The Dairy Genetics East Africa (DGEA) project’s success hinges on the participation of small holders dairy farmers and their willingness to share their knowledge and practices. Selected project sites include Kaptumo, Siongiroi, Meteitei, Kabras, Butere/Khwisero in Kenya and Wakiso, Bushyenyi in Uganda. On 27th of June, a field trip in the Kenyan sites to monitor … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Renewed research efforts to tackle African Swine Fever (ASF), ILRI Biotech/BecA collaborative project in the New Agriculturist
Causing up to 100 per cent mortality in previously unaffected animals, African Swine Fever (ASF) is a devastating disease of pigs. Endemic across much of Africa, the disease poses a wider threat to global food security, particularly in East Asia, where at least 50 per cent of the protein consumed is pork, much of it … Continue reading »
Molecular characterization of live Theileria parva sporozoite vaccine stabilates reveals extensive genotypic diversity: Highlighting our publications
‘Highlighting our publications’ is a new blog series that will feature publications from the Biotech theme. The success of scientific research is greatly pegged on existing information and published scientific work to provide crucial information and knowledge that is important to the progress of science. Our publications represent the latest results in areas such as: … Continue reading »
Korea National Institute of Animal Science project partners visit ILRI
The ILRI-RDA (Rural Development of Administration) research project, among the Biotech’s improving characterization of livestock and pathogens (BT02) project is this week (20-25 November) hosting visitors from the National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), Korea. The visitors, Jeong-Ro Ki, director of Planning and Coordination Division, Boh-suk Yang director of Animal Genetic Resources Station and Seong-Heum … Continue reading »
How bioscience is revolutionising the 21st century
‘Animal Health and Genetics’ was an interesting discussion session at last week’s LiveSTOCK Exchange event. This session was introduced by Vish Nene, the Theme Director of the ILRI Biotech group and he focused on 3 broad areas where science will revolutionize the 21st century. They are: Computer revolution Quantum revolution Bio-molecular revolution Computer Revolution: A … Continue reading »
BT03 / Event / Indigenous Breeds / Project / Research
Animal Genetics Training Resource (AGTR) version 3 Officially Released!
Yesterday afternoon the new fully Web-enabled platform Animal Genetics Training Resource (AGTR) (http://agtr.ilri.cgiar.org) was launched at the LiveSTOCK Exchange event which took stock of ILRI’s research over the last ten years at the ILRI Addis Ababa, Ethiopia campus, the event was held on 9-10 November. While launching the new resource, Julie Ojango said that this … Continue reading »
BT01 / BT02 / BT03 / Event / Film and Video
LiveSTOCK Exchange video reflections: The Biotech angle
As part of the reflection for the November 2011 liveSTOCK Exchange seminar at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Biotech scientists: Roger Pelle, Phil Toye, Steve Kemp and Okeyo Mwai share their reflections on some of the changes they have observed and have been part off over the years in a series of … Continue reading »
