Monthly Archives: June 2014

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Moses Osiru pitches his integrated approach to aflatoxins On 23 and 24 September, the CGIAR Science Forum 2013 on ‘Nutrition and health outcomes: targets for agricultural research’ featured a parallel session on food safety. It was…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Welcome to AgHealth, the website of the agriculture-associated diseases component of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) leads the research activities under this component. In addition to…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Delia Grace speaks on zoonoses at a ‘Livestock live’ talk at the Nairobi headquarters of the International Livestock Research Institute on 31 October 2012 (photo credit: ILRI/Tezira Lore). Integrated approaches such as One Health and Ecohealth…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Livestock farming in the highlands of Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). One Health refers to the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment. Although the usefulness of the…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Participants at a food safety stakeholder meeting held on 24 February 2014 and hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (photo credit: ILRI/Samuel Mungai). The International Livestock…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Harvested maize in Mozambique. Aflatoxins in maize and other staple crops pose significant public health risks in many developing countries (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Earlier this week, on Tuesday 5 November 2013, the International Food Policy…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Delia Grace presenting at a side session on ‘Food safety: Options for addressing a growing crisis’ at IFPRI’s 2020 Conference on ‘Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) On 15-17 May 2014,…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Estevao Carlos, a pork seller in Morrumbala District, in Zambezia, the most populated province of Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). Two useful reality checks have appeared this week for those of us in the agricultural research…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
A new FAO study reports that more than 85 per cent of poor livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa live in extreme poverty; here, at a Toureg encampment near Fakara, in Niger, a boy herds a…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
January’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) was the venue for a panel session on sustainable livestock organized as part of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock. The session was run as a facilitated…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Two new reports out this week urge greater integration of fish in achieving food and nutrition security and sustainable food systems. The World Resources Institute in their fifth instalment…

Originally posted on with my heart wide open:
our lovely new neighbors on the SPS campus in village Neemkheda, MP.

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Originally posted on Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source:
  Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update   GENEVA, Switzerland, May 30, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update   Guinea  …