A collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is supporting the development of backyard poultry production systems in India. The project aims for developing the indigenous chicken specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip for use in Indian indigenous chicken breeds. Continue reading
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partners recently trained 20 Vietnamese and 55 Laotian stakeholders on food safety and food safety risk assessment. This training is among the efforts of the Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions (ASSET) project in transforming the food systems in the Southeast Asia region. Continue reading
Experts in India met in a recent regional workshop to design a comprehensive African swine fever (ASF) management plan in response to the negative impacts of the disease on the livelihoods of millions of farmers in the northeast of the country. Continue reading
The ninth issue of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) South Asia newsletter is now available. It provides an overview of the activities of this region from January to June 2022. Continue reading
The 12th issue of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) East and Southeast Asia newsletter is now available. It provides an overview of the activities from January to June 2022 as well as the upcoming activities in the second half of 2022. Continue reading
We would like to share with our donors and partners the list of publications of ILRI East and Southeast Asia publicized from January to June 2022. Thank you. Continue reading
Collaboration opportunities to strengthen Nepal’s livestock sector were top of the agenda when Shri Mahindra Ray Yadav, Nepal’s minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development along with his private secretary, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, visited the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). During the courtesy call to the institute’s New Delhi office on 8 June 2022, Yadav and ILRI’s regional representative for South Asia, Rahman Habibar, discussed technical support in the livestock sector, capacity development and women’s empowerment. Continue reading
Clippings of key national print and online newspapers on the ‘Deliver food safety messages to the community: an integrating approach between researchers and journalists – the case of animal-sourced food’ workshop that took place on 7 June 2022 in celebration of the World Food Safety Day are highlighted in this post. Continue reading
To celebrate the 4th World Food Safety Day (7 June 2022), a media workshop targeting over 40 Vietnamese reporters and researchers from different disciplines (public health, animal health, agriculture) was organized this morning in Hanoi. The ‘Deliver food safety messages to the community: an integrating approach between researchers and journalists – the case of animal-sourced food’ workshop discussed ways of better communicating food safety messages to the public. Continue reading
Để hưởng ứng Ngày An toàn Thực phẩm Thế giới lần thứ 4 (7 tháng 6 năm 2022), tọa đàm báo chí ‘Chuyển tải thông điệp an toàn thực phẩm (ATTP) tới công chúng thông qua tăng cường hợp tác giữa nghiên cứu và báo chí–trường hợp thực phẩm có nguồn gốc động vật’ được tổ chức tại Hà Nội vào cùng ngày với sự tham dự của khoảng 40 phóng viên và nhà nghiên cứu Việt Nam, từ các ngành khác nhau (y tế, thú y, nông nghiệp). Hội thảo nhằm mục đích thảo luận những cách thức truyền thông các thông điệp về ATTP đến công chúng một cách hiệu quả hơn. Continue reading
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