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The Africa Asia Dairy Genetic Gains (AADGG) project has developed an Android-based mobile application, Dairy Data App, to track dairy animal performance in smallholder enterprises. Supported by a robust and agile data platform, the new app allows registered farmers and extension personnel to submit data and receive instant feedback through user-friendly modules on their mobile phones or tablets. It is

Graduate fellow Sherril Phyllis Masudi and postdoctoral scientist Nicholas Ngwili from the One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre in Africa (OHRECA) were among the finalists at the 2024 World Food Forum Transformative Research Challenge, alongside Samuel Akpan, a fellow with the Institute of Genomics and Global Health. OHRECA is hosted at the Nairobi campus of the International Livestock Research

In the drylands of Kenya, the digital transformation of livestock markets is gathering pace, and contributing to that is a platform named KAZNET, developed by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) with support from the United States Agency for International Development and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and scaled through Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research

Experts agree that the world needs $700bn annually to restore nature, but the funding source remains uncertain, leading to anger over rich countries failing to pay their share. As representatives from nearly 200 countries gather in Colombia for the United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit, funding and distribution are a key battleground. That is why, during the 7th Investment Case Symposium

How do you investigate the makeup of soil which is millions of years old? Dig a pit. At Kapiti Research Station and Wildlife Conservancy, in the semi-arid southern rangelands of Kenya, this means a deep soil pit of 2 x 2 x 1.5 m. Researchers here are studying soils to answer vital questions. How are grasslands affected by livestock and

Written by Rahel Abiy, ILRI Maize, grown by more than 9 million smallholder farmers, has been a vital crop for Ethiopia’s food security since the drought and famine of 1984. In recent years, Ethiopia has doubled its maize production and productivity, although yields are still below optimum due to land degradation, poor access to production technologies, and climate change. To

The Vietnam Agriculture newspaper interviewed Hung Nguyen-Viet, interim lead of the Health Program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and leader of the CGIAR Initiative on One Health, on the concept of local One Health hubs in Vietnam to improve the effectiveness of the One Health approach at the grassroots. He spoke on the sidelines of an international scientific

Thinking beyond human-to-human transmission of mpox and looking at how to prevent outbreaks in the first place is often much cheaper than managing them. One key area to focus on is how mpox spreads from animals to humans, particularly through contact with bushmeat. In a commentary in BMC Global and Public Health (Oct 2024), scientists from the International Livestock Research