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International Livestock Research Institute - Kenia (ILRI)
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Application of genomics and proteomics to camel Streptococcus agalactiae: development of vaccines and diagnostics to support camel milk marketing through improved control of mastitis
- Boosting Uganda’s investment in livestock development (BuildUganda): Diagnostic and characterization of PPRV and RVFV including vectors (Component 1 & 2)
- Enhanced control of CBPP in sub Saharan Africa through development of better diagnostics and vaccines
- Generating a framework for strategic improvement and adoption of superior dual-purpose (groundnut) cultivars in mixed crop livestock systems in drought prone areas
- Improving the livelihoods of poor live-stock keepers in Africa through community based management of indigenous farm animal genetic resources
- Improving the value of maize as livestock feed and to enhance the livelihoods of maize-livestock farmers in East Africa
- Investigating the pathogenicity mechanisms of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) - the most devasting cattle disease in Africa
- Preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa (Phase II)
- Safe food, fair food: Building capacity to improve the safety of animal-source foods and ensure continued market access for poor farmers in sub Saharan Africa
- Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists to climatic change in West and Southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach (CLIMATE CHANGE)
Involved in research projects
- Boosting Uganda’s investment in livestock development (BuildUganda): Diagnostic and characterization of PPRV and RVFV including vectors (Component 1 & 2)
- Enhanced control of CBPP in sub Saharan Africa through development of better diagnostics and vaccines
- Integrated control of neglected zoonoses: improving human health and animal production through scientific innovation and public engagement (ICONZ)
- Mutual learning of livestock keepers and scientists for adaptation to climate change in pastoral areas
- Options and restrictions on the use of local animal populations in low-resource production systems
- Towards rational design of vaccines against African swine fever in East- and Southern Africa: Correlation of viral genome differences with their impact virulence and by analysis of viral and target cell transcription and protein expression.
Contact
International Livestock Research Institute - Kenia
(ILRI)
P.O.Box 30709
Nairobi
Kenya
Kenya