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Welcome to ILRI

Part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the International Livestock Research Institute works for better lives through livestock.

Read about our five research groups:

• Biotechnology
• Market Opportunities
• People, Livestock and the Environment
• Poverty and Gender
• Sustainable Livestock Futures

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NRM emerging diseases crop-livestock value chains livestock-water wildlife forages food security capacity strengthening nutrition women animal diseases biodiversity Animal Production crop residues indigenous breeds knowledge & information livelihoods animal feeding vaccines animal health extension impact assessment animal products feeds crops geodata animal breeding genetics drought pro-poor livestock disease control livestock systems pastoralism farming systems diagnostics climate adaptation epidemiology innovation systems food safety research dairying trade biotechnology fodder markets agriculture livestock water

News from ILRI

  • Imported breeds threaten global livestock biodiversity
  • Small-scale traders drive growth of Kenya’s milk industry
  • Improving African food security in the face of climate change
  • Study recommends new systems for raising and selling small animal stock in Ethiopia
  • The common practice of pig-rearing in northeast India would profit from better breeding and feeding programs and greater involvement of women
  • Livestock and fish research in the CGIAR – Stakeholders to review Mega Program concept in Addis Ababa
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Recent outputs

  • Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects
  • Sustainable land management through market oriented commodity development: Case studies from Ethiopia
  • Le méga programme élevage et pêche aura un impact s’il tient compte des populations bénéficiaires
  • Mkutano wa Mifugo na Samaki 'ilizaa matunda mazuri'
  • Value 'webs' a promising approach for CGIAR Livestock Fish Mega Program
  • CGIAR Mega Programs need to help countries find their own ways
  more

News from our blogs

  • Surviving Drought in Kitengela, Kenya
  • Climate change will have a great impact on Southern African livestock
  • The miracle of the cerrado
  • Imported breeds threaten global livestock biodiversity
  • Could self-vaccinating cattle cut disease?
  • Agriculture in Africa is changing rapidly
  more
Cattle watering at the Ghibe River compressed

News clippings

  • Climate change will have a great impact on Southern African livestock
  • The miracle of the cerrado
  • Could self-vaccinating cattle cut disease?
  • ILRI vacancy: Project assistant – temporary (closing 08 September 2010)
  • Agriculture in Africa is changing rapidly
  more
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