Livestock for healthy lives
Group report on the ILRI@40 workshop
Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014

Agriculture imposes large burdens on
human health
Emerging
Food borne
Malnutrition
Zoonoses
Malaria
Three million deaths a year are agriculture associated
One quarter of all deaths from infection are agriculture associated
Almost all of these occur in developing countries
Diseases will continue to emerge over the next 40 years

Process…
• Inputs presentations
– One Health – Ecohealth
– ILRI works on AADs (FS, EIDs, zoonosis)
• Statement / perception of problem by 2054
• Group discussion to identify priorities

Priorities
• Emerging infectious diseases and drivers
(climate change, intensification,
irrigation…)
• Food safety and risk management
• Vaccines and diagnostics
• Antimicrobial use (resistance and
residues)

Innovation
• Diagnostics: simple, fast, easy for early detection and
responses, adapted to value chain actors, database
(management and sharing for informed policy)
• Vaccine platform: ideal vaccines and delivery system
(rapid license, vet services, veterinary and delivery
services…)
• Use of ICT, mobile technology for early detection,
reporting, data management
• Antibiotic prudent use concept: residues and
antimicrobial resistance
• One Health / EcoHealth approach

Vision for ILRI@80
ILRI research has contributed to appropriate health
management systems leading to healthy animals,
people and ecosystem and increased animal source
food and income for all