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Nutrition, health and food security

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Nutrition, health and food security

ILRI research contributes to the CGIAR impact area on Nutrition, health and food security. 

If recent trends continue, the number of under-nourished people will surpass 840 million by 2030. Human health is threatened by poor food safety and diseases transmitted within food systems. Diet-related non-communicable diseases are also increasing across the globe. Food security, health and nutrition are paramount not only for overall human wellbeing, but also for securing livelihoods and economic development.

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Innovations

Nutrition, health and food security research initiatives

Fruit

National Policies and Strategies for Food, Land and Water Systems Transformation

People irrigating crops

Plant Health and Rapid Response to Protect Food Security and Livelihoods

Livestock

Protecting Human Health Through a One Health Approach

Woman selling fish

Resilient Cities Through Sustainable Urban and Peri-Urban Agrifood Systems

Farmer on the field

Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems

Woman with seeds

Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia

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Improved pigs

2nd International Conference on Neglected Tropical Diseases Research in Africa

MoU) with seven Ethiopian universities: Adigrat, Aksum, Raya, Mekele, Jimma, Bonga and Ambo

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ILRI signs agreements with seven universities to collaborate on practical innovations for Ethiopia’s dairy sector

One Health workshop participants in Senegal (photo credit: ILRI/Geoffrey Njenga).

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Senegal workshop advances collaboration and sets priorities for strengthening One Health in West Africa

Team photo

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Fostering collaboration between CGIAR and French institutions toward agriculture and health

Black soldier fly larvae

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If you look for local innovations, you will find them: Exciting next steps for the Living Lab for People in Nandi County

Calf (ILRI/Susan MacMillan).

Reducing livestock abortions and calf mortality to improve food security and lower GHG emissions in Tanzania and Kenya

Pipetting of reagents (Photo Credit: ILRI/Saleef Nyambo)

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CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub enhances the capacity of laboratory professionals across low- and middle-income countries against antimicrobial resistance

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Adapting the Women's empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya

  • Lentz, E.
  • Jensen, Nathaniel D.
  • Lepariyo, Watson
  • Narayanan, S.
  • Bageant, E.

Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species and associated risk factors for contamination of milk and cottage cheese along the value chains in Ethiopia

  • Hassen, A.
  • Keba, Abdi
  • Ebrai, M.S.
  • Mamo, H.
  • Geleta, T.K.
  • Tessema, T.S.
  • Vipham, J.
  • Kovac, J.
  • Zewdu, A.

Dog demography and ecology with reference to rabies in the Amhara region, Ethiopia

  • Adnie, L.Y.
  • Jemberu, Wudu T.
  • Woreta, A.B.
  • Berju, A.
  • Mengistu, A.
  • Wondie, Z.T.
  • Molla, W.
  • Mekonnen, S.A.

The impact of training intervention on levels of indicator bacteria and prevalence of selected pathogens in raw milk from smallholder women dairy farmers in Central Ethiopia

  • Beyene, A.M.
  • Nigatu, S.
  • Archila-Godinez, J.C.
  • Amenu, Kebede
  • Kowalcyk, B.
  • Degefaw, D.
  • Mogess, B.
  • Gelaw, B.
  • Gizachew, M.
  • Mengistu, A.
  • Abdelhamid, A.G.
  • Barkley, J.
  • Yousef, A.

Integrated community-based reporting and field diagnostics for improved rabies surveillance in rural Laikipia, Kenya

  • Odinga, Christian O.
  • Thomas, Lian F.
  • Wambugu, E.
  • Ferguson, A.W.
  • Fèvre, Eric M.
  • Gibson, A.
  • Hassell, James M.
  • Muloi, Dishon M.
  • Murray, S.
  • Surmat, A.
  • Mwai, P.M.
  • Woodroffe, R.
  • Ngatia, D.
  • Gathura, P.M.
  • Waitumbi, J.
  • Worsley-Tonks, Katherine E.L.

Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistant diarrheagenic Escherichia coli pathotypes from children, livestock and food in Dagoretti South, Nairobi Kenya

  • Okumu, Noah O.
  • Muloi, Dishon M.
  • Moodley, Arshnee
  • Ochieng, Linnet
  • Watson, J.
  • Kiarie, Alice
  • Ngeranwa, J.J.N.
  • Cumming, O.
  • Cook, Elizabeth A.J.
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