Eastern and Southern Africa

ILRI operates in East Africa with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This page brings together ILRI and partner resources on Eastern and Southern Africa. It shows information on projects, news items, research outputs and video materials as well as ILRI people working in the region.

ILRI Projects in Eastern and Southern Africa

Jan 2018Dec 2022

EQUIP–Strengthening Smallholder Livestock Systems for the Future Project

This project sets out to develop the knowledge, skills, tools and products that are prerequisites for future scaling efforts that will significantly reduce gaps in feed quantity and quality, and thereby increase livestock productivity in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. The project has four focal areas...

Mar 2019Mar 2022

Feed and Forage Seed Business Models to Support Further Professionalization of the Dairy Sector in Kenya and Uganda

The project aims to ‘Develop viable business models for forage seed production and marketing that assure economically sustainable access to high-quality forage seed to diverse clients’. International, national and local seed entrepreneurs, dairy farmers and national and international researchers...

Jan 2018Feb 2021

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation – Irrigated Fodder Development, Phase II

The project aims to build on the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) Phase I work of validating and promoting sustainable small-scale irrigation technologies to produce irrigated fodder in the smallholder systems and help bridge seasonal feed shortages. The...

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ILRI News in Eastern and Southern Africa

ILRI News

26 Nov 2020

Tackling co-infections with Rift Valley fever, brucellosis and Q fever in Kenya using One Health

Livestock market in Wajir County, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale). A second technical meeting of a project that is working to reduce the burden of major zoonoses among pastoralists in Kenya was held 1–4 November 2020 in Naivasha-Kenya. The project, which is known as ‘Co-infection with...

Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Officer

ILRI News

12 Nov 2020

COVID-19 and livestock development in Ethiopia: Enhancing national responses

Ethiopia has the largest livestock population in Africa, which is a vital part of the life of its people. More than 80% of the country’s p opulation depends on the sector for income, employment, and food and nutrition among other benefits. Since mid-March 2020, the sector’s development has been...

Beamlak TesfayeKnowledge management and communications expert

ILRI News

29 Sep 2020

‘Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development’ (BUILD) project to hold virtual stakeholder consultation this week

‘Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development’— BUILD , for short— is a five-year research-for-development project led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and funded by the German government through the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)...

Kristina RoeselScientist, Animal and human health

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Latest publications

Journal Article

Published2020

Determinants of vitamin D status in Kenyan calves

Journal Article

Published2020

Growth, reproductive performance and survival rate of Bonga sheep and their crossbreds in southern Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2020

Evaluation and characterization of semen quality in rams of Menz, Dorper and Awassi crosses in different seasons in Ethiopia

Brief

Published2020

Reducing climate-induced heat stress in pigs in Uganda: Policy actions

Journal Article

Published2020

Salmonella identified in pigs in Kenya and Malawi reveals the potential for zoonotic transmission in emerging pork markets

Working Paper

Published2020

Social equity implications of intensification and commercialization in East African livestock systems: Implications for low-emission development

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