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Preventing future pandemics hinges on improving Global South livestock systems, says new One Health playbook

Scientists present 18 ways governments, investors and experts can protect human health by addressing interactions with livestock and their environment across seven key areas. A new One Health playbook offers governments around the world 18 practical ways to improve livestock systems in developing...

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Celebrating the world’s enduring, resilient, nature-friendly and productive rangelands and livestock herders

The United Nations Declare 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists Having a moment are millions of livestock herders worldwide and the many more people who appreciate these custodians of the world’s vast and stunning rangelands—the grasslands and savannas, the prairies and...

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Do Kenya’s camel handlers face a threat from MERS? What we found

A camel herder in Kenya (photo credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images). Written by Eric Fèvre , University of Liverpool and International Livestock Research Institute, and Elizabeth Cook , International Livestock Research Institute In Kenya, camels are a very popular animal to keep as livestock...

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‘Drylands and Rangelands: Harnessing Change’ at Global Landscapes Forum in New York

The International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) is delighted to announce that a session devoted to drylands and rangelands is being incorporated in the agenda of a big event of the estimable Global Landscapes Forum , which is taking place all day tomorrow, in New York City. The theme of...

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Thursday Links (September 2019)

A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) staff and partners, compiled by David Aronson. News out of Africa An article in The Nation says that supermarkets in...

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Thursday links (16 May 2019)

A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff and partners, compiled by David Aronson. In sharp contrast to most of the gloomy reporting on livestock, this leader from The Economist on global meat-eating...

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Dairy: A tool to fight poverty—An interview with IFCN’s Torsten Hemme

Niko Pirosmani, Woman Milks a Cow, 1916 (via Wikiart) . Listen to one of three interviewees on a recent BBC broadcast on the topic of dairy and poverty. Having scanned the scientific literature (100 journal articles) on the impact of milk production on reducing poverty, Torsten Hemme, managing...

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Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?

Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flintan). ‘The debate over whether a vegetarian diet is better for the planet is top of mind for many as news of water scarcity, climate change, and deforestation seem to worsen by the day. Sarah Taber...

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Northern Kenya-southern Ethiopia dryland livestock traders gathered in Marsabit for better livestock trade and market links

Livestock trade scene in Wajir, northern Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale). ‘Enthusiastic traders from several counties in northern Kenya and from across the border in Ethiopia joined a livestock trade facilitation forum in Marsabit, Kenya on May 9. By close of business, participating...