Impact at scale

The Impact at Scale program is responsible for spearheading the scaling-up of innovations of all International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) programs for a sustainable future. The innovations have been tested and proven to be effective. The program aims at ensuring that many people can benefit from these technologies.

It draws on the expertise and experience of staff from across ILRI’s programs based in 16 African and Asian countries who have in-depth understanding of the local contexts and direct access to local partners. These programs also provide evidence of proven approaches and interventions covering technologies, institutional arrangements, business models and policy support, which can be scaled to different contexts.

Objectives

Ensuring that ILRI has the required human and management capacity to deliver at scale with and through partner organizations
Providing appropriate management support, frameworks, and tools for staff undertaking scaling-up activities
Working with partners to demonstrate the impact of livestock research for development.

Dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in India

Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural communities in India. Dairy enterprises not only feed rural communities, they also supply milk to urban centres providing high quality protein and other essential nutrients to the population. Driven by rising urbanization and a growing middle class, demand for milk has increased substantially in recent years in India, including in the northern state of Uttarakhand. Strengthening the efficiency of the Uttarakhand dairy market offers major opportunities to smallholders to expand production and sales of milk...

Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia

Livestock play a crucial role in national development in Ethiopia, accounting for 40% of agricultural gross domestic product. With one of the largest dairy cow populations in Africa at 10 million, Ethiopia produces nearly 3 billion litres of milk a year. Rapidly rising incomes have increased demand for dairy products faster than supply, pushing up prices and increasing the importation of powdered milk. Increasing milk yields and the sale of dairy products hold huge potential for the rural population whose livelihoods largely depend on livestock farming. While productivity in the dairy sector...

Jan 2013Dec 2019

Red Meat Value Chain Development in Maputo and Limpopo Corridors (PROSUL Project)

Study for the red meat value chain, ensure that stakeholders in the value chain are brought together to overcome structural constraints for the improvement of cattle and goat productivity

Sep 2017Jun 2019

Sindh Agricultural Growth Project (Livestock Component)

Aims to improve the productivity and competitiveness of small and medium producers in selected commodity value chains

Jan 2016Dec 2019

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (FTF-MLTS)

Aims to reduce ruminant livestock productivity gaps and increase the volume and value of ruminant livestock marketed and promoting the expansion of profitable livestock-based enterprises with a business model that stimulates commercial and institutional innovations, linking up producers with input...

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ILRI News on Impact at scale

ILRI News

16 Apr 2020

ILRI adopts new framework for scaling up livestock research for development

Farmers in developing countries benefit from ILRI’s research outputs that are taken to scale (photo credit: ILRI). The core business of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is to undertake livestock research for development. However, ILRI, along with other CGIAR centres and...

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ILRI News

15 Oct 2019

Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research

By Saba Ermyas Farmers benefit from ILRI Impact at Scale projects (photo credit: ILRI). Have you heard the saying ‘pilots never fail, pilots never scale’? Unfortunately, research shows that this saying is true most of the time because few pilot projects successfully scale up to sustainable and long...

Paul KaraimuCommunications Officer

ILRI News

15 Aug 2019

US ambassador to Mali visits communities in Sikasso region supported by an ILRI-led livestock technology scaling project

Written by Assoumane Maiga Aoussata Coulibaly (left) talking to Dennis Haskins, US Ambassador to Mali (in dark jacket) and his delegation about business and job opportunities created by the Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (photo credit: ILRI/Amadou Nouh Saw). On 25 July...