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Authors'
affiliations P.K.
Thornton, systems analyst and programme coordinator, Systems Analysis and
Impact Assessment Programme, ILRI, Nairobi. The
artworks on the cover and inside pages are composites of sketches held by
the Tate Gallery, London. ©2002
International Livestock Research Institute ISBN
92-9146-109-1 Correct
citation: Thornton P.K., Kruska R.L., Henninger N., Kristjanson P.M., Reid
R.S., Atieno F., Odero A.N. and Ndegwa T.2002. This
publication houses a CD-ROM version of the printed edition. The publication may also be found on the websites of DFID and ILRI: www.dfid.gov.uk and www.ilri.org For
further information or to request more copies of the printed or CD-ROM
editions of this publication, please contact: The
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Nairobi,
Kenya, and working worldwide, helps reduce poverty, hunger and
environmental degradation through global livestock research. ILRI is one
of 16 Future Harvest Centres supported by the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI is funded by more than
50 private, public and government organisations, including the World Bank
and the United Nations, and collaborates with more than 500 national,
regional and international institutions, in addition to non-governmental
organisations and private companies. The Department for International Development (DFID), the sponsor of this study and publication, is the United Kingdom Government department responsible for promoting international development and the reduction of poverty. DFID works in partnership with governments of developing countries, international organisations, voluntary bodies, the private sector and the research community. DFID has a long tradition of support for long-term research for livestock development in the world ’ s poorest countries. ILRI and DFID have strong interests in developing a greater understanding of the factors affecting poverty in order that they can focus their investments on activities that have significant impact on poverty reduction. An important step in this process is the better definition of spatial and temporal trends in global poverty; for this reason, DFID commissioned ILRI to develop a series of analytical poverty maps of the developing world. Another important step in this process is to take advantage of the availability of such spatial and temporal data on poverty to prioritise constraints to livelihoods of the poor. One set of constraints is the poor health of their livestock, which feature in so many different livelihoods and enterprises of the poor. With DFID support, ILRI has used the poverty maps as a basis for developing research priorities in animal health for poverty alleviation. The results of these two DFID-supported studies, one mapping poverty and livestock and the other prioritising animal health research for poverty reduction, are presented ascompanion volumes. The
artwork on cover and inside pages are composites of drawings held in the
national collections of British art at the Tate Gallery, UK. Bottom
and middle rows, left to right: The
Good Shepherd (1927)by Eric Gill (1882 –1940)
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