• Home
  • Who we are
    • Why livestock matter
    • Mission and strategy
    • Governance
    • Management
    • Organization
    • Finance and operations
    • Human resources
    • Partnership and communications
    • Investors
    • Partners
    • People
    • Key documents
    • Hosted initiatives
    • ICT
    • Jobs
    • Tenders
  • Where we work
    • Asia
    • East Africa
    • Southern Africa
    • West Africa
  • What we work on
    • Vaccine and diagnostic technologies for orphan animal diseases
    • Animal genetic resources
    • Climate change
    • Emerging diseases
    • SPS and market access within broader market opportunities for the poor
    • Sustainable intensification in smallholder crop-livestock systems
    • Vulnerability of marginal systems and peoples
  • Media
    • News
    • Films
    • Photos
    • Audio
    • Newsfeeds
    • Blogs
    • Communication strategy
  • Research
    • Research challenges
      • Animal genetic resources
      • Climate change adaptation and mitigation
      • Emerging diseases
      • Marginal systems and peoples
      • Market opportunities for the poor
      • Orphan animal diseases
      • Smallholder crop-livestock systems
    • Research groups
      • Biotechnology
      • Market opportunities
      • People livestock and the environment
      • Poverty and gender
      • Sustainable livestock futures
    • Research projects
    • Research outputs
    • Research support
      • Animal care and use committee
      • Biosafety committee
      • GIS
      • Intellectual property policy
      • Publishing committee
      • Research methods group
    • Hosted initiatives
      • BioInnovate Africa
      • Biosciences east and central Africa (BecA)
      • CGIAR collective action in east and southern Africa
      • CGIAR systemwide livestock programme
      • Improving productivity & market success of Ethiopian farmers
    • CGIAR mega programs
  • Information
    • Publications
    • Events
    • News
    • RSS Feeds
    • Research outputs repository
    • Information Services
    • Publishing
    • Web services
    • ICT
    • GIS
    • Tenders
      • ILRI/ICRAF joint supplier prequalification & registration 2010
  • Capacity building
    • CaSt Strategy
    • Learning resources
    • Training at ILRI
  • Jobs
  • Contact us

Welcome to ILRI

Part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the International Livestock Research Institute works for better lives through livestock.

Read about our five research groups:

• Biotechnology
• Market Opportunities
• People, Livestock and the Environment
• Poverty and Gender
• Sustainable Livestock Futures

Tags

climate adaptation forages capacity strengthening disease control biotechnology indigenous breeds biodiversity pastoralism women animal products value chains animal breeding innovation systems livestock genetics nutrition animal feeding water knowledge & information livelihoods impact assessment food safety emerging diseases diagnostics crop residues animal health geodata livestock-water crops agriculture livestock systems NRM wildlife research fodder extension trade feeds dairying animal diseases markets vaccines Animal Production crop-livestock epidemiology drought

News from ILRI

  • African women scientists for African farmers: ‘The work is risky, it’s dirty, it’s hard and it’s invisible’—Vicki Wilde
  • Fruit, catfish and pigeon pea researchers among 60 African women awarded prestigious agricultural fellowships
  • Bringing climate change down to earth
  • Edinburgh-Wellcome-ILRI project addresses neglected zoonotic diseases in western Kenya
  • Les experts avertissent que la disparition rapide du bétail indigène de l’Afrique menace l’approvisionnement alimentaire du continent
  • New report assessing bioenergy access and delivery in Kenya recommends, among other changes, that all family members share the burden of collecting firewood
  more

Recent outputs

  • ILRI Financial Report 2009
  • The function of remote sensing in support of environmental policy
  • Whither commodity-based trade?
  • Developing Africa's agricultural markets
  • Effects of integrated watershed management on livestock-water productivity in water scarce areas in Ethiopia
  • Time to tap Africa's livestock genomes
  more

News from our blogs

  • Cloned livestock gain a foothold in Europe
  • The ‘Magic’ that will reduce fertilizer reliance
  • African women scientists for African farmers: ‘The work is risky, it’s dirty, it’s hard and it’s invisible’—Vicki Wilde
  • Kebebe Ergano presents at Innovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food Symposium in Montpellier
  • Fruit, catfish and pigeon pea researchers among 60 African women awarded prestigious agricultural fellowships
  • Share fair on networking tools – 5th agriculture science week and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) general assembly
  more
Classroom, ILRI India

News clippings

  • ‘Bring animals back onto farms’–US food activist Michael Pollan
  • Get involved with the CGIAR Mega-program consultations
  • Cloned livestock gain a foothold in Europe
  • The ‘Magic’ that will reduce fertilizer reliance
  • ILRI vacancy: Post Doctoral Fellow – 2 Posts: India Mozambique (Closing 20 August 2010)
  more
Read our reports
Watch our films and videos
See some photos
View our presentations
Upcoming events
Listen to podcasts
Subscribe to news alerts
Follow us on twitter
Join us on facebook
 

Contact us | Copyright and permissions | Search| Subscribe
© International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)