Shirley Tarawali

Shirley Tarawali

Director General (a.i.) and chair of the the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock

Shirley Tarawali (UK) is director general (a.i.) and secretary to the ILRI Board of Trustees. Prior to this, she was director of ILRI’s people, livestock and the environment research team. She has a PhD in Plant Science from the University of London. Previously Shirley held a joint appointment with ILRI and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) based in Ibadan, Nigeria where her research interests were mainly in crop livestock and pastoral systems.

My Blog Posts

ILRI News

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on bringing science-based nuance and clarity to today’s polarized livestock debates

More connections: Sustainable livestock opportunities and new food system realities

ILRI News

ILRI's Jimmy Smith on the livestock controversies holding back greater use of milk, meat and eggs to nourish the undernourished

My Publications

Sustainable livestock opportunities and future food system realities

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The future of sustainable livestock systems in low- and middle-income countries

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Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) and the UN FSS

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Restoring or reinventing the virtuous cycle of crop-livestock integration?

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Sustainable Development Goals and livestock systems

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Cattle in sustainable, healthy food systems: Perspectives from Africa

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