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International Livestock Research Institute

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Better lives through livestock

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium which works for a food-secure future. See our research programs and activities ; See our work in CGIAR research programs ; ILRI leads the Livestock and Fish Research Program and hosts the BecA-ILRI hub for East and Central Africa. In 2013 we adopted a strategy covering 2013-2022.

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Climate change–Wholesale reconfiguration of diets, livelihoods, farming will be required in some regions

Field photos from Lower Nyando, Kenya

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Our latest outputs

  • Valuing ecosystem services for conservation and development purposes: A case study from Kenya
  • Quantitative trait loci for resistance to Haemonchus contortus artificial challenge in Red Maasai and Dorper sheep of East Africa
  • Characterization of smallholder goat production and marketing systems in Udaipur district, Rajasthan State, India: Results of a baseline study
  • Crops and goat project, Tanzania
  • Livestock Matter(s): ILRI news round-up, May 2013
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  • Livestock research for food security and poverty reduction
  • ILRI and the global development agenda
  • Comments at the Third Multi-Stakeholder Platform Meeting of the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development
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  • Growth in climate-smart grass
  • Global consultation reinforces CIARD in making agricultural knowledge accessible and useful for smallholders
  • Future of zoonosis linked to farming and environment
  • Livestock in the city: separating fact from fiction
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Our projects

  • A comparison between local cattle breeds in Kenya in the rate and extent of adhesion of rumen bacteria to maize stover
  • A genomics approach to understanding the immunopathology of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP): Improvement of current live vaccines and development of next generation vaccines
  • Comparative genomics and structural modelling of salivary gland encoded genes for development of effective tick/pathogen combination vaccines
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Livestock matters: Original news from ILRI

  • Working together for viable livestock futures: Stakeholders at the Global Agenda of Action speak out
  • Climate change–Wholesale reconfiguration of diets, livelihoods, farming will be required in some regions
  • Spinning through the online media universe (geeky, social and otherwise)
  • Launching ILRI’s new long-term strategy for livestock research for development–15-minute film
  • ILRI’s capacity development priorities: contribute your views
  • Keepers of the flame: Women livestock keepers
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News and discussions on our blogs

  • Asia Pacific Participatory Epidemiology Network holds first training workshop
  • Working together for viable livestock futures: Stakeholders at the Global Agenda of Action speak out
  • Heritage breed chickens: America’s new ‘gateway livestock’–Plus film on chicken boom in poor countries
  • Developing impact pathways for the Livestock and Fish Tanzania dairy value chain
  • Climate change–Wholesale reconfiguration of diets, livelihoods, farming will be required in some regions
  • Of platforms and tables, cows and chillies: Scrutinizing numbers in Togo opens worlds of new ideas to explore
  • Spinning through the online media universe (geeky, social and otherwise)
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Livestock news

  • Understanding and integrating gender issues into livestock projects and programmes
  • Children’s work in the livestock sector: Herding and beyond
  • Zambeef: A rare meat success in Africa
  • OIE head Bernard Vallat on global animal disease control
  • Making Rangelands Secure in East and Horn of Africa Bulletin Issue 3
  • Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in livestock production: A review of technical options for non-CO2 emissions
  • Rural India selling cows, buffaloes on OLX, Quikr
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