and accomplishments from its five research flagships: food systems for healthier diets; biofortification; food safety; supporting policies, programs, and enabling action through research; and improving human health. Noting that the year 2020 was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, A4NH director John McDermott
The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 took place on 7–8 December 2021. Ahead of the summit, on 2 December 2021, the International Institute for Environment and Development and the International Livestock Research Institute hosted a side event on the role of informal markets within future food systems. The purpose of the side event was to derive a set of principles to
International Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event that is marked globally during the last full week of October to raise awareness about open access publishing of research and scholarly outputs to enable their universal online accessibility. The theme of Open Access Week 2021 (25 to 31 Oct) is ‘It matters how we open knowledge: Building structural equity’.