This document lists ILRI's contributions to research on livestock and global change from 2002 to 2013. It shows that ILRI produced influential studies on topics such as the impacts of climate change on agriculture, integrated assessment modeling of East African rangelands, mapping poverty and climate vulnerability in Africa, greenhouse gas emissions from African livestock, and contributions to major reports from the IPCC and World Bank. ILRI also led studies on drivers of change in crop-livestock systems and their impacts on ecosystem services and human well-being to 2030.

1. November 2011
Growth in ILRI Contributions to Livestock
and Global Change Research:
The Seré Legacy
2002 Mapping Poverty in the Developing World (ILRI book).
2003 ‘The potential impacts of climate change in tropical agriculture: The case of maize in Africa
and Latin America in 2055’, ILRI paper published in Global Environmental Change (now
with more than 150 citations; this is possibly the earliest CGIAR study of the impacts of
climate change).
2004–6 Series of high-visibility journal articles on integrated assessment modeling of the East African
rangelands (with Colorado State University).
2006 Foresight project on The Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases (contributed
chapter on cattle trypanosomosis in Africa)
2006 Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa (ILRI book).
2007 Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (lead and contributing
authors).
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Report
(inputs to WG2 chapters on Africa and agriculture).
2007 ILRI’s first tentative steps into scenario development.
2007–8 Human Development Report–‘Solidarity in a changing climate’ (contributing author)
2008 ‘Systems dynamics and the spatial distribution of methane emissions from African domestic
ruminants to 2030, ILRI paper published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment;
the first detailed continental assessment of methane production by ruminants in Africa;
influential within the life-cycle-analysis community.
2008 ILRI-wide consultations and discussion paper on the Livestock-Climate-Poverty Nexus.
2009 International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for
Development Report (IAASTD) (contributing authors).
2009 Drivers of Change in Crop-Livestock Systems and Their Potential Impacts on Agro-ecosystems
Services and Human Well-being to 2030 (lead authors of this CGIAR Systemwide Livestock
Program study).
2009 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Task Force
(member).
2009 FAO-ILRI Livestock in a Changing Landscape (lead and contributing authors)
2010 Special food security issue in Science (invited paper).
2010 Special issue on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences PNAS (invited paper on mitigation in livestock systems).
2010 World Development Report: Development and Climate Change (contributing authors).
2010 UK Foresight Report on Global Food and Farming Futures (contributing authors).
2010 Food Security and Global Environmental Change (contributions to the Global Environmental
Change and Food Systems research project and book).
2010 –11 4-Degrees and Beyond’ International Climate Conference and special issue of the Royal
Society Philosophical Transactions A (contributions).
2011 UNEP Ecosystems Services Assessment (contributing authors).
2011 Worldwatch State of the World 2011–Livestock chapter (lead authors).
2011 World Wildlife Fund Living Forests Report—Global Deforestation Outlook (contributing
authors).
2011 UK Foresight Project on Global Environmental Migration (contributors).
2011 Joint FAO/ILRI book on Global Livestock Production Systems.
2011 Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics. Report to
the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
2012 Special Issue on Livestock and Global Change of the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences (PNAS) (guest editors).
2012–13 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 Report (contributing authors to
Working Groups 2 on adaptation and 3 on mitigation).