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Item Eating wild meat carries serious health risks—why it still happens along the Kenya-Tanzania border(Blog Post, 2025-06-08) Patel, Ekta; Fa, J.E.Item Preventing the next pandemic: One Health researcher calls for urgent action(Blog Post, 2025-06-03) Hung Nguyen-VietItem Ethiopian Livestock and Fisheries Investment Handbook(Manual, 2025-01-30) Lubango, K.; Takele, D.; Jembere, T.; Sime, A.; Mekonnen, M.; Getachew, F.; Tassew, B.; Lakew, A.; Kasaye, A.; Begna, D.; Eshete, Y.; Wolde, A.; Tilahun, F.; Zewedu, Y.; Seyum, W.; Lachebo, N.; Teferi, M.; Tessema, G.; Legese, GetachewItem Handbook for Kenyan dairy farmers(Manual, 2025-01-15) VanLeeuwen, J.; Mellish, K.; Richards, ShaunaItem Wild meat is eaten by millions, but puts billions at risk – how to manage the trade(Blog Post, 2025-04-09) Grace, Delia; Hung Nguyen-Viet; Staal, Steven J.Item Cross-border, cascading climate risks and the Least Developed Countries Group: catalysing management options within the UNFCCC(Brief, 2025-02-01) Opitz-Stapleton, S.; Lindsay, C.; Seck, E.; Kaba, F.; Cramer, Laura K.Item Stopping mpox: wild meat markets are a root cause and must be made safer(Blog Post, 2024-11-05) Lam, Steven; Grace, DeliaIn many countries around the world, wild animals are sometimes killed for food, including monkeys, rats and squirrels. Wild meat makes significant contributions to nutrition in Africa and to satisfying food preferences in Asia. In Africa, the annual harvest of wild meat, estimated at between 1 million and 5 million metric tonnes, is substantial compared to the continent’s livestock production of about 14 million metric tonnes per year. Public health researchers have long highlighted unhygienic wild meat practices as potentially harmful due to the risk of pathogens jumping from animals to humans, especially through close contact during hunting, processing or consuming undercooked meat.Item Improving diagnostics for aflatoxin detection(Brief, 2013) Harvey, Jagger; Gnonlonfin, Benoit; Fletcher, Mary; Fox, Glen; Trowell, Stephen; Berna, Amalia; Nelson, Rebecca; Darnell, RossItem Animals and aflatoxins(Brief, 2013) Grace, DeliaItem Tackling aflatoxins: An overview of challenges and solutions(Brief, 2013) Unnevehr, Laurian J.; Grace, DeliaItem Reducing enteric methane emissions via low-methane forages(Brief, 2024) Arango, Jacobo; Costa, Ciniro; Flintan, Fiona E.; Marshall, Suzie; Mukherji, AditiItem Reducing enteric methane emissions via methane inhibitors(Brief, 2024) Flintan, Fiona E.; Jacobo, Arango; Costa, Ciniro; Marshall, Suzie; Mukherji, AditiItem 2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture(Report, 2024) Mukherji, Aditi; Marshall, Suzie; Arango, Jacobo; Costa, Ciniro; Flintan, Fiona E.; Hebebrand, Charlotte; Kihara, Job Maguta; Masso, Cargele; Molloy, Patrick; Rusinamhodzi, Leonard; Sapkota, Tek Bahadur; Vanlauwe, BernardItem Linear Models for the Prediction of the Genetic Merit of Animals(Book, 2023-10-13) Mrode, Raphael A.; Pocrnic, IvanItem Escaping poverty traps and unlocking prosperity in the face of climate risk: Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance(Book, 2024-06-20) Jensen, Nathaniel D.; Fava, Francesco P.; Mude, Andrew G.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Wandera-Gache, Brenda; Vrieling, Anton; Taye, Masresha; Takahashi, Kazushi; Lung, Felix; Ikegami, Munenobu; Ericksen, Polly J.; Chelanga, Philemon; Chantarat, Sommarat; Carter, Michael; Bashir, Hassan; Banerjee, Rupsha R.This Element outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management products and policies across Africa. General insights are provided on i) the economics of poverty, risk management, and drylands development; ii) the evolving use of modern remote sensing and data science tools in development; iii) the science of scaling; and iv) the value and challenges of integrating research with operational implementation to tackle development and humanitarian challenges in some of the world's poorest regions.Item How will training traders contribute to improved food safety in informal markets for meat and milk? A theory of change analysis(Working Paper, 2015-07-24) Johnson, Nancy L.; Mayne, John; Grace, Delia; Wyatt, AmandaIncreased consumption of meat, milk, eggs, and fish among poor consumers in developing countries has the potential to improve nutrition as well as drive pro-poor economic development. However, animal-source foods are a major source of food-borne disease. In addition to the health impacts, concerns about food safety can reduce consumption of nutritious foods and reduce market access for smallholders. Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute and partners have developed and piloted an institutional innovation—a training, certification, and branding scheme for informal value chain actors—that has the potential to improve the safety of animal-source foods sold in informal markets. To support further research and, eventually, delivery at scale, this paper develops a theory of change for how the intervention is expected to contribute to better nutrition and health outcomes for consumers. The outcomes along the pathway from intervention to impact are identified, along with the underlying causal assumptions. For each assumption, the existing evidence is summarized and assessed. The results show that for some parts of the impact pathway, outcomes and causal links are well defined and supported by evidence, while for others, the program logic needs to be refined and more evidence gathered to validate hypothesized causal relationships in specific contexts. Addressing these gaps through research and through piloting interventions with development partners can increase the likelihood of achieving expected outcomes and contribute to learning about how to improve the performance of informal markets in developing countries.Item Animal-inclusive community-led total sanitation (A-CLTS)(Brief, 2024-07-01) IMA World HealthWith the support of a generous philanthropic foundation, IMA World Health and its partners conducted an Animal-inclusive Community-led Total Sanitation (A-CLTS) project in Segou, Mali. The project piloted an innovative WASH model that integrated animal waste management into CLTS based on extensive formative research to tailor interventions to the realities of rural Malian households. With partners USCET, the One Health Center at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and leading academic research partners, IMA World Health implemented a community intervention trial and conducted a series of workshops with community members and other key stakeholders to identify A-CLTS behavior change strategies that community members felt they could adopt and that have been demonstrated to impact child and family health elsewhere. This model can be adapted to other contexts as its results are likely relevant to other settings.Item Putting animals on the WASH agenda(Brief, 2024-07-15) Le Deunff, H.Animal species are an integral part of the systems that supply our drinking water and ensure that we live healthy lives. Yet, interventions to promote water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) often fail to consider animals’ roles, needs, and impacts on the services and implications of WASH systems for animals with whom we share water sources. This policy brief proposes pathways to help WASH policymakers, practitioners, and researchers address risks and opportunities at the animal-human-water interface. It shows that WASH programmes applied simultaneously to humans and animals are likely to provide more sustainable results than those centred on humans only and help achieve outcomes in every aspect of life fuelled by water.Item Antibiotic use on Kenya’s dairy farms is putting consumers and animals at risk(Blog Post, 2024-02-21) Muloi, Dishon M.; Moodley, ArshneeFarmers often use antibiotics to keep their livestock healthy. They’re sometimes used as “quick fixes”, to avoid more costly management measures like regular disinfection, waste management, routine vaccination or provision of clean drinking water. Animal husbandry now accounts for about two thirds of the global consumption of antibiotics. As livestock and fish production grows, by 2030 the consumption of antibiotics is projected to increase by 67%. Worryingly, this overuse in food animal production can create problems for both animals and people.Item Three-legged stool model for improving food safety in informal markets in LMICs(Blog Post, 2024-01-08) Kuboka, Maureen