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Environmental health and biodiversity

Increasing productivity in food systems 
while staying within environmental boundaries 
and maintaining biodiversity

Environmental health and biodiversity

ILRI research contributes to the CGIAR impact area on Environmental health and biodiversity. 

Agriculture is the biggest driver of forest and biodiversity loss, including of diversity crucial to healthy diets and nutrition. A third of the world’s soils are degraded, and agriculture accounts for about 70% of global freshwater withdrawals. A healthy natural environment and biodiversity are critical for the long-term sustainability of food systems, and human health.

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Environmental health and biodiversity research initiatives

Agronomy

Excellence in Agronomy for Sustainable Intensification and Climate Change Adaptation

Scientist at work

Genebanks

Crop fields

NEXUS Gains: Realizing Multiple Benefits Across Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems

People irrigating crops

Plant Health and Rapid Response to Protect Food Security and Livelihoods

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CGIAR Science Week

CGIAR Science Week

Stakeholder Workshop on WES (Photo Credit: Jianying Feng/UNEP)

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Strengthening wastewater management to improve the environment and public health in Africa

Wildlife co-grazing with livestock

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New operational framework aims to integrate wildlife health into the One Health approach

A dairy farm in the Kenyan highlands (ILRI/Birgit Habermann)

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CIRNA project inception meetings held in Uganda and Kenya

Feedback session with broiler farmers, animal health practitioners and local leaders from Areas 18 and 49 at Glalle Garden, Lilongwe, Malawi (photo credit: ILRI/Joe Magombo).

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ILRI trains poultry farmers on responsible antibiotic use to reduce AMR in Lilongwe, Malawi

World Food forum

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OHRECA fellows secure global One Health prize with innovative proposal on wild meat

A cross-section of the panelists during the "Harnessing investments in multifunctional landscapes to deliver on the Rio Conventions" Panel held on October 25 at the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium at COP16 in Cali, Colombia.

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How multifunctional landscapes can deliver on global biodiversity goals

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Related Publications

Advancing green recovery: Integrating one health in sustainable wildlife management in the Asia-Pacific Indigenous People and Local Communities

  • Sangkachai, N.
  • Wiratsudakul, A.
  • Grace, Delia
  • Whittaker, M.
  • George, A.
  • Nielsen, M.R.
  • Hogarth, N.
  • Pfeiffer, D.U.
  • Smith-Hall, C.
  • Nameer, P.O.
  • Hassan, L.
  • Talukdar, G.
  • Lee, T.M.
  • Mathur, V.B.
  • Rwego, I.B.
  • Compton, J.
  • Mispiratceguy, M.
  • Shi, J.
  • Fine, A.E.
  • Animon, I.
  • Carvalho, K.R. de
  • Taber, A.
  • Newman, S.
  • Thongdee, M.
  • Sariya, L.
  • Tangsudjai, S.
  • Korkijthamkul, W.
  • Sakcamduang, W.
  • Suwanpakdee, S.

A framework for ecologically and socially informed risk reduction before and after outbreaks of wildlife-borne zoonoses

  • Hassell, James M.
  • Angwenyi, Shaleen
  • VanAcker, Meredith C.
  • Adan, A.
  • Bargoiyet, Nelly
  • Bundotich, G.
  • Edebe, J.
  • Fèvre, Eric M.
  • Gichecha, P.
  • Kamau, J.
  • Lekenit, E.
  • Lekopien, A.
  • Leseeto, J.L.
  • Lupempe, K.G.
  • Mathenge, J.
  • Manini, D.
  • Muasa, B.
  • Muturi, M.
  • Ndanyi, R.
  • Ndia, M.
  • Ndung'u, K.
  • Nyaga, N.
  • Rono, B.
  • Murray, S.
  • Worsley-Tonks, K.E.L.
  • Gakuya, F.
  • Lekolool, I.
  • Kahariri, S.
  • Chege, S.

Peste des petits ruminants thermotolerant vaccine production and deployment in the small ruminant value chain in Mali

  • Dione, Michel M.
  • Sidibé, C.A.K.
  • Kantao, O.
  • Sow, Ahmadou

Biodigester circular economy innovation

  • Mulat, Daniel

An operational framework for wildlife health in the One Health approach

  • Goulet, C.
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  • Kock, R.
  • Muset, S.
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A manual on DynModE in GAMS: an environmental extension to DynMod

  • Punt, Cecilia
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One Health for Humans, Environment, Animals and Livelihoods (HEAL)

CIRNA

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Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa (COHESA)

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