Sustainable livestock futures

ILRI’s Sustainable Livestock Futures Programme analyses the complex interactions between livestock systems, poverty, and the environment. Its strong multi-disciplinary team conducts foresight studies on emerging livestock development challenges with uncertain future impacts and signals their importance for other ILRI Programmes and policy makers. The rapidly growing demand for livestock products in developing countries and the importance of livestock in household asset portfolios provides great potential for using livestock to reduce poverty. The Programme enhances the contribution of ILRI’s research to poverty reduction by identifying, in collaboration with other ILRI Projects, specific pathways for sustainable poverty reduction and entry points where livestock research can play a role.
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