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Originally posted on AgHealth:
Animal health leaders and researchers from the Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) program have secured US$ 7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to roll…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
The effects of COVID-19 have gone undocumented in nomadic pastoralist communities across Africa, which are largely invisible to health surveillance systems despite their significance in the setting of emerging infectious disease. A new research paper in…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
World Zoonoses Day is commemorated on 6 July every year to mark the day in 1885 when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against rabies, a deadly zoonotic disease. The day is also an occasion…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
A gender-inclusive approach to community livestock vaccination can help address the different barriers faced by men and women farmers and may increase the uptake of livestock vaccines Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Researchers entering sampling data (photo credit: Zoonoses and Emerging Diseases). In the cities of developing nations, where unregulated antibiotic use is common and livestock jostle with people amid often unsanitary conditions, scientists have found a potentially…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon (photo credit: BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY).  ? Frank M. Mitloehner, University of California, Davis As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index, piloted by ILRI in Tanzania, assesses the empowerment of women in production systems in which livestock…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
Divine bovine, painting by Karen Bezuidenhout. A new science paper argues for broadening traditional approaches to livestock sustainability and veterinary vision in developing countries. Two of the three livestock science authors—Brian Perry and Tim Robinson—have…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
A new report was published this month on the value of ensuring consumption of meat, milk and eggs by infants up to two years of age and by expectant and new mothers in developing countries…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
Understanding livestock yield gaps for poverty alleviation, food security and the environment is a report published by the LiveGAPS Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), in Dec 2016. The report was…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
There are many opinions about the merits and risks of livestock keeping. Livestock provide livelihoods and jobs for millions of people, they provide essential nutrients in human diets, they act as mobile assets for poor…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
? ? Art combines with science to bring the message of the capacity of the new Incubated Worlds poultry facility to deliver prosperity to Ethiopia’s poultry smallholder farmers (photo credit: ILRI/Gail Amare). Scientists and government…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
Kick-off event at Berlin’s tenth annual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Jan 2018 (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). This year’s GFFA in Berlin addressed Shaping the Future of Livestock—Sustainably, Responsibly, Efficiently The Global Forum for…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
ILRI scientist Michael Blümmel (photo by ILRI/Stevie Mann) and beef cattle in Indonesia consuming straw (photo by ILRI/Jules Mateo). Michael Blümmel, deputy program leader for the Feed and Forage Development program at the International Livestock Research…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
ILRI geneticist Olivier Hanotte carries out work on chicken samples in Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). ‘. . . International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt announced the new UK aid research, which is being carried…