A new four-year project to improve milk quality, safety and marketing in Kenya has been launched by the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB), the International ...

Hon. Abdallah Hamisi Ulega, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, speaking at the ILRI@50 celebrations in Dar es Salaam, ...

The project aims to support global and national biosecurity threats by strengthening zoonotic disease surveillance in Kenya, a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases. Advanced pathogen detection ...

Livestock is a key sector in Uganda, contributing approximately 4.3% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Nearly 60% of households depend on livestock for their livelihoods, with women and ...

Indigenous chicken production is essential for sociology-economic development and improving the livelihoods of Livestock farmers in nearly all rural households In Sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia ...

Precision breeding via genome editing in cattle is a promising approach to rapidly deliver improved germplasms with the desired allele variants suitable for productivity, adaptation and resilience.

New research highlighted in the journal CABI Reviews suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5°C climate change threshold—the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement—by 2040 even ...

World Wildlife Day is commemorated annually on 3 March to celebrate wild animals and plants, and to recognize their unique roles and contributions to people and the planet. To mark this day, ...

Background: Foodborne disease is a great concern to low- and middle-income countries. To prevent illness and death, intervention strategies need to be implemented across the food safety system and ...

According to UN Women, this year's International Women's Day theme is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” This is a call for action that can unlock equal rights, power, and ...