Healthy foods must be nutritious, safe and fair–But what is good for the rich may be bad for the poor

Posted on 13 Apr 2015 by Susan MacMillan • 2 Comments

Pork joints in Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Martin Heilmann, Freie Universitaet Berlin). The following excerpts are taken from a guest commentary, Healthy foods must be nutritious, safe and fair, published on the Global Food for Thought blog of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on 10 Apr 2015. The authors are John McDermott, of the International Food Policy … Continue reading →

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All things zoonotic: An ‘Urban Zoo’ research project tracks livestock-based pathogen flows in and around Nairobi

Posted on 31 Mar 2015 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

An Urban Zoo research project in Kenya (more formally called ‘Epidemiology, Ecology and Socio‐Economics of Disease Emergence in Nairobi’) is tracking pathogen flows in and around Kenya’s capital city. Continue reading →

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New publication warns of rising use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs in farm animals

Posted on 30 Mar 2015 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist colleague of Robinson’s at ILRI, was recently asked by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to write a paper, now under external review, on antimicrobial resistance linked to agriculture. Continue reading →

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Informal markets main source of food for Africa’s poor: Today and tomorrow

Posted on 29 Jan 2015 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

‘. . . According to studies by scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), informal markets . . . provide essential sources of food and income for millions of poor, with milk and meat that is often safer than supermarkets. Blunt crack-downs on informal milk and meat sellers that are a critical source of food and income for millions of people are not the solution,” Delia Grace, ILRI’s program leader for food Safety and Zoonoses, said during the launch of the study in Nairobi on Tuesday. Continue reading →

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Local vendors, not supermarkets, are key to Africa’s food security

Posted on 28 Jan 2015 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

Simple food safety training for informal vendors can limit the spread of SARS, avian influenza, tuberculosis and pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli, said the book, “Food safety and informal markets: Animal products in sub-Saharan Africa”. Continue reading →

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Slum livestock agriculture

Posted on 30 Dec 2014 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Maria Teresa Correa, an epidemiologist and public health professor at North Carolina State University, and Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), have an interesting chapter on an interesting subject — Slum livestock agriculture — published in the Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems (2014). Continue reading →

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Ebola: Three unpalatable truths

Posted on 23 Oct 2014 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

The district of Kailahun, in eastern Sierra Leone, bordering Guinea, is home to this 88-bed largest Ebola treatment and isolation centre set up by Médecins Sans Frontières (photo on Flickr by ©EC/ECHO/Cyprien Fabre). This opinion piece is written by Eliza Smith ‘By now, it seems we’ve heard everything there is to hear about the mysterious … Continue reading →

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‘Ecohealth’ approaches linking human and environmental health in Kenya

Posted on 8 Sep 2014 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

ILRI is leading most ecohealth approaches in Kenya, in collaboration with the International Development Research Centre, a Canadian corporation that supports research in developing countries, and has regional offices in Nairobi. Continue reading →

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Research shows vast differences in livestock systems, diets and emissions–FCRN on PNAS paper

Posted on 12 Apr 2014 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

Tara Garnet, of the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN), at Oxford University, recently highlighted a paper published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, Biomass use, production, feed efﬁciencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems, is written by livestock scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI, Kenya) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO, Australia). Continue reading →

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Aflatoxins: New briefs disclose the threat to people and livestock and what research is doing about it

Posted on 30 Mar 2014 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

A damaged maize cob that, if harvested with clean cobs, can contaminate all the cobs with aflatoxins (photo credit: Joseph Atehnkeng/IITA). ‘The UN World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that billions of people in the developing world are chronically exposed to aflatoxin, a natural poison on food crops which causes cancer, impairs the immune system, inhibits … Continue reading →

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