An overview of ILRI
International Livestock Research Institute

4/5 highest value global commodities are livestock
Source: FAOSTAT, 2010 data
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% growth in demand for livestock products
2000 - 2030
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FAO, 2012

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 agro-climatic
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 Mission and Strategy
 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
 ILRI works in partnerships and alliances with other organizations,
national and international, in livestock research, training and
information. ILRI works in all tropical developing regions of Africa
and Asia.
 ILRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium that conducts food
and environmental research to help alleviate poverty and increase
food security while protecting the natural resource base.

Strategic objectives
 ILRI and its partners will develop, test, adapt and promote science-
based practices that—being sustainable and scalable—achieve
better lives through livestock.
 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.
 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 and CGIAR research programs
Dryland Cereals
Grain Legumes
Livestock and Fish
Maize
Rice
Roots, Tubers and Bananas
Wheat
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
Water, Land and Ecosystems
Humidtropics
Aquatic Agricultural Systems
Dryland Systems
Policies, Institutions, and Markets
Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
Genebanks

ILRI’s research teams
Integrated sciences Biosciences
Animal science for sustainable BecA-ILRI hub
productivity
Food safety and zoonoses Vaccine platform
Livestock systems and the Animal bioscience
environment
Livelihoods, gender and impact Feed and forage bioscience
Policy, trade, value chains Bioscience facilities
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Biosciences eastern and central Africa – ILRI Hub
 A strategic partnership between ILRI and AU-NEPAD.
 A biosciences platform that makes the best lab facilities
available to the African scientific community
 Identifying agricultural solutions based on modern
biotechnology.
 Building African scientific capacity.

THE TECHNICAL CONSORTIUM
A partnership between the CGIAR and FAO aimed at
channeling research knowledge into development
projects/programs --actively linking research to
development--
Its current focus: dry-lands of the Horn of Africa
Supporting IGAD and the respective countries to
undertake requisite country and regional analyses, and to
develop investment plans
It is hosted by ILRI and funded largely by USAID

ILRI Resources
• Staff: 700.
• Budget: $60 million.
• 30+ scientific disciplines.
• 130 senior scientists from 39 countries.
• 56% of internationally recruited
staff are from 22 developing countries.
• 34% of internationally recruited staff
are women.
• Large campuses in Kenya and Ethiopia.
• 70% of research in sub-Saharan Africa.

New ILRI Research Structure
Director
General
Jimmy Smith
Institute Management Committee
Dir Corp Dir Human Dir Institutional Planning &
DGs Rep
Services Resources Partnerships
Margaret
Ethiopia
Martin van Shirley Tarawali
Weerdenburg MacDonald Levy Iain Wright
DDG Integrated Knowledge Mgmt
DDG Biosciences Peter Ballantyne
Sciences
Suzanne Bertrand
John McIntire Public Awareness
Dir CRP L&F Susan Macmillan
Tom Randolph
Capacity Dev.
Integrated Sciences Biosciences Iddo Dror
CRP 1.1 Intellectual Property
Polly. Ericksen Animal science for sustainable Linda Opati
CRP 1.2 productivity Iain Wright
Business Dev Unit
Alan Duncan
(vacant)
CRP 2 Food safety and zoonoses Vaccine platform
Derek Baker Delia Grace Vish Nene (Director) Institutional Support
CRP 4
Livestock systems and the Animal bioscience
Delia Grace
environment Steve Kemp Regional Reps
CRP 5 John McIntire (Interim) Boni Moyo, Purvi
An Notenbaert Mehta, Abdou Fall,
Livelihoods, gender and impact Feed and forages bioscience
CRP 7 Steve Staal
Kathleen Colverson Suzanne Bertrand (Interim)
Polly Ericksen
Research Methods
Genebank Jane Poole
Policy, trade, value chains Biosciences facilities
Alexandra
CRP Jorge Points
Focal Derek Baker (Vacant) Research Support

ILRI Offices
India
Mali
China
Laos
Vietnam
Nairobi: Headquarters
Addis Ababa: principal campus
In 2012, offices opened in: Nigeria
Kampala, Uganda
Sri Lanka
Harare, Zimbabwe Mozambique
Kenya
Office in Bamako, Mali
relocated to Thailand
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Ethiopia
Dakar, Senegal

ILRI –HQ Nairobi campus
 IITA
 CIMMYT
 CIP ★
 IRRI
 Helen Keller
 Global Alliance for Improving Nutrition
 Int. Service fot the Acquisition of Ag.
Biotech Applications
 African Agric. Technology Foundation

Addis Campus – A CGIAR Campus
 ILRI • icipe
 IWMI • IFAD
 IFPRI • IFDC
 CIMMYT • BMGF
 ICARDA
 ICRAF
 CIP
 Bioversity
 (ICRISAT)

Better lives through livestock
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