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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a…
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CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia
10.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Ag…
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Sustainable livestock systems for sustainable lives
08.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Bread and Eggs. This month, in a new issue of…
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Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.
07.10.19-
Nutrition
All illustrations by Japanese graphic artist Zenji Funabashi. Just in time to add fuel to…
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India establishes separate ministerial livestock portfolio, a sector outperforming crop agriculture
05.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
All illustrations by Bengali artist Jamini Roy, 1887–1972. ‘The creation of a separate ministeri…
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Enlarging on the EAT-Lancet planetary diet report—A fresh look by CSIRO’s Mario Herrero, one of the authors
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Mario Herrero, a scientist formerly with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and n…
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‘Drylands and Rangelands: Harnessing Change’ at Global Landscapes Forum in New York
27.09.19-
Environmental health
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is delighted to announce that a session devote…
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ILRI knowledge management recognized internationally
25.09.19Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, received the Knowledge Management Award from A…
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ILRI researchers propose traceability system for Kenya’s smallholder pig value chain
24.09.19-
Health
A traceability system in the smallholder pig value chain in Kenya could help address challenges…
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A few engineering breakthroughs that could (literally) transform Africa’s dairy systems and food security
12.09.19-
Food security
Antigen biosensor detector on a UV LASER ablated gold coated glass plate (Photo credit: Flickr/Clive…
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Thursday Links, September 2019
12.09.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other…
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Harnessing livestock innovations for greater economic good
10.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, speaking at GASL 2019 (photo credit: IL…
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Scientists test an experimental vaccine against malignant catarrhal fever at ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station
04.09.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock grazing at Kapiti Research Station (Photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu) The annual mig…
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Researchers call for a gendered approach in strategies for community uptake of livestock vaccines
16.08.19-
Health
The design of strategies for uptake of livestock vaccines by communities in East Africa should…
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New review article tackles the question: Can aflatoxin binders in foods be promoted safely and ethically?
09.08.19-
Health
A new review article finds that there are too many issues with using lactic acid…
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Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020
01.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Kenya State Department of Livestoc…
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Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
31.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: I…
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Celebrating World Zoonoses Day with a focus on ILRI’s research on zoonotic diseases
06.07.19-
Health
To celebrate World Zoonoses Day, marked annually on 6 July, we take a look at…
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