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Jan 2022Dec 2024

Selecting efficient farm-level antimicrobial stewardship interventions from a One Health perspective

The project provides explicit impact estimates and ranking for a range of farm-level antimicrobial resistance interventions in Senegal, highlighting where future research could be most valuable in understanding intervention efficiency from a One Health perspective. Objectives Establish a consortium...

Apr 2019Dec 2022

ICAR Project, Animal Disease Economics

Objectives: - Development of an integrated epidemiological-economic framework through participatory system dynamics modelling that can be used to quantify economic and non-economics of animal disease and its control strategies under different scenarios; - Application of the framework to assess the...

Jan 2020Dec 2022

Small Ruminant Production Enhancement Project, Gambia

The project is national in design and intent. It will generally be implemented in 39 Districts of all the country's regions. However, due consideration will be given to the fact that projects implementing small ruminant production-related activities may be present in some areas to avoid unnecessary...

Dec 2021Aug 2022

Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security Pillar of the AAAP

Improving adaptation of the livestock sub-sector to the climate change risks is therefore an imperative for achieving increased livestock production and productivity, transforming them into quality food for animal and human consumption, accessing markets for final products and integrating the...

Jan 2022Dec 2024

Protecting human health through a One Health approach

COVID-19 is the sixth zoonotic pandemic since 1980. The frequency and severity of these events is increasing as people encroach on wildlife habitats, and livestock and fish production systems intensify. Animal production systems are reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens, which are responsible for 60% of...

Aug 2022Jul 2025

Tropical Poultry Genetics Solutions (TPGS): Delivering farmer preferred, productive and ecologically adapted poultry to smallholders

This three year project will run as part of the One CGIAR initiatives and will focus on seven interrelated outcome areas, namely: Characterization of ecological adaptation of chicken ecotypes and identification of farmers trait preferences Strengthening of existing partnerships and developing new...

Aug 2022Aug 2025

EnviroCow: Reducing feed costs and GHG emission in smallholder dairy cattle in SSA

This three year partnership is between Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), U.K and ILRI. It will achieve its purpose of improving feed mitigation to climate change, increasing farmer productivity and income as well as access to nutritious food by enabling the selection of new generations of dairy...

Jan 2022Jul 2025

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action

Tomorrow’s food insecurity and malnutrition, however, can be overcome today by early actions and solutions that increase the resilience and adaptive capacities of pastoralist communities facing climate threats. Jameel Observatory adopt a community of practice approach which was launched in Kenya...

Jan 2020Aug 2022

Mapping the issues of Indian donkey and mule population and identify the potential intervention strategies and partners

This scoping study will give an overview and map of the donkey and mule population, their usage and contribution to livelihood, characteristics of dependent communities, direct and indirect causes of poor animal welfare and potential stakeholders for future partnership. This study will help to...

Jul 2021Jun 2023

Local governance of natural resources for community stabilization in Central Mali (Kedo Diren)

Mali's Mopti region is endowed with immense water and land resources generating for livelihoods for millions of families. The availability of these resources made the region an ideal environment for a thriving ruminant livestock farming. However, the region has recently been the scene of violent...

Jan 2021Dec 2023

Inclusive red meat value chains for women and youth in Eastern and Southern Africa (K'LUSA)

Most rural households in Zimbabwe and Malawi depend on smallholder agriculture and livestock husbandry to meet food and nutritional security goals and improve their livelihoods. However, due to the low level of public and private investment in the livestock sector, livestock-keeping households...

Oct 2021Oct 2022

Circulation of antibiotic resistance genes at the wildlife–livestock interface in Kapiti, Kenya

Antimicrobial resistance poses a threat to food security, human health, the natural ecosystem and the global economy. Wildlife carry bacteria, some of which may be resistant to antibiotics. Through horizontal gene transfer, bacteria in a microbial community can transfer antibiotic resistance genes...