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Injection of new genetics funding to boost the health and productivity of...

‘Climate-smart’ native disease-resistant sheep being raised in western Kenya (photo credit: S Kilungu/CCAFS). ‘Efforts to tackle the challenges faced by livestock farmers in developing countries have...

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Manure: A valuable resource—a 3-part webinar on a ‘win-win-win-win-win’...

The Livestock and Manure Management project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University & Research Centre (Wageningen UR) invite you to join a...

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Goat meat—which makes up 60% of red meat worldwide—begins to go mainstream in...

Typical Somali goat of the Horn of Africa (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘When you think of goat meat, fragrant Jamaican curries, like the ones served up from colourful street stalls at the Notting...

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Fighting climate change in a post-modernist world of pop art politics—Opinion...

Pop by Roy Lichtenstein, 1966. As someone has said, none of the numerous action plans being proposed by the elite networks of decision-making bodies today are going to make a difference if the world’s...

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Science: The fuel for human progress—by Bill Gates

Slide from a keynote presentation made by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute, at the Tropentag Conference, in Prague, 17 Sep 2014 (image credit: ILRI). Go...

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Appolinaire Djikeng, of BecA-ILRI Hub, appointed director of leading tropical...

Appolinaire Djikeng (centre) with (left to right) Alistair Stott (Scotland’s Rural College), David Hume, Bruce Whitelaw (both Roslin Institute) and Steve Kemp (ILRI) (photo credit: Roslin...

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DFID/UKAid fund British, ILRI, African genetics research to advance African...

ILRI geneticist Olivier Hanotte carries out work on chicken samples in Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). ‘. . . International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt announced the...

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The British High Commissioner to Kenya visits ILRI’s Nairobi livestock labs...

H.E Nic Hailey, British High Commissioner to Kenya (fourth left), led a delegation from the British High Commission in Nairobi on a visit to ILRI on 31 July 2018 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu)....

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Scottish gene-edited chickens produced to help stop bird flu

Gallo, 1977, by Aldemir Martins (via Wikiart). ‘Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do happen. In fact, scientists are so...

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Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the...

RCVS Knowledge, the charity partner of the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has awarded its inaugural Plowright Prize to Professor William Ivan Morrison of the University of Edinburgh for...

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