New Report

Introducing ILC's 2019-2021 Triennial Report: People, Land, Planet

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  • Contact: Ms Polly Ericksen
  • Address: P.O Box: 30709 Nairobi, Kenya
  • Phone: +254 20 422 3000
  • Email: ilri-kenya@cgiar.org
  • Web: www.ilri.org
  • Members:
    ILRI

ILRI

INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE

2011

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
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Diverse Tenure Systems

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
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Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality science and capacity-building (i.e. training others to sustain the areas of improvement that science and technology have developed) to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development for poor livestock keepers and their communities. Much of ILRI’s work is conducted in extensive and strategic partnerships that facilitate and add value to the contribution of many other players in livestock for development work. 

ILRI is creating and integrating knowledge to enable diverse partners to find innovative solutions to make livestock a sustainable pathway out of poverty.

Objectives

The organisation's objectives include securing assets to reduce vulnerability, increasing productivity to improve livelihoods, increasing incomes by enhancing market competitiveness and access. Built into all research projects is awareness of environmental impact. Furthermore, ILRI scientists are cognizant of the important role women play in livestock production and marketing and ultimately in reducing poverty.

Constituencies

ILRI's constituencies include scientists, policy makers and governments, NGOs and development agencies, smallholder farmers, civil societies and students. 

  • Contact: Ms Polly Ericksen
  • Address: P.O Box: 30709 Nairobi, Kenya
  • Phone: +254 20 422 3000
  • Email: ilri-kenya@cgiar.org
  • Web: www.ilri.org
  • Members:
    ILRI