Category Archives: Markets

Under SPS and markets, we work on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues, growing market requirements for food safety and quality that constrain market access by smallholders (including appropriate development of smallholder dairy markets).

‘Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia’—Future directions for scaling up the project’s interventions
Advocacy / AHH / Cambodia / East and Southeast Asia / Food Safety / ILRI / Markets / Meat / Pigs / Poultry / Research / Southeast Asia / Zoonotic Diseases

‘Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia’—Future directions for scaling up the project’s interventions

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For two days last month (21–22 Jun 2021), food safety experts from across Cambodia and a research project team led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) gathered to discuss ways to disseminate findings and scale up interventions of a ‘Safe Food, Fair Food (SFFF) for Cambodia’ project that was ending after four years of operation. Continue reading →

ILRI launches livestock research for development programs in Nepal
Advocacy / Agriculture / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Collaboration / Food Safety / Forages / ILRI / Livelihoods / Livestock / Markets / Nepal / Research / South Asia

ILRI launches livestock research for development programs in Nepal

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Bimal Kumar Nirmal, acting secretary in Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), officially launched ILRI’s livestock research programs in the country on 23 April 2021 at an inception meeting hosted by ILRI and MoALD in Kathmandu. Continue reading →

Australia-funded safe pork project in Vietnam reviews 2020 achievements and sets goals for 2021
A4NH / AHH / East and Southeast Asia / Food Safety / Human Health / Livestock / Markets / Meat / Pigs / Southeast Asia / Vietnam

Australia-funded safe pork project in Vietnam reviews 2020 achievements and sets goals for 2021

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In late November 2021, the ‘Market-based approach to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam,’ or SafePORK project team and partners held an annual planning meeting in Ninh Binh Province, about 100 kilometres south of Hanoi. The two-day workshop, which was hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Vietnam, reviewed the accomplishments of the project in 2020 and set project goals for 2021 and beyond. Continue reading →

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…

Animal Feeding / Cattle / Crop Residues / Crop-Livestock / East and Southeast Asia / Feeds / Fodder / ILRI / Markets / Project

Making hay: Indonesia study reveals opportunities for fodder markets in East Java

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A final stakeholder workshop of a project that examined the factors, processes and incentives that influence Indonesian livestock farmers and their participation in feed markets in the country took place on 23 August 2016 in East Java, Indonesia. Continue reading →

Asia / ASSP / Bihar / Goats / ILRI / India / Innovation Systems / Livestock / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Markets / Odisha / Research / Small Ruminants / South Asia / Uttar Pradesh

Huge potential in commercializing the smallholder goat sector in India

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According to a report undertaken by the International Livestock Research Institute report on ‘commercializing the smallholder goat sector in India’, there is huge potential to enhance the livelihoods of and business opportunities for poor farmers in the rural areas of the states of Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. Continue reading →

Crop-Livestock / East and Southeast Asia / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Livelihoods / Markets / Pigs / PIL / Report / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam

New report identifies interventions to improve crop-livestock value chains in northwest Vietnam

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A new report that explains how mixed (crop and livestock) farmers in Vietnam can raise their farm productivity and marketing practices to improve their livelihoods is now available. Continue reading →

Article / Asia / Event / ILRI / Indigenous Breeds / Livelihoods / Livestock / Markets / Partnerships / Philippines / Pigs / Project / Research / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam

ILRI and Southeast Asia partners make plans for improved native pig farming in Vietnam and the Philippines

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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and partners in Southeast Asia have started a series of market research and value chain improvement efforts aimed at improving smallholder pig farming in the Philippines and Vietnam. Continue reading →

A4NH / East and Southeast Asia / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Livelihoods / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Markets / Pigs / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam

Bringing home the bacon, a Vietnamese native pig-farming success story

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Originally posted on VietPigs:
After buying six sows from ethnic minority villages in Vietnam in 2009, Nguyen Van Minh began raising native/indigenous pigs. Six years on, Nguyen, affectionately known as Mr Duc, had increased that number to 130 sows, and was supplying around 500 slaughter pigs annually to the market. His annual earnings had grown…

Crop Residues / Crop-Livestock / East and Southeast Asia / Feeds / Fodder / ILRI / Indonesia / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Markets / Southeast Asia

Indonesia project to improve smallholder farmer access to fodder markets

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A new project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) that will improve marketing and access to livestock fodder for Indonesia’s smallholder farmers has officially begun. Continue reading →