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Policy dialogue held to support small-scale pig farmers in Nagaland, India
Last month (27 Feb 2014), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partners convened a meeting of actors in the pig sector in Nagaland, India, to review policies that could better...
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‘Ecohealth’ approaches linking human and environmental health in Kenya
Mother, child and the family cows outside their homestead in Busia, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Charlie Pye-Smith). ‘Many key health challenges like Malaria in Kenya can only be managed through the...
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Local vendors, not supermarkets, are key to Africa’s food security
A book launched in Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday has lots to say to nutritionists and policymakers and government officials in Africa inclined to view the continent’s many ‘informal’ food markets with...
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Informal markets main source of food for Africa’s poor: Today and tomorrow
Food Safety and Informal Markets: Animal Products in Sub-Saharan Africa was launched at ILRI in Nairobi on 27 January, 2015 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). ‘. . . According to studies by scientists...
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Over-diagnosis of the milk-linked brucellosis disease in Kenya found—New study
Animal health experts from Kenya discuss future priorities for brucellosis control. They were part of a group of 60 participants at an international workshop held to discuss an integrated approach to...
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Scientists stress need, amid COVID-19, to maintain focus on everyday zoonotic...
James Akoko, ILRI Animal Health Assistant with the People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project, making blood smears (photo credit: BMGF/Lee Klejtnot). Most diseases that transmit from animals to...
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