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Workshop Identifies Challenges, Strategies for Improving Food Safety
Livestock / ILRI / Food Safety / Zoonotic Diseases / A4NH / Animal Diseases

Workshop Identifies Challenges, Strategies for Improving Food Safety

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The workshop “Better Targeting Food Safety Investments in Low and Middle Income Countries,” hosted by the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), brought together policymakers, researchers, donors, and others to delve into the challenges impeding poor people’s access to safe foods throughout the world. Continue reading →

Vietnam launches report on better managing risks to food safety
A4NH / Animal Health / East and Southeast Asia / Event / ILRI / Livestock / Pigs / Report / Research / Value Chains / Vietnam

Vietnam launches report on better managing risks to food safety

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Originally posted on ILRI news:
? Cover of the new World Bank food safety in Vietnam report. This post is written by Chi Nguyen, communications officer for ILRI in East and Southeast Asia (c.nguyen [at] cgiar.org). A report launched this week on managing risks to food safety in Vietnam was prepared by the World Bank…

A deep dive inside Vietnam’s pork foodshed to determine food safety issues and their practical resolutions
A4NH / Agri-Health / Agriculture / Food Safety / ILRI / Markets / Pigs / policy / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam

A deep dive inside Vietnam’s pork foodshed to determine food safety issues and their practical resolutions

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Originally posted on ILRI news:
Selling pork at a traditional ‘wet’ market in Hung Yen province, northern Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/HUPH/Ngan Tran). Pork meat sold in Vietnam has been found by researchers to commonly carry bacteria that could cause disease—but they also found that the risk of that meat sickening people is largely reduced due…

Making livestock foods safe—Lessons from Vietnam on what works—and what doesn’t
A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / Food Safety / Pigs / policy / Southeast Asia / Vietnam

Making livestock foods safe—Lessons from Vietnam on what works—and what doesn’t

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Originally posted on ILRI news:
At the Sunday market in Sapa, northern Vietnam, women butcher hogs slaughtered outside of town but still steaming when they start working on them at the market (image via Flickr/Kurt Johnson). From ‘Background’ ‘Food-borne diseases and food poisonings are attracting a lot of attention in Vietnam due to repeated episodes…

A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / Asia / CCAFS / CGIAR / Emerging Diseases / ILRI / Southeast Asia / Vietnam / Zoonotic Diseases

One Health, many tools for forecasting climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam

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A team of researchers from ILRI and national climate, agricultural and health (human, animal and plant) institutes, is developing forecasting systems in Vietnam for three climate-sensitive zoonotic diseases, Japanese encephalitis, leptospirosis and aflatoxin-associated diseases. Titled, “Pestforecast: Surveillance and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam”, the four-year project which started in 2015, is supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in Southeast Asia. Continue reading →

A4NH / AHH / Animal Diseases / East and Southeast Asia / Event / ILRI / Livestock / Pigs / Project / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam

ILRI pork safety project holds mid-term review in Vietnam

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In March 2016 the PigRisk project, which focuses on food safety and pork value chains, held its mid-term review. This five-year project (2012–2017) aims to improve the livelihoods of rural and urban poor in Vietnam by creating better opportunities and incomes from pig value chains as a result of reduced risks associated with pork-borne diseases. The project is led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Continue reading →

A4NH / Animal Diseases / Disease Control / East and Southeast Asia / Emerging Diseases / ILRI / Indonesia / Launch / Southeast Asia / Vietnam / Zoonotic Diseases

One Health partnership to control zoonoses in Vietnam launched

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In an effort to step up control of zoonotic diseases, or diseases transmitted from animals to humans, the framework for One Health Partnership for Zoonoses (OHP), an initiative by the Vietnamese government, was officially launched in Hanoi on 1 March 2016. Continue reading →