Monthly Archives: September 2015

Livestock options to meet development goals: ILRI side event at Tropentag Conference in Prague

Originally posted on ILRI news:
The Farmyard, by Marc Chagall, 1962 (image via Wikimedia). This post is written by ILRI assistant director general Shirley Tarawali A side event at the Tropentag 2014 International Conference, being held at the Czech University of…

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Addis Ababa conference marks 40-year anniversary of world’s leading livestock-research-for-development institute

Originally posted on ILRI news:
Franz Marc, The Yellow Cow, 1911 (via Wikiart). To mark 40 years of international research this year, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been facilitating a series of events highlighting the ways livestock research…

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Sustainable intensification?: Implications for the emergence of diseases

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Currently new diseases are emerging at the rate of one every four months and three out of four of these diseases jump species from other animals. Many of these diseases are associated with agriculture. Scientists from…

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One-for-all and all-for-one: Breaking down the walls between the livestock, health and environmental sectors

Originally posted on ILRI news:
Slide 15 of a presentation on one-health approaches made by ILRI director general Jimmy Smith at the 5th biennial conference of the International Association for Ecology & Health in Montreal 11−15 Aug 2014; the presentation…

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Small producers are big opportunities for a healthy, safe and sustainable global livestock sector

Originally posted on ILRI news:
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), gave a keynote presentation at the International Federation for Animal Health–Europe conference Healthy Animals, Healthy Food, a Healthy Future, held in Brussels on 11…

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