The ILRI-ICRAF Research Methods Group: Supporting livestock research
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A poster prepared for the ILRI Annual Program Meeting (APM) 2010, held at ILRI campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 14-17, 2010.
![The ILRI-ICRAF Research Methods Group: Supporting Livestock Research The good Statistical, Geo-spatial and data management tools support quantification and visualization of ILRI Research in many areas. e.g.… efficacy of livestock disease control, animal genetic resources characterisation and use, improving the socio-economic and nutritional value of livestock, marketing and value-chain evaluation of livestock and livestock products, evaluating the importance of livestock to livelihoods and gender aspects, sustainable farming systems Baseline and ex-post evaluation GIS early warning systems GIS & Remote Sensing Tools and Products Global Position System (GPS) units Databases(T-SQL, ArcSDE, Ms Access, CsPro) Web-based Data/Information sharing platforms Data archiving support & systems Statistical models and methods Training resources and links to free on-line material RMG TOOLS Not so good Our tools are useful but the problems ILRI works on are challenging and the negative impacts if we do not solve them are huge. e.g. Impacts of climate change and ability of farmers to adapt, mitigation strategies against environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, zoonotic diseases, animal and human health impacts Defining of environmental thresholds and modeling of disease hotspots based on Geospatial information The good news is … And the not so good news is … ,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/apm2010ilri-icrafposter-100419075812-phpapp02/85/The-ILRI-ICRAF-Research-Methods-Group-Supporting-livestock-research-1-320.jpg)
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The ILRI-ICRAF Research Methods Group: Supporting livestock research
- 2. RMG staff are ready to support you in various areas of research methods (study design, data management, statistical analysis, GIS data management and analysis and training)
- 3. There remains a ‘missing link’ between RMG and some ILRI projects which we would like to insert
- 4. We are a small group; there are lots of projects and hundreds of research methods availableApril2010 www.ilri.org/rmg