Unlocking livestock development potential through science, influence and capacity
development ILRI APM, Addis Ababa, 15-17 May 2013
Introducing the Animal Sciences for Sustainable
Productivity (ASSP) program at ILRI
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Outcome
Increased animal production and productivity with:
• Increased environmental health
• Reduced poverty
• Improved human nutrition and health
Objectives
1. To improve animal feeding
2. To improve animal health and health delivery
3. To develop and promote more productive and adapted strains/breed types
4. To develop and promote more productive livestock and farming systems
Animal Feeding Animal breeding
strategies
Animal health
Livestock/Farming
systems
Staff
29 scientists, 3 post docs, 15 technicians/specialists/communications, 10 research officers/technicians/assistants, 14
admin/support staff located in Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Sri-Lanka, India, Uganda, Mozambique, and Senegal
How
Animal
Biosciences
Feed and
Forage
Biosciences
Four components of the program delivering the corresponding outcome through R4D are:
Contributing to CRPs
Drylands
Humid Tropics
Policies, Institutions and
Markets
Livestock and Fish
Agriculture for Nutrition and
Health
Water, Land and Ecosystems
CCAFS
Vaccine
Platform