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Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people

A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously pushes back against some of the on-going anti-livestock rhetoric appearing in Western media. The new paper has four big messages: Meat, offal, milk, eggs and fish are vital to—and missing from—the...

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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries

AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank study finds that the impact of unsafe food costs low- and middle-income economies about US$ 110 billion in lost productivity and medical expenses each year. Yet a large proportion of these costs could...

  • Kristina Rösel
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An animal data safari at the 2018 CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Convention

Last week, on 4 October – World Animal Day – ILRI’s Peter Ballantyne coordinated an interactive ‘mini-safari’ at the Big Data in Agriculture 2018 convention to showcase and demonstrate data-driven opportunities for and from livestock and fish ecosystems. Comprising a mix of displays, stands, live...

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Safe Food Fair Food blog

Agrilinks hosts month-long focus on food safety

Including two contributions featuring the Safe Food, Fair Food Africa project: Food Safety in Informal Markets in Low-Income Countries Gender Considerations in Informal Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa AgHealth Fish market in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (photo credit: WorldFish/Jamie Oliver)...

  • Kristina Rösel
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

Gender and aquaculture value chains: Key issues and implications for research

Although aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector in the world and generates significant employment opportunities at multiple scales, men and women are not necessarily able to participate in aquaculture value chains in the same way, and benefits may not be evenly distributed between...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

Navigating upstream and downstream research: reflections from the Livestock and Fish animal health flagship

In late 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish produced several synthesis products, including a series of briefs on its animal health work carried out between 2012 and 2016. This brief examines the experiences of scientists conducting a range of field and laboratory-based research...

  • James Stapleton
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

Assessing the environmental impacts of livestock and fish production

In late 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish produced several synthesis products, including a series of briefs on ex-ante environment impact assessment work carried out between 2012 and 2016. This brief introduces the justification for this work and the different streams of work...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

Using the life cycle assessment approach to assess the environmental impacts of fish production in Egypt

In late 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish produced several synthesis products, including a series of briefs on ex-ante environment impact assessment work carried out between 2012 and 2016. One of the approaches used (in Egypt) was life cycle assessment (LCA). The program has...

  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

Integrated delivery systems of improved livestock and fish genetics

In late 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish produced several synthesis products, including a series of briefs on livestock genetics work carried out between 2012 and 2016. The starting point for this brief is that weak public and private sector service delivery constrains...

  • James Stapleton
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Free e-version of book on food safety in informal markets in sub-Saharan Africa now available

We are pleased to announce that the book, Food Safety and Informal Markets: Animal Products in Sub-Saharan Africa , edited by Kristina Roesel and Delia Grace of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is now freely available online as an open access resource. The book was published...

  • Kristina Rösel
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food, Fair Food: more than 20 project outputs in 2013

In 2013 the partners in the ILRI -led and BMZ-funded project Safe Food Fair Food spent most of their time in the field conducting rapid assessments and baseline surveys in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Nonetheless, a number of publications were finalized. Nine more students from the...

  • Kristina Rösel
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safety of Egyptian farmed tilapia under scrutiny

A recent analysis showed that the aquaculture value chain in Egypt is mainly based on the production of tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus ) and mullet ( Mugil cephalus and Liza ramada) . The value chain was found to be short with no post-harvest processing ( Macfadyen et al. 2011 ). However, there is...

  • Kristina Rösel