Category Archives: Food Safety

Under SPS and markets, we work on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues, growing market requirements for food safety and quality that constrain market access by smallholders (including appropriate development of smallholder dairy markets).

Agri-Health / Article / CRP4 / Disease Control / East Africa / Emerging Diseases / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / Interview / Kenya / MarketOpps / Nutrition (human) / PA / Policy / Report / Zoonotic Diseases

Keeping cows in the city, chickens under the bed: ‘The Atlantic’ magazine explores Africa’s urbanization

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Butcher shop in a slum in Kawangare, Nairobi, Kenya (picture on Flickr by Brad Ruggles). It’s not only people who are rapidly urbanizing in Africa: people migrating from rural areas are bringing their livelihoods with them, which in Africa largely means their cattle, goats, sheep, chickens and pigs. A scientific report from researchers based in … Continue reading »

Agri-Health / Animal Production / Emerging Diseases / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / Intensification / Livestock Systems / MarketOpps / PA / Pigs / Poultry

Misuse of antibiotics and ‘factory farming’ of animals: Alarm bells sound

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‘The Spoonful of Milk’ by Marc Chagall, 1912 (via WikiPaintings). ‘. . . It is estimated that about 70% of the world’s antibiotics are fed to farm animals: the precise amount used in agriculture is poorly recorded. But what seems sure — as the number of intensively farmed animals grows — is that their use increases too, … Continue reading »

Africa / Agriculture / Climate Change / Ethiopia / Food Safety / Food security / Research

Third Dialogue on Ethiopian agriculture to discuss agricultural research in the face of climate change and food security

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The third Dialogue on Ethiopian Agriculture with the theme “Agricultural Research for National Development in the Face of Climate Change and Food Security” will take place on March 9 and 10, 2013 at Haramaya University. The Dialogue aims to provide a platform to deliberate on policy issues and strategies pertaining to agricultural education, research, technology … Continue reading »

Agri-Health / CRP4 / Disease Control / East Africa / Emerging Diseases / Film and video / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / Interview / Kenya / MarketOpps / PA / Report / Zoonotic Diseases

Slum livestock = Food? Income? Disease? All three?–Al Jazeera reports on ILRI research

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Peter Greste, a journalist with Al Jazeera, recently accompanied veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert Delia Grace to the slums of Nairobi, to take a first-hand look at ‘urban farming’, livestock farming in particular. Grace works for the International Livestock Research Institute and leads a health component of a new multi-institutional CGIAR Research Program on … Continue reading »

Agri-Health / Article / Cattle / CRP4 / Dairying / East Africa / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / Interview / Kenya / MarketOpps / PA / Zoonotic Diseases

Cattle in the capital, managed well, can improve nutrition and health in Kenya’s slums

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Leornard Gitau, a small-scale livestock farmer in Dagoretti, Nairobi speaks to journalists during a media tour of urban farmers in Nairobi on 21 Sep 2012 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). In the Nairobi suburb of Dagoretti, ‘Leonard Gichuru Gitau is a city dweller, but it doesn’t take a detective to see that he is also a … Continue reading »

Climate Change / Disease Control / Emerging Diseases / Food Safety / Food security / Livestock / Livestock Systems / Research / Zoonotic Diseases

Five grand challenges for animal science research – ASAS takes stock

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The American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) has released five ‘Grand Challenges documents‘ that advocate research priorities for the future of animal science. The issues covered are: Animal health: Support for animal health research would improve disease resistance, disease prevention and animal productivity. Climate change: A better understanding of climate change would keep animal agriculture … Continue reading »

Africa / Agri-Health / Asia / Consumption / CRP4 / Film and video / Food Safety / ILRI / MarketOpps / Nutrition (human) / PA / Project

Safe food, fair food: Making milk and meat safe and affordable for the world’s poor

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Demand for milk and meat continues to rise in developing countries (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The New Agriculturist recently reported on a Safe Food, Fair Food Project led by scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). ‘Rising demand for livestock products is providing opportunities to improve the livelihoods of smallscale livestock farmers across Africa. … Continue reading »

Animal Production / Consumption / CRP2 / Food Safety / Food security / ILRI / Innovation Systems / Intensification / Livelihoods / Livestock / MarketOpps / Markets / Policy / Report / Research / Trade / Value Chains

Livestock market opportunities for the poor: Smallholders can be competitive

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For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at ILRI, Steve Staal, Derek Baker, Karl Rich, Ayele Gelan, Acho Okike, Delia Grace, Mohammad Jabbar, Mohamadou Fadiga, Ranjitha Puskur, Lucy Lapar, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Amos Omore and Francis Wanyoike prepared a series of issue briefs on smallholder livestock producers, consumers, and development … View a presentation to the … Continue reading »

Agri-Health / Animal Diseases / Animal Production / CRP4 / Disease Control / Emerging Diseases / Epidemiology / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / Livestock / MarketOpps / Report / Research / Zoonotic Diseases

Agriculture-associated diseases research at ILRI: Food, farming and human health

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For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at ILRI, Delia Grace, Bernard Bett, Eric Fèvre and John McDermott prepared a series of issue briefs on livestock and human health … Agricultural innovation has allowed massive expansion of people and their animals. Yet as the world population passed 7 billion in October 2011, more than one … Continue reading »