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The human face of sustainable livestock development
BETTER LIVES THROUGH LIVESTOCK
International Livestock Research Institute Annual Report 2018
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The Human Face of Sustainable Livestock Development2
For ILRI, 2018 was a year of continuing progress and solid achievement—and for that we remain both grateful and proud. Thanks to our staff, our partners, our donors and the governments with which we work, ILRI is helping countless farmers and other stakeholders in the livestock sector in the developing world live better lives through livestock. It is helping to raise household incomes, improve human nutrition and health, fight devastating livestock diseases, breed more productive and drought-resistant animals, redress gender imbalances, enhance biodiversity and respond to climate change.
In past reports, we’ve noted that the global demand for animal-source foods continues to grow rapidly in developing and emerging countries, a phenomenon dubbed the “livestock revolution.” In Africa, for example, the demand for livestock-derived foods is projected to increase by 80% from 2010 to 2030, mostly because of population growth. Asia, already the largest consumer of livestock-derived foods, will see a nearly 60% jump in consumption—and much of that will be due to rising incomes and greater urbanization. That demand can and should be channeled effectively, to ensure that those increases translate into higher incomes for farmers, better nutritional outcomes for children, and greater socio-economic opportunities for women.
The breadth of the opportunities these figures represent requires new science and new research results that are taken to scale. This report highlights just a few of the many activities ILRI staff have undertaken in the past year.
Jimmy Smith Lindsay Falvey Director general Chair of the ILRI of ILRI Board of Trustees
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Jimmy Smith (L) with Lindsay Falvey received a doctorate with honoris causa and gave the commencement speech (or Occa-sional Address) at the University of Melbourne, Australia, on 6 Dec 2018
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Novel index developed to measure women’s empowerment in livestock production
Index will improve the targeting of interventions in livestock to benefit women
ILRI has adapted a tool to measure women’s em-powerment in agriculture to focus on key areas of livestock production. The tool will help stakeholders develop livestock interventions that can effectively support women’s empowerment, ultimately enhanc-ing the effectiveness of these interventions.
Building a bioinformatics community for agricultural sciences in Africa
ILRI’s BecA-Hub is using cutting-edge science to help Africa achieve food and nutrition security
The BecA-ILRI hub has created an alumni community of over 300 national agricultural research systems researchers in Africa who collectively work to advance and accelerate research in the bio-sciences by harnessing the opportunities available through the Hub’s high-end applications and tools.
RHoMIS: A rapid, standardized and cost-effective tool for tracking agricultural performance
The tool measures the effectiveness of agricultural interventions on climate change adaptation and mitigation
Researchers at ILRI have developed a tool to rapidly measure an array of key indicators regarding agri-culture and climate change, including agricultural production and market integration, nutrition, food security, poverty and greenhouse gas emissions. Known as the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Sur-vey (RHoMIS), the tool is becoming widely adopted.
In the lab—good science is the foundation of ILRI’s work
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ILRI scientist Steve Staal with pig farm owner in the Philippines
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Using smartphones to track livestock disease outbreaks in northern Kenya
An electronic disease surveillance system is improving early detection of livestock diseases, making interventions more accurate and effective
Taking advantage of the widespread uptake of mo-bile telephony throughout Kenya, ILRI has initiated an innovative, community-led system of syndromic livestock disease surveillance in five counties in northern Kenya, using smartphones to collect and transmit surveillance data.
Converting straws and stover into concentrates
A novel way of treating crop residues may yield a host of benefits for farmers, local economies, and the broader environment
About 4 billion tonnes of renewable biomass come from crop residues, which are the major feed resource in most of the live-stock systems where ILRI is working. Unfortunately, most cereal crop residues make for poor fodder, and animals fed on them alone rarely thrive. In India, ILRI is working on improving the fod-der quality of crop residues with novel technologies developed from the biofuel industry.
