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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...

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...

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...

Climate change and small ruminants in extensive systems in East Africa – challenges, co-benefits and options for methane mitigation (CHANCE)

Project Objectives: The project has the three following objectives: Objective 1. GHG emissions from sheep kept in extensive systems in Sub-Saharan Africa – interactions of breed and health status (enteric fermentation and manure) We will set up an in vivo animal experiment using sheep, to quantify...

May 2022Apr 2025

Reducing losses and zoonotic risks along the Burkina Faso poultry value chain through a One Health approach

Poultry disease in Burkina Faso is a major constraint to productivity and can negatively affect human health. Training of poultry producers and sellers on better farm and market practices, and effective business models that enhance value chain linkages can improve the safety and productivity of the...

Nov 2020Dec 2022

Regional integrated agricultural development project in the great lakes (PRDAIGL)

Objectives Improve dairy production in Burundi by facilitating access to modern animal husbandry practices. This include strengthening the country's capacity for disease surveillance and control, accelerating genetic improvement through artificial insemination, and introducing improved and nutrient...

Jun 2020Jun 2023

Management of animal diseases and antimicrobial use by information and communication technology to control antimicrobial resistance in East Africa

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to global public health and interventions to address it are urgently required. The project applies information and communications technology in poultry production to enhance poultry health, reduce the need to use antibiotics and limit the risk of...

Jan 2021Dec 2021

Silvopastoralism and welfare of animals in Borana

Silvopastoralism is a form of agroforestry that involves integrating trees, forage and the grazing of domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way. This project will develop site-specific action plans to strengthen silvopastoralism and its value chain integrating management of dry forests,...

Jan 2018Dec 2021

Metropolitan mosquitoes: Understanding urban livestock keeping and vector-borne disease in growing tropical cities

With over half of the global population living in urban areas, cities are not only crowded with people but also with livestock as well as disease vectors like rodents and mosquitoes. Thus, cities may serve as a melting pot for emerging infectious diseases, including zoonotic and vector-borne...

Nov 2015Oct 2025

African Dairy Genetic Gains

The ADDG project is in its second phase after a successful first phase and an extension period. The second phase of the project is integrated in the Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender Inclusion (SAPLING) CGIAR research initiative. This second phase has expanded...

Jan 2015Dec 2016

mPig: Mobile SMS learning for pigs - An innovative information sharing platform for smallholder pig value chain actors in Uganda

This project will support the CGIAR Research Project on Livestock and Fish by piloting innovative methods to disseminate information to pig value chain actors to increase pig growth and reproductive performance on farm, improve market access for poor value chain actors and ultimately improve food...

Better livelihoods through improvement of livestock production and marketing in North East India

The main agricultural activity of farmers in Northeast India is the mixed crop-livestock system characterized with low inputs and outputs, making poor farmers suffer from decreasing sustainability. Livestock, especially pig and poultry, is a key livelihood among the farming rural families and...