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International Livestock Research Institute

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better lives through livestock

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre – part of a global research partnership for a food-secure future.

See our research programs and activities; See our work in CGIAR research programs; ILRI leads the Livestock and Fish Research Program; it also hosts the BecA-ILRI hub for East and Central Africa. In 2013 ILRI adopted a strategy covering 2013-2022.

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Top 10 viewed ILRI News blog articles of 2016
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Our latest outputs

  • What works where for which farm household: Rapid approaches to food availability analysis
  • System productivity and natural resource integrity in smallholder farming: Friends or foes?
  • Mapping of beef, sheep and goat food systems in Nairobi — A framework for policy making and the identification of structural vulnerabilities and deficiencies
  • Potential of using host plant resistance, nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers for reduction of Aspergillus flavuscolonization and aflatoxin accumulation in maize in Tanzania
  • Improving smallholder dairy farming in Africa
  • Detecting and preventing contamination of dairy cattle feed
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ILRI in the media

  • Can the livestock sector find the elusive 'win-win' on drug resistance?
  • Uganda leads pork consumption in Africa
  • Ethiopia: Irrigation development receiving prior focus
  • Ugandans named biggest pork consumers in Africa
  • Drought-tolerant grass boosts milk and meat production [Kenya]
  • Forage grass could spur milk production by 40 per cent [East Africa]
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  • First International Agribiodiversity Congress in India
  • Peter Doherty on challenges and opportunities of pig production in Southeast Asia
  • Peter Doherty on the role of science supporting Africa's food production
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Our projects

  • Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program
  • Integrating Crops and Livestock for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Zimbabwe (ZimCLIFS)
  • Dairy genomics program of the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health
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Livestock matters: Original news from ILRI

  • Top 10 viewed ILRI News blog articles of 2016
  • Livestock for sustainable and equitable development—Selected top advocacy communications of 2016
  • Livestock environmental ‘hoofprints’: Five fast facts to remember—Shirley Tarawali at ‘Farming First’
  • Access vs excess to antibiotics: The dual antimicrobial resistance issue facing the world
  • Medicine Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty is patron of the International Livestock Research Institute
  • Facilitating innovation platforms – now available as a mobile ‘serious game’
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News and discussions on our blogs

  • Science: The fuel for human progress—by Bill Gates
  • Update on ACGG activities in Ethiopia
  • USAID learning event promotes joint collaboration to accelerate poverty reduction in Western Kenya
  • Economic evaluation of an improved grain storage technology in Tanzania
  • Monitoring and evaluation in systems research: Experience from Africa RISING
  • Institutions for irrigation water management in Ethiopia: Assessing diversity and service delivery
  • Top 10 viewed ILRI Clippings blog articles of 2016
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Livestock news

  • Why strong veterinary services are needed
  • Zanzibar: Dr Shein opens first ever milk processing factory
  • Uganda: Why pig breeds matter in the market
  • Ethiopia: Nation set to raise meat, meat product export revenue
  • Entrepreneurs out to get rid of foul smell from pigsties
  • Livestock vaccinations translate into increased human capital and school attendance by girls
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ILRI is a CGIAR research centre

Patron: Professor Peter C Doherty AC, FAA, FRS
Animal scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology or Medicine–1996

ILRI thanks all donors and organizations which globally supported its work through their contributions to the CGIAR system

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