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When did the chicken first cross the road?
There are nine chickens in the world for every human, but the story of how the species emerged from the jungles of Southeast Asia some 8,000 years ago to become the world’s favoured protein source is...
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ILRI’s scientists receive the African Academy of Science and Royal Society...
Cattle coming in from the fields in the evening in Lhate Village, Chokwe, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Royal Society is a fellowship of the world’s most eminent...
View ArticleFocus on environmental health: The role of rangelands in an integrated One...
As the we commemorate the World Environment Day, 5 -June-2020, the criticality of the One Health approach, integrating human, animal and environmental health has continued to come to the fore. Yet,...
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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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ILRI launches new drought index insurance for resilience in the Sahel and...
Camels carrying salt harvested in Afar, Ethiopia. A new drought index-insurance for resilience project is focusing on pastoral systems in the Sahel and Horn of Africa (photo credit:ILRI/ Fiona...
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ILRI Forage Genebank supports development of improved forage varieties to...
Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI forage genebank (photo credit:ILRI/Apollo Habtamu) The recent release of the CGIAR Genebank Platform 2019 annual report highlights that, for the...
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Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and...
Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tadelle Dessie is one of many authors of a new paper in the Journal of Nutrition with partners from...
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Updated CGIAR feed database provides best-cost livestock feed rations for...
Fifty three new accessions of Napier grass received at Forage Genebank, ILRI, Addis Ababa from EMBRAPA, Brazil (photo credit: ILRI) An updated CGIAR livestock feeds database for sub-Saharan Africa is...
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ILRI Impact at Scale program shares insights on scaling tools and practices...
This post was written by Murat Sartas and Saba Ermyas, and edited by Paul Karaimu. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Impact at Scale (I@S) program recently share examples for...
View ArticleTowards clearer One Health policies in eastern Africa: Interview with HEAL...
In November 2020, Zuleka Ismail joined the One Health for Humans, Environment, Animals and Livelihoods (HEAL) Project as interim regional manager. Zuleka brings more than seven years of experience in...
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