An overview of ILRI

International Livestock Research Institute

4/5 highest value global commodities are livestock

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Source: FAOSTAT, 2010 data

% growth in demand for livestock products2000 - 2030

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FAO, 2012

Growth scenarios for livestock systems ‘Strong growth’

– Where good market access andincreasing productivity provide opportunities for continued smallholder participation.

‘Fragile growth’– Where remoteness, marginal land

resources or agro-climatic vulnerability restrict intensification.

‘High growth with externalities’– Fast changing livestock systems

potentially damaging the environment and human health

Different research and development challenges for poverty, food security, health and nutrition, environment

ILRI Mission and Strategy

ILRI envisions a world where all people have access to enough food and livelihood options to fulfill their potential.

ILRI’s mission is to improve food and nutritional security and to reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock— ensuring better lives through livestock

ILRI works in partnerships and alliances with other organizations, national and international, in livestock research, training and information. ILRI works in all tropical developing regions of Africa and Asia.

ILRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium that conducts food and environmental research to help alleviate poverty and increase food security while protecting the natural resource base. 

Strategic objectives ILRI and its partners will develop, test, adapt and promote science-

based practices that—being sustainable and scalable—achieve better lives through livestock.

ILRI and its partners will provide compelling scientific evidence in ways that persuade decision-makers—from farms to boardrooms and parliaments—that smarter policies and bigger livestock investments can deliver significant socio-economic, health and environmental dividends to both poor nations and households.

ILRI and its partners will work to increase capacity amongst ILRI’s key stakeholders and the institute itself so that they can make better use of livestock science and investments for better lives through livestock.

ILRI and CGIAR research programs

Dryland CerealsGrain Legumes

Livestock and FishMaizeRice

Roots, Tubers and BananasWheat

Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityForests, Trees and Agroforestry

Water, Land and Ecosystems

HumidtropicsAquatic Agricultural Systems

Dryland Systems

Policies, Institutions, and MarketsAgriculture for Nutrition and Health

Genebanks

ILRI’s research teams

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Integrated sciences Biosciences

Animal science for sustainable productivity

BecA-ILRI hub

Food safety and zoonoses Vaccine platform

Livestock systems and the environment

Animal bioscience

Livelihoods, gender and impact Feed and forage bioscience

Policy, trade, value chains Bioscience facilities

Biosciences eastern and central Africa – ILRI Hub

A strategic partnership between ILRI and AU-NEPAD.

A biosciences platform that makes the best lab facilities available to the African scientific community

Identifying agricultural solutions based on modern biotechnology.

Building African scientific capacity.

THE TECHNICAL CONSORTIUM

A partnership between the CGIAR and FAO aimed at channeling research knowledge into development projects/programs --actively linking research to development-- Its current focus: dry-lands of the Horn of Africa

Supporting IGAD and the respective countries to undertake requisite country and regional analyses, and to develop investment plans

It is hosted by ILRI and funded largely by USAID

ILRI Resources

• Staff: 700.

• Budget: $60 million.

• 30+ scientific disciplines.

• 130 senior scientists from 39 countries.

• 56% of internationally recruited

staff are from 22 developing countries.

• 34% of internationally recruited staff

are women.

• Large campuses in Kenya and Ethiopia.

• 70% of research in sub-Saharan Africa.

New ILRI Research Structure

Institute Management Committee

Institutional Support

Research Support

DGs Rep Ethiopia

Iain Wright

Director General

Jimmy Smith

DDG Integrated Sciences

John McIntire

DDG BiosciencesSuzanne Bertrand

Dir CRP L&FTom Randolph

Dir Corp Services

Martin van Weerdenburg

Dir Human ResourcesMargaret

MacDonald Levy

Dir Institutional Planning & Partnerships

Shirley Tarawali

Business Dev Unit(vacant)

Research Methods Jane Poole

Capacity Dev.Iddo Dror

Regional RepsBoni Moyo, Purvi

Mehta, Abdou Fall, Steve Staal

Intellectual PropertyLinda Opati

Knowledge MgmtPeter Ballantyne

Integrated Sciences Biosciences

CRP 1.1Polly. Ericksen

CRP 1.2Alan Duncan

CRP 2Derek Baker

CRP 4Delia Grace

CRP 5An Notenbaert

CRP 7Polly Ericksen

CRP Focal Points

Vaccine platformVish Nene (Director)

Animal bioscienceSteve Kemp

Biosciences facilities

(Vacant)

Food safety and zoonosesDelia Grace

Livestock systems and the environment

John McIntire (Interim)

Animal science for sustainable productivity Iain Wright

Livelihoods, gender and impact

Kathleen Colverson

Policy, trade, value chains

Derek Baker

Feed and forages bioscience

Suzanne Bertrand (Interim)

GenebankAlexandra

Jorge

Public AwarenessSusan Macmillan

ILRI Offices

Mali

Nigeria

Mozambique

Kenya

Ethiopia

India

Sri Lanka

China

Laos

Vietnam

Thailand

Nairobi: HeadquartersAddis Ababa: principal campus In 2012, offices opened in:Kampala, UgandaHarare, Zimbabwe

Office in Bamako, Malirelocated toOuagadougou, Burkina FasoDakar, Senegal

ILRI –HQ Nairobi campus

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IITA CIMMYT CIP IRRI Helen Keller Global Alliance for Improving Nutrition Int. Service fot the Acquisition of Ag.

Biotech Applications African Agric. Technology Foundation

Addis Campus – A CGIAR Campus

ILRI IWMI IFPRI CIMMYT ICARDA ICRAF CIP Bioversity (ICRISAT)

• icipe• IFAD• IFDC• BMGF

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