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Institutional news
New livestock project to improve rural livelihoods in northwest Vietnam
 The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock recently launched a new research-for-development project in Son La Province, northwest of Vietnam. This project will promote and scale up livestock-based technologies to generate better livelihoods for local livestock keepers, with a particular focus on ethnic minorities. Read more
One Health experts in south and southeast Asia join efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance in people and animals
 Policymakers, human and animal health researchers and investors from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam met at a One Health and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research coordination workshop on 7–9 October in Hanoi to discuss the challenges impeding efforts to combat AMR and identify ways to better coordinate AMR interventions in the region. Read more
International One Health Day: videos by ILRI and partners on One Health in action
 On 3 November 2019 ILRI East and Southeast Asia and its partners joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International One Health Day by sharing (video) stories of One Health in action to draw people’s attention to the need for a One Health approach in addressing global health threats. Read more
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Project events
Field experiences from the first RHoMIS tool application in Vietnam
 For the first time in Vietnam, the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) tool was used in a nutrition study led by ILRI and the Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry (TNUAF). The study compared household diet diversity data with data collected from the same household over a 12-month recall period. Read more
Behaviour change interventions key to preventing and reducing pork-borne illnesses in northern Vietnam
 New research shows that occurrences of pork-borne parasitic diseases in native Ban pig populations for selected areas of northern Vietnam may be lower than previously thought. However, behaviour change is needed to strengthen pork safety to further minimize the risk of pork-borne illnesses in communities. Read more
ILRI research on food safety presented and awarded at SafePORK conference in Berlin
 Findings from food safety and zoonoses research by scientists from ILRI and partners were presented and awarded (best poster) at the 13th International Symposium on the epidemiology and control of biological, chemical and physical hazards in the pork value chain, or SafePork conference, held 26–29 August 2019. Read more
New statistical modeling study helps forecast dengue fever risks in Vietnam
 Researchers at ILRI and its partners have developed a statistical model for forecasting dengue fever incidence in Vietnam that could enhance prediction and control of the disease in the country. Read more
 African swine fever experimental study in collaboration with partners in Vietnam and South Korea
ILRI scientists conducted an African swine fever experimental study in collaboration with the Vietnam National Institute of Veterinary Research and the Korea Rural Development Administration, National Institute Animal Science (RDA-NIAS) in October 2019. The first experiment was successfully completed, and extracted DNA samples were shipped to South Korea for gene analysis.
National task force of government experts and food safety researchers start work of ensuring safe food for Cambodians
 A technical working group of Cambodia food safety experts joined forces with a task force on food safety risk assessment to form the ‘national task force’ — an initiative by the Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project— that will work toward strengthening food safety policy advocacy and collaboration between government and food safety researchers in the county. Read more
VIDA-PIG researchers attend antimicrobial resistance summit in Singapore
 On 5 December, Hung Nguyen, ILRI regional representative for East and Southeast Asia and senior scientist, ecohealth and food safety; and Anders Dalsgaard, professor in veterinary public health, University of Copenhagen; attended two panel sessions on One Health and academic partnerships in the fight against AMR at the Antimicrobial Resistance Summit Asia in Singapore. They shared lessons from the ‘Health and antibiotics in Vietnamese pig production’ or VIDA-PIG project, which they are coordinating in Vietnam. Read more
Media workshop bridges the gap between food safety research and communication in Vietnam
 On 19 December, a media workshop on ‘Risk communications on food safety and human health’ brought together Vietnamese researchers and reporters to discuss ways for better communicating food safety information to the public. Read more
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Capacity development
Improving food safety risk assessment in southeast Asia
 In collaboration with the Veterinary Public Health Center for Asia Pacific in Chiang Mai, Thailand, trainers from ILRI Hanoi led a regional three-day training (15–17 August) on risk analysis in practice to improve food systems. The 12 trainees, from government and academia, were from Thailand, Nepal and Indonesia. Read more
Bridging the gender gaps in Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project
 Thirty-seven researchers and partners from the Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project learned how to ensure gender is integrated into livestock value chains and project cycles in a training workshop held 1–2 October 2019 in Phnom Penh. The training was facilitated by Kathleen Colverson, senior gender scientist, Livestock Systems Innovation Lab. Read more
Regional training on diagnosing parasitic pork-borne diseases at National University of Laos
 Fifteen government officers and researchers from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia participated in a training on dissection of indigenous pigs held 25–29 November 2019 at the National University of Laos. The training, which was conducted by Maurice Karani from ILRI Nairobi, aimed to improve diagnostics for cysticercosis, an important parasitic pork-borne disease known to be endemic in Laos and the region.
SafePORK project offers lessons on improving food safety in developing country for University of Sydney students
 Three students from the Sydney School of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, participated in a three-week internship (2–21 December 2019) at ILRI in Vietnam to learn about food safety risks and related communication issues in a developing-country context. Read more
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New projects/ research grants
- ASF socio-economic impact in Vietnam study funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
- ASF surveillance and experiment studies with Korea RDA-NIAS
- Disease monitoring and surveillance in Cambodia funded by KT Corporation
- National Natural Science Foundation of China-funded study on pig in partnership with Huazhong Agricultural University, China
- Proposal ‘Asian Chicken Genetic Gains (AsCGG): a platform for testing, delivering, and improving chickens for enhanced livelihood outcomes in Southeast Asia’ for ACIAR (2020-2024)
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