Cambodia’s Safe Food, Fair Food project addresses major food safety issues
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Cambodia’s Safe Food, Fair Food project addresses major food safety issues

A research project in Cambodia is evaluating the economic burden of food-borne diseases in animal-source food value chains that are important to the poor, and it is piloting a market-based approach to improving food safety that builds on projects successfully implemented by ILRI in Africa and Asia Continue reading

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ILRI launches mobile phone-based interactive voice advisory service for pig farmers in Uganda

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is underlining its commitment to smallholder pig farmers with the launch of Uganda’s first interactive voice response (IVR) service that will provide information on biosecurity measures for the prevention and control of African swine fever (ASF) and other pig diseases. Continue reading

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Livestock markets, animal source foods and human nutrition: Considering program tensions, maximizing impact and avoiding harm

On 17 October 2016, Land O’Lakes International Development and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) will host a one-day in-person event in Washington DC that addresses the programmatic and operational challenges of increasing consumption of ASF in rural and producer households through market development initiatives. Continue reading