Securing rangelands and settling conflicts through village land use planning in Tanzania
ILRI is helping pastoralists and farmers in Tanzania develop land use strate-gies that enable both communities to reduce conflicts and improve natural resource management
ILRI is implementing a research-for-development project that has helped secure nearly 150,000 hectares of contested grazing land for livestock grazing in Kiteto district in Tanzania. The deal is helping reduce sometimes-deadly conflicts among the area’s land users, a problem which has grown increasingly severe in recent years. It will also improve productivity of the land and enhance its environmental services.
Scientists and farmers swap information for more profitable milk production
Cell phone apps and emerging genomics are giving farmers and scientists the information they need to improve dairy cattle in Africa
Building on a locally developed smart phone app, ILRI has developed an information and communi-cation system to sustainably improve dairy cattle breeding in east Africa through a mutually beneficial partnership that gives scientists the data they need to properly evaluate breeding programs, while giv-ing farmers advice on how to improve their animals’ health and productivity.
In the field—ILRI is committed to research for development
ILRI scientist James Ombura prepares to vaccinate cows. ILRI campus (Nairobi)
A dairy farmer in Tanzania checks her phone for updates from the ADGG program headquarters
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Capacity development—building local capacity and mentoring the next generation of agriculture scientists
Mentoring women to become future leaders in science
The next generation of African women scientists are honing their skills at BecA-ILRI Hub
BecA-ILRI Hub is reaching out to women scientists across Africa to build their capacity for training and research using modern, high-end bioscience technologies including genomics, genetics and bio-informatics tools. The goal is to help a new genera-tion of women scientists accelerate animal and crop genetic gains and improve productivity.
Fostering south-south partnerships to improve food safety in Asia Mutual learning and cooperation among Asian countries can help address food safety issues
ILRI scientists are scaling up lessons from their work on building food safety capacity in Vietnam through an innovative peer-to-peer program with stake-holders in the regional countries of Bangladesh, Cambodia and Thailand. So far, ILRI scientists have trained more than 100 officials and researchers from the three countries on different frameworks for food safety risk assessment.
ILRI recognized at 2018 world food prize
ILRI has participated in the WFP’s internship pro-gram for nearly 20 years
Some 23 US high school students have interned at ILRI under the auspices of the prestigious Borlaug- Ruan International Internship program in the nearly 20 years since it began. They’ve spent time in the lab, as well as days or weeks at a time in the field. ILRI recently asked former participants about their experience and how it has shaped their lives.
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ILRI digital reach and social media, 2018
Data courtesy wizdom.ai
Views on the ILRI web ecosystem
ILRI is co-hosted by the governments of Ethiopia and Kenya and has offices in 8 other countries in Africa (Burking Faso, Burundi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe); 4 countries in Asia (China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam); and 2 other hosting locations: Costa Rica and Scotland.
In 2018, ILRI had 620 permanent staff. The population at ILRI is 38% female and 62% male.
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Unique visitors Number of visits Pages
ILRI offices and staff worldwideILRI peer-reviewed scientificpublication trends
Open vs. non-open access
OA Share Non-OA Share
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-OA
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Years
2009
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2011
2012
2013
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2015
2016
2017
2018
Years
Total income Expenses
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Publications
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1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
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2007
2008
2009
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2012
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2018
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Pub
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Citation ratio
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1997
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2011
2012
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2018
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ILRI funding trends, 2008-2018
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Source: ILRI 2018 financial statement
ILRI information products, 2018 (all types)
Blog posts
401
Theses and videos
97
Books, chapters and reports
216
Presentations and posters
187
Journal articles
284
FaceBook642,924
Twitter1,228,000
views views
Twitter23,900
Slide share183,836
followers views
Google page1,449,110
Learning portal4,470
viewsviews
flickr1,755,948
Youtube436, 368
views views
Blog posts331,359
Website
views views4,261,538
About 620 ILRI staff work in Africa and Asia to enhance incomes and livelihoods, improve food security, and reduce disease and environmental degradation. Australian animal scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Peter Doherty serves as ILRI’s patron. Organizations that fund ILRI through their contributions to CGIAR make ILRI’s work possible. Organizations that partner ILRI in its mission make livestock research for development a reality.
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