Snapshots of research in 2020

Enjoy a few photos from 2020, with links to the projects and events they represent. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, our work continued. We were also fortunate to receive a renewal award from USAID for… Read More
Posted: December 14, 2020
Enjoy a few photos from 2020, with links to the projects and events they represent. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, our work continued. We were also fortunate to receive a renewal award from USAID for… Read More
Category: Health & Nutrition, Livestock, UF/IFAS Research
Posted: March 17, 2020
A new business supplying animal feeds to rural Niger is helping to overcome vast distances and other hurdles that constrain the productivity and incomes of goat and sheep farmers. Though 90 percent of the rural… Read More
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Livestock
Tags: business, feed, international development, Niger, research, trade
Posted: February 24, 2020
“Bicycle chicken” is a national dish in Burkina Faso, and even Bill Gates shared a video about it and blogged that chicken rearing can reduce extreme poverty. But what about the eggs? Recent research in… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Livestock
Tags: Burkina Faso, children, eggs, intervention, mothers, nutrition, resilience
Posted: February 20, 2020
The blog post Field Notes – To Meat or Not to Meat: Balancing Global Viewpoints in Battles over Food was published on February 18, 2020 by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Read the original story… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Livestock
Tags: children, human health, malnutrition, nutrition, policy, stunting
Posted: February 11, 2020
In April 2019, the Cambodian government confirmed the presence of African Swine Fever, which is extremely fatal to pigs and has spread into nine east Asian countries since 2018. The disease can devastate the holdings… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Livestock, Pests & Disease, Professional Development
Tags: Cambodia, disease, food safety, innovation, international development, livestock, policy, pork
Posted: October 1, 2019
◊ by Judy Kimani and Chi Nguyen ◊ Cambodia has a rich tradition of tasty and nutritious foods. Animal-source foods (ASFs) are an important part of the cuisine, with the most widely consumed ASF products… Read More
Category: Livestock, Pests & Disease
Tags: Asia, Cambodia, disease, Feed the Future, food safety, market, pork, survey
Posted: March 13, 2019
by Judy Kimani, International Livestock Research Institute ◊ Gabura Amata Mubyeyi, translated from Kinyarwanda, means “Parents, Give Milk.” This phrase communicates one of the core messages resulting from an ongoing research project in Rwanda. Many… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Livestock, UF/IFAS
Tags: Africa, communicating, cooperative, household, human health, income, milk, nutrition, pregnancy, Rwanda, value chain
Posted: February 5, 2019
by Rogers Adiba, Mercy Corps Uganda ◊ To show impact later, you need to measure what you have at the start. Simple enough. However, conducting research in remote areas requires a diligent team effort and… Read More
Posted: December 3, 2018
by Jeanne Coffin-Schmitt, Tufts University ◊ Within the remote sub region of Karamoja in northeast Uganda, livestock diseases are an ongoing problem. Further, limited knowledge about the occurrence and spread of diseases such as Peste… Read More
Category: Livestock, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Africa, disease, goat, international, PPR, ufifasglobal, vaccine
Posted: October 8, 2018
Although the future by definition remains unknown, new research techniques are helpful for predicting and understanding potential trends in livestock systems. To this end, a series of workshops are being planned for several countries, following… Read More
Category: Livestock, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: future, international, livestock, market, modeling, policy, trade
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