Livestock research for food security and poverty reduction

ILRI strategy 2013 – 2022

‘better lives through livestock’

Journey …

Mission (Purpose)

WHY ILRI exists

WHAT ILRI does

HOW the strategy is operationalized

Strategic objectives (informed by strategic issues

– external and internal environment))

Critical success factors performance areas

overlapping do NOT map to structure

Key elements

Mission and vision

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.

Strategic issues that inform

Strategic objectives

Food security challenge

Need to deliver at

scale

Role of women

Diversity of challenges

and opportunities for the poor

Address human

health and environment

al issues

Significant new science

Disproportionately low livestock funding

Need for greater capacity

ILRI – fit for purpose

What’s new?

• Long term strategy• Outcomes and impacts

(accountable; attribution; alignment)

• Diversity: trajectories; species; ILRI strengths; partners

• Livestock ‘goods’ and ‘bads’• Mainstreaming gender; human

health • Clientele: Beyond livestock

producers; partners; capacity development

Growth scenarios for livestock systems

• ‘Strong growth’– Where good market access and

increasing productivity provide opportunities for continued smallholder participation.

• ‘Fragile growth’– Where remoteness, marginal land

resources or agroclimatic 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 acts in three (mutually reinforcing) areas

• To prove that better use of livestock can make a big difference in enough people’s lives through improved practice.

• To influence decision-makers so that they will increase investment in livestock systems.

• To ensure there is sufficient capacity in developing countries and among investors to use increased investment effectively and efficiently.

Strategic objective 1

ILRI and its partners will develop, test, adapt and promote science-based practices that—being sustainable and scalable—achieve better lives through livestock.

Strategic objective 2

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.

Strategic objective 3

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 strategy and the CGIAR Consortium

CGIAR consortium

ILRI strategy

Global livestock issues

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 EcosystemsHumidtropics

Aquatic Agricultural SystemsDryland Systems

Policies, Institutions, and MarketsAgriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Critical success factors

Together with partnership, five areas where ILRI needs to excel to be able to deliver the strategy are the critical success factors.

For each, an operational plan sets out objectives, targets and measurable indicators and is the basis for regular monitoring, priority-setting and assessment of outcomes.

The critical success factors

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