Thirty researchers from the ‘Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia’ and the ‘Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam’, or SafePork, projects learned how to ensure gender is integrated into livestock value chains to improve farmers livelihoods.
We would like to share with partners the list of publications of ILRI East and Southeast Asia publicized from July to December 2017 and we hope to hear from you. Thank you. Continue reading
Expanding a ministerial-level food safety working group to influence food safety policy and enhancing collaboration between government and food safety researchers will help strengthen food safety in Cambodia. These were the views of animal health and food safety experts who gathered on 14 December 2017 in Phnom Penh to explore ways of developing the capacity … Continue reading
The International Research Institute (ILRI) is pleased to welcome Long Pham and Thang Nguyen as new PhD fellows in East and Southeast Asia from 1 January 2018. Continue reading
On 22 December 2017 animal and human health experts gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam to discuss ways of disseminating the findings and recommendations of a ‘Surveillance and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos’, or Pestforecast project. Continue reading
Clippings of key national print and online newspaper as of 22 November 2017 on the Science and Partnership 2017: The Role of Livestock in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia. Continue reading
A Science and Partnership Workshop 2017: The Role of Livestock in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia being held 16 November 2017 in Hanoi brought together 60 leading livestock experts and policymakers from 8 Asian countries. The experts discussed ways to strengthen the many current and potential contributions of the region’s livestock sector to sustainable livelihoods and to the prosperity of 100 million people in the region. Continue reading
A preliminary study in Ba Vi, a northwest district of Hanoi in 2017, provided indicators of livestock emission factors which could be compared with the estimated emission factors. The study was carried out by scientists from the Institute of Agricultural Environment (IAE), the Vietnam National University of Agriculture and ILRI who presented their findings at a seminar on ‘Greenhouse gases in livestock sector in Vietnam’ at ILRI’s Hanoi office on 19 October 2017. Continue reading
Towards the end of the peri-urban human animal environment interface (PeriMilk) project that the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been implementing in India together with the Public Health Foundation of India and Indian universities, ILRI invited 30 brucellosis and animal health and zoonoses experts to a one-day workshop. Continue reading
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