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Genetics breakthrough in disease-resistant native East African cattle breed—The Economist

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) veterinary scientists led by Phil Toye and James Prendergast of the Roslin Institute were featured in The Economist for the serendipitous discovery of a gene that could make African cattle more resistant to East Coast Fever. Reproduced here is the...

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Experts discuss the impact of climate change on tick-borne pathogens in western, central and eastern Africa

Africa is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, impacting the emergence, re-emergence and spread of vector-borne diseases. The epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in tropical Africa is complex, often characterized by co-infection of livestock and wildlife with multiple tick-borne...

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James Magondu

The Institute for International Livestock Research (ILRI) is sad to report the death the week before last of James Magondu, a long-term staff member of ILRI and its predecessor, the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), who retired from ILRI in 2012. As Julius Osaso,...

  • Susan MacMillan
    Emeritus Fellow(International Livestock Research Institute)
  • Chris Hinson
    Former ILRAD Laboratory Manager(Retired)
  • Julius Osaso
    Diagnostic Platform Manager(BecA-ILRI Hub)
AVCD program blog

How DFAs are rejuvenating the dairy industry in Homa Bay and Siaya counties

Okal Okoko, at his Okasambu Dairy Farm in Oyugis, Homa Bay Before 2019, Kasbondo Dairy Cooperative, in Oyugis, Homa Bay County used to receive 300-350 litres of milk per day from less than 25 farmers with only three of them able supply 60 litres per day. Across the region in Siaya County, SAM...

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Decades of foundational animal health research showcased in new book

3 Nov 2021 ILRI launches a book detailing the impacts of livestock research for development conducted by ILRI and its many partners since the early 1970s. Check out the book's landing page . Below is just one of the many stories outlined in the book. Decades of foundational animal health research...

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Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Assessing the role of cooperatives in promoting adoption of livestock vaccines in Kenya

Researchers in the Policies Institutions and Livelihoods (PIL) program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have had to adopt new ways of conducting surveys in a bid to comply with the COVID-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions in Kenya. Julius Githinji, a research associate...

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USAID-funded Regional Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab to be based in Nairobi, Kenya

Livestock moving back to the villages during a storm, Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/ Camille Hanotte) . A five-year, USD6 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) , with an opportunity to grow to $16 million, will develop a regional Feed the Future...

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Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever

RCVS Knowledge, the charity partner of the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has awarded its inaugural Plowright Prize to Professor William Ivan Morrison of the University of Edinburgh for his research combating the cattle disease East Coast fever. Ivan Morrison started his career at the...

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ILRI scientists are applying advanced ‘nanovaccinology’ in development of new vaccines against devastating tropical livestock diseases

Artistic render of a nanoparticle (photo credit: University of California at Berkeley/Mathew Tirrell) Smaller than 100 nanometres in diameter—about 60 times smaller than the width of human hair and comparable in size to microscopic structures within cells—synthetically produced nanoparticles are...

AVCD program blog

Can the private sector deliver livestock vaccines in Kenya? Yes, they can.

A private service provider supported by ILRI AVCD LC, provides high quality veterinary inputs and services closer to the farmers in the ASALs (Photo credit: ILRI/ Haret Hambe). Livestock diseases and vectors are among the top constraints limiting productivity and development of the livestock...

ILVAC - saving livestock with vaccines

Progress in developing next generation vaccines for the control of East Coast fever.

Anna Lacasta 1 , James Nyagwange 1 , Nicholas Svitek 1 , Samuel Oyola 1 , Sonal Henson 1 , Lucilla Steinaa 1 , Vish Nene 1 , Ine de Goeyse 2 , Neena Mitter 3 , Michael Yu 3 , Fred Fellouse 4 , Neil King 5 1 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), 2 Institute for Tropical Medicine, 3...

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ILRI’s Kapiti livestock research station—and Kenyan and global public goods—imperiled by land grabs in Kenya

Over the past several weeks, illegal attempts to grab land have escalated at Kapiti Plains Estate (now known as Kapiti research station ), located about 60 km southeast of Nairobi along Mombasa Road, in Kenya’s Machakos County . Members of groups involved in the illegal sales have started...