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International Livestock Research Institute

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Better lives through livestock

The International Livestock Research Institute is part of the CGIAR. We work with partners to help poor people keep their farm animals alive and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity and find profitable markets for their animal products. Visit our Research Groups :  Biotechnology • Markets, gender and livelihoods • People, livestock and the environment • Biosciences hub

See our involvement in the new CGIAR Research Programs

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Developing a new strategy for ILRI – Your ideas needed

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Our latest outputs

  • ILRI photofilms catalogue
  • Abstract submission template for PENAPH Technical Workshop, December 2012
  • Integrating improved goat breeds with new varieties of sweetpotatoes and cassava in the agro-pastoral systems of Tanzania: A gendered analysis
  • FEAST—The Feed Assessment Tool
  • Costs of milk production in EADD hubs in East Africa
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Our film and video

  • Tajeu: The boy born into drought
  • Rainwater management in the Nile Basin—Reflections on a stakeholder workshop in Bahir Dar
  • Sustainably intensifying, sustainably increasing the productivity of smallholder farmers in Africa
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ILRI in the media

  • Livestock: Cure or curse?
  • Social learning: A possible pathway to transformative change?
  • The World Food Prize Launches Careers Intern Spotlight: Dr. Abbey Avery Canon
  • Finding your way in the agricultural spatial data jungle
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Our projects

  • Managing risk in emerging pork markets: an international South-South symposium
  • Rapid assessment of potential benefits to human health and nutrition from research on livestock and fish market chains in Asia and Africa
  • Measuring and mitigating the risk of mycotoxins for poor milk and maize producers and consumers in Kenya
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Livestock matters: Original news from ILRI

  • Better support for, and integration of, mixed crop and animal farming is key to increasing and sustaining world food production
  • Catalogue of high-quality photofilms that highlight connection between people and livestock now online
  • Developing a new strategy for ILRI – Your ideas needed
  • Animal plagues: ‘The lethal gift of livestock’
  • New markets book showcases livestock insurance scheme that is helping Kenyan herders protect their marketable assets
  • Five ways to enhance agricultural markets in hungry regions of East and West Africa
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News and discussions on our blogs

  • Research and Fish Research Program recruiting a business manager
  • Well-managed tropical forage-based systems improve livelihoods and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
  • Better support for, and integration of, mixed crop and animal farming is key to increasing and sustaining world food production
  • Komms Klinics reloaded: Get smarter about research information, knowledge and communication at ILRI
  • Petra Saghir successfully completes her AWARD attachment at ILRI
  • Crop, tree, water, livestock and fish scientists call for action at Rio+20 sustainable development summit
  • From an aspiring teacher to an immunologist expert – Jan Naessens lab talk
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Livestock news

  • Developing world emerging as a big dairy industry growth prospect
  • World experts agree on cattle breeding rules
  • Livestock industry benefits from improved food security, provides affordable energy [Somalia]
  • Non–Tuberculous Mycobacteria Isolated from Slaughter Pigs in Ugandax
  • Zimbabwe's cattle breeders face tough choices as pasture vanishes
  • Fura de nunu: The good, bad and ugly [on selling and consuming raw milk]
  • Sustainable Livestock to be discussed at 23rd Committee on Agriculture (COAG)
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