Livestock and economic well-
being
Isabelle Baltenweck (ILRI)
ILRI@40 Livestock and economic well-being
workshop
Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014

Livestock and economic well-being
Focus: what technologies and how to deliver them,
to meet the increasing demand for livestock and
livestock products (milk X 3 and poultry and pork X
6 in 2054) (African Livestock Futures)?
If the livestock research community, including ILRI,
is to meet that challenge, what feed, animal health,
genetics interventions to focus on? And what
about delivery of these technologies?

The enabler for the 3 inputs is new bioscience
tools that accelerate the rate of appropriate
product development
• Feed
– Balanced diets suitable for the various settings we
work in, using existing options (possibly from
other continents) to reduce GHG emissions
– Better package info on what feeds to be promoted
where, using interactive maps
• Animal health
– Diagnostics – e.g rapid diagnostic tool using ‘chip’
as a platform technology (to be adapted to
multiple diseases)

2.1 Future perspectives

• Genetics
– Use new, cheaper technologies to identify breeds with
better feed efficiency factor, or disease resistant
– Use ICT and mobile technologies to collect data required
to make recommendations about ‘most appropriate’
breeds
• Delivery
– Research on sustainable/ appropriate delivery
mechanisms, to reach women and men, youth and
other segments of populations
– Understand how the private sector can be used to
deliver technologies
– Policy constraints that prevent uptake of technologies,
e.g. para vets not allowed to deliver vaccines
– Capacity development of partners who will deliver the
technologies