Gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in a market-oriented agricultural...
This manual by Lemlem Aregu, Clare Bishop-Sambrook and Ranjitha Puskur of ILRI and Aresawum Mengesha, Ephrem Tesema and Zahra Ali – independent consultants on Gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in a...
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The needs of the poor are greater than the money available to help them, but that’s not enough to discourage Bill Gates in his work as co-chair of the world’s largest charitable foundation. In his...
View ArticleCould Rift Valley fever be a weapon of mass destruction? An insidious...
The Fifth Plague: Livestock Disease, woodcut by Gustave Doré, 1866 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Anthrax, bird flu , Ebola, HIV-AIDS, H1N1, H5N1, influenza, Rift Valley fever, SARS: What are...
View ArticleGuinea pigs for African tables? A ‘Cavy Innovation Platform’ is set up in...
Cavies (aka guinea pigs) in a special pig pantry off the side of a kitchen in Peru (photo on Flickr by Emile Hardman/QuintanaRoo). Could guinea pigs be a new protein source in Africa? In a special...
View ArticleThe ecology of disease: NYT cites ILRI study in report on rising threat of...
Illustration by Olaf Hajek, in The New York Times Sunday Review: ‘The Ecology of disease’, 14 Jul 2012. Jim Robbins in The New York Times Sunday Review today writes about the ways breakdowns in the...
View Article‘Crypto’ and other diseases we get from animals are on the rise in poor...
Leonard Gitau, a small-scale livestock farmer in Dagoretti, Nairobi, speaks to journalists during a media tour of urban farmers in Nairobi on 21 Sep 2012 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Sarah Ooko,...
View ArticleBy the (BIG) numbers: The MDGs and (BIG) global reductions in child, maternal...
The astrolabe, magnificent computer of the ancients (via Pinterest and t-s-k-b.tumbler.com). The latest from Bill Gates: ‘This month, leaders from around the world will get together at the UN to agree...
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