Livestock is a key sector in Uganda, contributing approximately 4.3% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Nearly 60 ...

A new four-year project to improve milk quality, safety and marketing in Kenya has been launched by the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB), the International ...

Hon. Abdallah Hamisi Ulega, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, speaking at the ILRI@50 celebrations in Dar es Salaam, ...

ILRI is actively engaged in several CGIAR initiatives and platforms.

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a 10-year plan to build resilient and sustainable agrifood systems in Africa. The Kampala Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Declaration ...

The program brings together technologies and approaches from other ILRI programs (and elsewhere) in a systems context to address synergies and trade-offs to optimize the economic, social and ...

The Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub was established in 2003 in Nairobi, Kenya, and had operated under the African Union/New ...

To maximize livestock-mediated welfare and livelihoods among women and men smallholder and pastoral producers and their communities, and increase the availability of quality animal-source food to poor ...

African livestock producers have a unique opportunity to improve the production of meat, milk and eggs through modern breeding technologies and innovations being tested in Africa, according to a ...

ILRI Feed and Forage Development Program aims to tackle key challenges and unlock opportunities within the feed and fodder value chains. By enhancing both the quatity and quality of feed resources, we ...