Presented by Jimmy Smith during the Visit by Sir Mark Walport to ILRI, 15 July 2015

1. ILRI overview
Jimmy Smith, Director General, ILRI, Kenya
Visit by Sir Mark Walport to ILRI, 15 July 2015

2. CIMMYT
Mexico City
Mexico
IFPRI
Wash. DC
USA
CIP
Lima
Peru
CIAT
Cali
Colombia
Bioversity
International
Rome Italy
AfricaRice
Cotonou
Benin
IITA
Ibadan
Nigeria
ILRI
Nairobi
Kenya
World
Agroforestry
Nairobi
Kenya
ICARDA
Beirut
Lebanon ICRISAT
Patancheru
India
IWMI
Colombo
Sri Lanka
IRRI
Los Banos
Phillippines
World Fish
Penang
Malaysia
CIFOR
Bogor
Indonesia
CGIAR Research Centres: members of the
CGIAR consortium

3. ILRI Nairobi campus
IITA CIP CIMMYT IRRI CIFOR
At the foot of Kenya’s Ngong Hills
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4. Addis Campus – A CGIAR Campus
• ILRI
• IWMI
• IFPRI
• CIMMYT
• ICARDA
• ICRAF
• CIP
• Bioversity
• ICRISAT
• CIAT

5. ILRI Offices
Main campuses: Nairobi
and Addis Ababa
Offices in 17 other
countries

6. BIOSCIENCES EASTERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA
(BeCA-ILRI Hub)
A strategic partnership between ILRI and AU-NEPAD.
A biosciences platform that makes the best lab facilities
available to the African scientific community.
Building African scientific capacity.
Identifying agricultural solutions based on modern
biotechnology.

7. Google’s view of the ILRI campus -
laboratory and farm facilities
Labs
Farm and
paddocks
Mazingira Centre:
environmental
research

8. ILRI resources 2015
• Staff: 700+
• Budget: nearly US$90 million
• Senior scientists from 39 countries
• 34% of internationally recruited staff
are women --and 50% of the senior
leadership team
• Main campuses in Kenya and Ethiopia,
and offices in 17 other countries
around the world

9. The ILRI Mandate
 The partnership with AU-NEPAD and other
CGIAR Centers opens the BecA-ILRI Hub as a
biosciences facility for all of agriculture.
 Livestock and livestock related research
focused on the developing world

10. Animalsourcefoods: 4of5highestvalueglobalcommodities
FAOSTAT 2015
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Cow milk has
overtaken rice

11. Gains in meat consumption in developing
countries are outpacing those of developed
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Based on anticipated change in absolute tonnes of product comparing 2000 and 2030

13. Huge increases over 2005/7 amounts
of cereals, dairy and meat will be needed by 2050
From 2bn−3bn
tonnes cereals each year
From 664m−1bn
tonnes dairy each year
From 258m−460m
tonnes meat each year

14. Demand for livestock commodities in developing
economies will be met – the only question is how
Scenario #1
Meeting livestock demand by
importing livestock products
Scenario #2
Meeting livestock demand by
importing livestock industrial production know-how
Scenario #3
Meeting livestock demand by
transforming smallholder livestock systems

15. What’s special about animal/smallholder food?
•90% of animal products are produced
and consumed in the same country or
region
•Most are produced by smallholders
•Over 70% of livestock products
are sold ‘informally’
•500 million smallholders produce 80%
of the developing world’s food
•43% of the agricultural workforce
is female

16. Sustainable animal food systems
are a must
• Productivity and efficiency:
– Sufficient food with lower
environmental foot print: Animal
health, genetics, feeding
• Animal source foods:
– Safe, not wasted and consumed in
appropriate quantities
• Emerging challenges:
– Zoonotic diseases
– Anti-Microbial Resistance

17. Most (75%) emerging diseases come from
animals and cost up to US $ 6 billion annually
ILRI report to DFID: Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012
Emerging zoonotic disease events, 1940−2012

18. Costs of emerging zoonotic disease outbreaks
(US$ billion)
Period
Cost
(conservative estimates)
6 outbreaks excluding SARS
− Nipah virus (Malaysia)
− West Nile fever (USA)
− HPAI (Asia, Europe)
− BSE (US)
− Rift Valley fever (Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia)
− BSE (UK) costs 1997−09 only
1998−2009 38.7
SARS 2002−2004 41.5
Total over 12 years 1998−2009 80.2
World Bank 2012Giving an annual average of US$6.7 billion

19. Antimicrobial resistance
Source: Van Boeckel et al. 2015
Global antimicrobial use in food animals
(mg per 10km pixel)

20. As much as half of the agricultural GHG emissions
come from animals
GHG per kg of animal protein produced varies
hugely: Big opportunities to mitigate
Herrero et al. 2013

21. Mazingira House
(ILRI environmental research centre)
Background
The only environmental research center in
Africa with state-of-the art equipment for
establishing environmental footprints (GHG,
soil, water) for livestock production systems,
operational since beginning of year 2015
Vision:
• To test and develop feeding and manure
management strategies that increases
livestock, feed and crop production while
decreasing GHG emissions.
• Serving as a center for capacity building
for environmental monitoring and
assessments.

22. ILRI and the UK
 Major on going projects (2012 – 2018) total value £5.9
million
 18 ILRI staff are from the UK, 11 are based in Nairobi
 Key UK partners and collaborators include:
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Institute of
Development Studies,
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