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American agricultural economist Tom Randolph to lead new CGIAR Research...
Tom Randolph, an agricultural economist at ILRI, speaks with former ILRI project manager Oumar Diall while attending a 2006 workshop in Bamako, Mali, on controlling trypanosomosis drug resistance, a...
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New analysis in ‘Science’ tells how world eradicated deadliest cattle plague...
In a new analysis in Science, ILRI researcher Jeffrey Mariner describes how the world eradicated deadliest cattle plague, the second such success after smallpox. The authors of the paper reveal the...
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Rinderpest: Scourge of pastoralists defeated, at long last, by pastoralists
A timeline of major events in the history of rinderpest in Africa from its introduction in 1887, in military cattle brought to Eritrea to feed troops, to the declaration of rinderpest’s eradication in...
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New vaccine launched today to protect Kenyan cattle against East Coast fever
Mrs Kivuti and her dairy cow in Kenya (on Flickr by Jeff Haskins). Today is a red-letter day for livestock keepers in Kenya. A vaccine is being launched by the Kenya Department of Veterinary Services...
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Experts meet to share tactics in fight against ‘goat plague’: Filmed highlights
Watch this short (3:50 minutes) film on the views of participants at a recent meeting to coordinate research strategies for a disease of small ruminants known as peste des petits ruminants, or PPR....
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‘Livestock Research for Africa’s Food Security’: Join us at our side event at...
Next week, staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and many other CGIAR centres and research programs are attending the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW6), which is...
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‘Not by food alone’: Livestock research should be used to make a bigger...
Livestock matter to the livelihoods and ambitions of most people living in Africa and other developing regions of the world (image credit: ILRI/Rob O’Meara). Note: This post was developed by ILRI...
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Scissors and crazy glue: Lorne Babiuk, award-winning vaccine evangelist,...
Director of ILRI’s vaccine development program Vish Nene (left) with Canadian vaccinologist and ILRI board member Lorne Babiuk (right) at morning tea with ILRI staff (photo credit: ILRI/Susan...
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ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on global health and food security: Why developing-country...
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) gave a keynote presentation this morning (17 Oct 2013) at the opening of the Global Animal Health Conference,...
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World’s largest agricultural research partnership, serving 1 billion poor,...
Tanzanian Maasai help vaccinate their calves against lethal East Coast fever (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). CGIAR has doubled its funding in the last five years, from $500 million (in 2008) to $1...
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