RESEARCH PROJECTS

These country-based or regional projects were selected and funded based on an open, competitive process. Research is conducted by a team, and all projects include both a Principal Investigator and collaborators.

Burkina Faso 

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• Assessment of Aflatoxin-related Health Risk for Milk Consumers in Rural and Peri-urban Areas in Burkina Faso
• "Un Oeuf:" Improving Nutrition in Children Under Two through Increased Egg Consumption in Burkina Faso
• Intervention in Low Guinea Fowl Productivity and Related Products Consumption in Burkina Faso
• Enhancing Egg Consumption through Women’s Empowerment in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso & Niger

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• Enabling Value Chains to Create Sustainable Income for Vulnerable People in Crop-Livestock Systems of Burkina Faso and Niger
• Enhancing the Productivity of Small Ruminants through Improved and Cost-Effective Feeding and Animal Health Interventions (ENHANCE) in Burkina Faso and Niger

Ethiopia

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• Linking Cattle Nutrition to Human Nutrition: A Value Chain Approach to Improving the Production, Handling, and Consumption of Animal Source Foods in Ethiopia
• Improving the Evidence and Policies for Better Performing Livestock Systems in Ethiopia
• Addressing Young Stock Mortality in Smallholder Farms and Pastoral Herds of Ethiopia
• Improving Handling Practices and Microbiological Safety of Milk and Milk Products in Borana Pastoral Communities, Ethiopia
• The Effect of Passive Surveillance Training on Animal Health Parameters, Northern Ethiopia
• Mycotoxin Prevalence and Mitigation Measures in Ethiopia
• Application of Integrated Decision Support Systems to Improve Livestock Systems in Ethiopia: Research and Capacity Development
• Modeling Livestock System Dynamics and Economywide Policy Impacts in Ethiopia
• Feed-to-Farm Investigation of Mycotoxin Contamination of Feed and Milk in Ethiopia

Ethiopia & Burkina Faso

The EQUIP project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

• EQUIP—Strengthening Smallholder Livestock Systems for the Future
• CAGED Study: Campylobacter Genomics and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (Ethiopia only)
• FEED Study

Rwanda

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• Enhancing Milk Quality and Consumption for Improved Income and Nutrition in Rwanda
• Assessment and Mitigation of Aflatoxin and Fumonisin Contamination in Animal Feeds in Rwanda 
• Milk Production Practices, Udder Health and their Impact on Milk Quality, Safety and Processability in Rwanda
• Challenges of Implementing Modern Milk Quality Standards in Developing Countries: Case of Rwanda
• Rwanda Enhancement for Enabling Policy Support to the Dairy Sector
• Aflatoxin Mitigation through Education, Intervention, and Policy in Rwandan Dairy Products
• Engaging Men in Supporting Maternal and Child Consumption of Milk and other Animal-Source Foods in Rwanda

Kenya & Uganda: PPR

• Peste des Petits Ruminants Vaccine Associate Award

Nepal

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• Designing and Evaluating Innovations for Development of Smallholder Female Livestock Cooperatives in Nepal
• Empowerment of Village Women for Detection and Control of Livestock Diseases in Nepal
• Improving Dairy Animal Productivity and Income of Dairy Farmers through Effective Control of Mastitis Disease
• Feeding Support Tool Development for Enhancing Dairy Animal Productivity for Improved Livelihood of Smallholder Dairy Farmers in Nepal
• Strategies to Increase Milk Consumption Among Children in Rural Nepal
• Community-based Goat Breeding Program for Enhancing Productivity and Livelihood of Smallholder Farmers of Different Agro-Ecological Zones in Nepal

Cambodia

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• Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia
• Living Fences for Improved Livestock Feed in Cambodian Smallholder Systems
• Improved Pig Health and Nutrition: The Major Drivers of Profitability and Sustainability for Smallholder Farmers in Cambodia

RESEARCH PROJECTS: Non-competitive

In addition to the competitive awards, non-competitive funding has been granted to two groups:

1. University of Florida faculty members, who lead Cross-Cutting Themes & Areas of Inquiry
2. International Livestock Research Institute, our main implementation partner