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We conduct livestock-based research that empowers people to successfully deal with the challenges of poverty and achieve sustainable development. Working in extensive and strategic partnerships with international partners, scientists, farmers and local communities we apply high quality science and capacity-building to enable people make the best of their livestock-based livelihood systems. We focus on biotechnology for livelihoods; people, livestock and environment; market opportunities; poverty and gender and sustainable livestock futures as key themes that guide our goal of securing assets to reduce vulnerability, increasing productivity and expanding markets to increase incomes. Our work is based in the developing world where livestock not only provide food and income but are also a vital resource that is a key pathway out of poverty for many of the world’s rural poor.
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Speech by former Director General Carlos Seré at the liveSTOCK Exchange, Addis Ababa 9-10 November 2011.
Speeches by ILRI Director General Carlos Seré and Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Federal Republic of Germany on her visit to the ILRI Nairobi campus on 12 July 2011. Language: German and English
Transcript - non-official translatiomn.
To help achieve the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) which Ethiopia is implementing, The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) through the Improving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers project (IPMS) is proving professional support to smallholder farmers. This is believed to enable smallholder farmers to change their way of production from daily consumption to market-oriented production.
During the workshop, Dr Edemalem Shitaye, delegate from the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), said that market-oriented agricultural production system has a significant role to achieve the GTP.
ILRI’s Deputy Director General, Dr John McDermott noted that the IPMS project is working towards the transfer of significant lessons and experiences gained by participatory market-oriented development.
Mr Edmond Wega, CIDA director for Ethiopia and head of development cooperation, said that to bring about growth and development there is a need to produce market-oriented agricultural products and become competitive in the international market.
Alan Duncan of ILRI and Jürgen Greiling of SNV Ethiopia reflect on a 'fodder roundtable' held at ILRI on 27 January 2011. The meeting discussed and evaluated current practices of feeding dairy cattle in Ethiopia.
From 31 January to 2 February 2011, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) hosts a workshop on gender and market oriented agriculture. Here, two of the meeting organizers - Jemimah Njuki and Ranjitha Puskur introduce the aims and anticipated outcomes of the workshop.
Speaking at the launch of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) ILRI Hub on 5 November 2010, Aggrey Ambali of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) refects on the importance of research to address problems of hunger, low agricultural productivity, rapid population growth and natural and human made disasters.
Speaking at the launch of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) ILRI Hub on 5 November 2010, ILRI Director General Carlos Seré welcomed the President of Kenya and other guests. He said that the BecA ILRI hub now enables scientists from research institutes and universities across Eastern and Central Africa to come to Nairobi and undertake critical research using the most advanced tools. He emphasized how the Hub plays a critical role in responding to the urgent needs of Africa to boost science capacity. BecA is about exploiting the common body of knowledge to leap frog the search for solutions, this is BecA’s unique contribution to Africa’s science endeavor.
