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Hanoi workshop held on providing safer pork products in Vietnam

A local pork vendor at the wet market sells her meat to two local women, Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen).

This article is written by Chi Nguyen, communications officer for ILRI Asia.

A two-day workshop, 7–8 Sep 2017, on the topic of ‘Improving food safety along the pork value chain—lessons learned and ways forward’, kicked off at the Hanoi Hotel on Thursday…

Lessons learnt out of Africa: 19 factors not to underestimate in rural livestock/agricultural research for development

Robyn Alders at her poultry work with her village partners in central Tanzania (photo via The Canberra Times).

Robyn Alders, a veterinarian, village poultry expert and associate professor at the University of Sydney’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences, gave a particularly candid and interesting presentation at a seminar/webinar held on 4 May 2017 at the headquarters of the International…

Simplistic livestock solutions no help for poor people in transition from smallholders to ‘smartholders’

  Australian Nobel laureate Peter Doherty (left), former chair of the program committee of the ILRI Board of Trustees, and Lindsay Falvey, current chair of the ILRI Board of Trustees. 

Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), who previously led the World Bank’s global livestock portfolio, was in Australia last week, talking to ILRI’s scientific…

Jimmy Smith in Australia makes the case for greater investments in pro-poor livestock development

Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI (photo: ILRI/Paul Karaimu).

The livestock sector plays a significant role in development, but Dr. Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute, says this is not reflected in official development assistance—which contributes less than 0.25 percent to livestock.

‘[Jimmy] Smith visited Australia between April 3 and April 7,…

Bacteria pose bigger risk than chemical contamination of Vietnamese pork—New research

Selling pork at a traditional ‘wet’ market in Hung Yen province, northern Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/HUPH/Ngan Tran).

‘Forty eight out of 108 (44 per cent) cut pork meat samples collected at wet markets in Hưng Yên Province were found to contain the disease-causing bacteria Salmonella. . . .

‘The researchers determined that the probability of pork eaters in northern Hưng Yên Province becoming…

Making livestock foods safe—Lessons from Vietnam on what works—and what doesn’t

At the Sunday market in Sapa, northern Vietnam, women butcher hogs slaughtered outside of town but still steaming when they start working on them at the market (image via Flickr/Kurt Johnson).

From ‘Background’ ‘Food-borne diseases and food poisonings are attracting a lot of attention in Vietnam due to repeated episodes of adulterated and unsafe food practices receiving widespread media…

Farmers coping with on-going drought in southern Africa need better weather advice and insurance

Feed is scarce for livestock in the dry season in Zimbabwe. Farmers can lose up to 30% of their herds in these three months (photo credit: Swathi Sridharan/ICRISAT).

‘Southern African farmers facing hunger as a result of worsening drought know a lot about climate change but lack the resources to put solutions that work into place, agriculture and development researchers say. . . .

‘In many…