Wherefore ILRI?
Presentation by Jimmy Smith at ILRI’s Annual Program Meeting

To ponder
Where we’ve come from . . .
Where we are now . . .
Where we’re going . . .

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
By
Oliver Goldsmith
A conversation between Tony Lumpkin and Mr.
Hastings:
Tony Lumpkin: Mr. Hastings do you know where you
came from?
Hastings: No
Tony Lumpkin: Do you know where you are?
Hastings: No
Tony Lumpkin: Do you know where you are going?
Hastings: No
Tony Lumpkin:
“Well Mr. Hastings,
if you do not know where you came from,
and don’t know where you are,
nor do you know where you are going,
then I must tell you that you are lost”

Where we’ve come from

Where we are now

New CGIAR structure and relations

Where we’re going

Where we’re going
From pathways
out of poverty . . .

Where we’re going
. . . to better lives
through livestock.

Where we’re going
From reactive responses to livestock ‘bads’ . . .

Where we’re going
. . . to proactive management of livestock ‘bads’.

Where we’re going
From regional
presence . . .

Where we’re going
. . . to regional
programs.

Where we’re going
From action research . . .

Where we’re going
. . . to development in action.

Where we’re going
We’re ‘removing our candle . . .

Where we’re going
. . . from under a bushel’ to have influence.

Where we’re going
We’re restoring our biosciences lustre.

Where we’re going
We’re building a business culture.

Where we’re going
We’re creating an enabling environment.

…… so some parting words

We must make ILRI the world’s renowned research for
development institution

We must make ILRI the place to be ……and work.

We must work for the poor.

Not just as our job . . .

. . . but because that’s our mission.

Thank you

Artists
Joseph Albers (Germany/USA)
Tarsila do Amaral (Brazil)
David Burliuk (Ukraine)
Marc Chagall (Russia)
Michael Delgado (Senegal)
René Magritte (Belgium)
Kazimir Malevich (Russia)
Franz Marc (Germany)
Aldemir Martins (Brazil)
Pablo Picasso (Spain)
Candido Portinari (Brazil)
Maria Primachenko (Ukraine)