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New UK funding for disease surveillance will improve health and farming in Kenya
A small mixed crop-livestock farm in Western Kenya (photo credit: LCC CRSP/Mark Nanyingi). The University of Liverpool has been given funding to start a surveillance program to reduce the incidence of...
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UK chief scientific adviser visits Kenya: Part 4—Development of a...
Joerg Jores (right) gives Sir Mark Walport, UK chief scientific adviser, an overview of work to develop a field-friendly diagnostic test for Middle East respiratory syndrome (photo credit: ILRI/Paul...
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‘Soft’ science at ILRAD/ILRI: A lively look back at three decades of...
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) marked its 40-year anniversary last year, 2014. One of the publications commissioned to celebrate that milestone is this new research report,...
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‘Zoonotic’ diseases take the spotlight of UN environmental talks this week...
ILRI veterinary epidemiologists Delia Grace and Eric Fèvre were two of the panelists at a high-level Science Policy Forum this morning discussing zoonotic (animal-to-human) diseases at the United...
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Livestock for better nutrition and disease control–One Health Colloquium held...
Stacked farm animal figurine (from zulily on Pinterest). One Health Colloquium Sustainable Livestock, Disease Control, Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis 31 May–1 Jun 2016 Chatham House, London The...
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A first look at ILRI’s new research programs: Animal and Human Health
BETTER SCIENCE, BETTER LIVES The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), headquartered in Africa and working in poor countries worldwide to provide better lives through livestock, held its...
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German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both...
(Left) ILRI Deputy Director General for Biosciences Dieter Schillinger welcomes to ILRI Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)...
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ILRI and India’s National Institute of Animal Biotechnology to identify...
Group photo: A memorandum of understanding between ILRI and the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), India, was signed on 20 August 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The...
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A few engineering breakthroughs that could (literally) transform Africa’s...
Antigen biosensor detector on a UV LASER ablated gold coated glass plate (Photo credit: Flickr/Clive Boyd) This article has been written by Steve Kemp In the next 30 years, the world population is...
View ArticleWorkshop inaugurates surveillance project on human and animal diseases in Kenya
A variety of zoonotic diseases afflict Kenyan livestock and the people who raise them. Using a modified prioritization tool developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, experts in human...
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Animal health experts on the ‘goat plague’ known as PPR chart ways forward...
A boy feeding goats during the SLP crop residues project field trip to Ginchi in Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Bruno Gerard). Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), also known as ‘goat plague’, is a viral...
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African swine fever ten years on: the lessons learned and the way forward
A pig in northwest Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Hanh Le). African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs which has caused serious economic and production losses in...
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Diagnostic tests for COVID-19: How useful are they?
Women working in the advanced animal health laboratories of ILRI, in Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/David White). Last week, in one of a series of weekly townhalls held by the...
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Woman veterinarian pioneers public-private partnership to improve veterinary...
Netsanet Sitotaw, 25, is a young veterinarian and the owner of ‘Netsanet Sitotaw’, a veterinary clinic in Bahir Dar, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region. She is the pioneer of a ‘public-private partnership...
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