Policy

ILRI News on policy

24 Oct 2019

Towards sustainable food system transformations in the Global South

The world is just eleven harvests away from 2030, but for hundreds of millions of people the goal of ending hunger set forth in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) remains as loftily elusive as ever. What can be done to put the developing world on the right track? Continue...

23 Oct 2019

David Aronson

Enhancing food security through sustainable livestock systems

Iain Wright, deputy director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), gave the keynote presentation at a side event on enhancing food security through innovation in sustainable livestock systems at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) conference held in Rome last week...

17 Oct 2019

Susan MacMillan

ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor

Lindsay Falvey, chair of the board of trustees of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), yesterday received the Crawford Fund Medal at a special World Food Day event held on 16 Oct 2019. Falvey then delivered a public lecture on the role of the next generation of scientists in...

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Publications on policy

Presentation

Published on2018

Sustained food safety action for improved nutrition and health of Africans

Presentation

Published on2018

Research and training partnership to assist food safety in Vietnam and Cambodia

Book

Published on2019

The safe food imperative: Accelerating progress in low- and middle-income countries

Poster

Published on2018

Food safety challenges in traditional pork value chains and policy engagement in Vietnam and Laos

Book Chapter

Published on2018

Climate impacts on disasters, infectious diseases and nutrition

Journal Article

Published on2018

Mapping Nairobi's dairy food system: An essential analysis for policy, industry and research

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ILRI Projects on policy

Feb 2019Mar 2020

Gender at scale (Exploring ‘feminization’ of agriculture through gender dynamics across scales in East Africa)

Feminization of agriculture is a measurable increase of women's participation in the agricultural sector. It is a phenomenon common to many countries particularly in the developing world. Studying the feminization of agriculture with a gender lens is important to understand its prevalence and how...

Jan 2013

Taskforce for risk assessment for food safety in Vietnam: Operational research to assist policy and capacity building

Active

Agricultural policy analysis and coordination in Tanzania

The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Eastern and Central Africa is supporting Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives to establish a Platform for Agricultural Policy Analysis and Coordination in Tanzania to achieve better coordination and...

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