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Better lives through livestock We work to improve food security and reduce poverty through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock Why livestock matter Livestock in developing countries contribute up to 80% of agricultural GDP; 600 million rural poor people rely on livestock for their livelihoods. Lancet countdown The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a comprehensive yearly analysis tracking progress across 41 key indicators , demonstrating what action to meet Paris Agreement targets—or business as usual—means for human health. The indicators are split into... read more Global Challenges Many of the most pressing global challenges today involve livestock. More than half a billion people in developing countries depend in whole or in part on farm animals for their livelihood. Some 821 million people are undernourished, many of them because they lack the proteins and micronutrients most readily available in animal-sourced food. The prospects of zoonotic pandemics or of human-triggered climate change are real and growing. The good news is that the livestock sector presents opportunities to address these challenges in ways that are safe, environmentally sustainable and broadly affordable. Explore the themes below about how livestock can feed and sustain today’s population and tomorrow’s in a way that is sustainable, environmentally friendly, and economically inclusive. Environment Food Gender Health Prosperity What we do ILRI's research is directed to improving food and nutrition security through increased production and access to animal-source foods; stimulating economic development and poverty reduction through enhanced livestock value chains and increased productivity; improving human health through improved access to animal-source foods and a reduction in the burden of zoonotic and food-borne diseases; and managing the adaptation of livestock systems to climate change and mitigating the impact of livestock on the environment. Develop capacity Influence decisions Research outputs Why livestock matter Emerging diseases $ 6.7 billion Annual cost of new human diseases transmitted from animals Learn more Global agricultural GDP 40 % Contribution made by livestock Read more Number of people 1.3 billion who depend mainly on livestock for their livelihoods Learn more Latest News Mazingira blog 22 Feb 2020 Lutz Merbold Where does the methane in the atmosphere come from? In February 2020 a team from ILRI’s Mazingira Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London and Cambridge University went on a trip through Southern Kenya to sample air. Sampling air may sound arbitrary yet the bigger aim of this field campaign was to derive samples from livestock including cattle,... capacity strengthening climate change environment livestock AVCD program blog 20 Feb 2020 ILRI Communications When Participatory Approaches Mess up Your Plans I never imagined that this man who had brought his herd into this other community’s pastures and flouted the community’s grazing rules, and whose actions had disrupted our training workshop would become a champion of our approach. The Interrupted Workshop I had come to Turkana County in... livestock pastoralism value chains rangelands CGIAR Research Program on Livestock 18 Feb 2020 Mireille Ferrari Making the case for new data on rangelands A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family’s animals Photo S. Mann/ILRI “What if much of the basic information being used to describe approximately half of the world’s land surface dated from as far back as the 1960s? (And, is ‘approximately half’ even still a correct estimation?)” This is the question... drylands environment pastoralism rangelands More ILRI news Latest publications Report Published 2019 LUKE-ADGG hands-on animal genetic and genomic evaluation joint course, Nairobi, Kenya, 9-13 September 2019 animal breeding capacity strengthening dairying genetics livestock Brochure Published 2019 Kapiti Research Station: A livestock, environmental and agricultural research station in southeastern Kenya agriculture environment livestock research Blog Post Published 2018 Why Ethiopia’s dairy industry can’t meet growing demand for milk animal production dairying livestock more publications Where we work ILRI carries out its research in East, Southern, and West Africa, in South and Southeast Asia, and in China and maintains offices in the countries below. Click on a region or country to visit its specific page and find out about the people, projects and publications there. better lives through livestock ILRI Kenya PO Box 30709 Nairobi 00100, Kenya +254-20 422 3000 +254-20 422 3001 ILRI-Kenya@cgiar.org ILRI Ethiopia PO Box 5689 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia +251-11 617 2000 +251-11 617 2001 ILRI-Ethiopia@cgiar.org Get Involved Facebook Twitter Slideshare Flickr Youtube LinkedIn Pinterest Stay updated news.ilri.org clippings.ilri.org livestock.cgiar.org Patron: Professor Peter C Doherty AC, FAA, FRS Animal scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology or Medicine–1996. -- ILRI thanks all donors and organizations that globally support its work through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund . Copyright and permissions © 2020 International Livestock Research Institute Creative commons...