“The State of ILRI”

APM, Addis Ababa, April 2010

Carlos Seré, Director General ILRIApril 2010

Key messages

1. CGIAR reform process moving rapidly; ILRI has opportunity drive international livestock research agenda in the new CGIAR; ILRI scientists need to help shape megaprograms

2. ILRI needs to focus on limited number of development related initiatives, where we have core competencies to deliver outcomes & impact;

3. CGIAR consortium funding uncertain. Resource mobilization will be major challenge in new CGIAR.

The evolving context

• Food price crisis

• Agriculture back on the agenda

• New funding streams

• GCARD: fractured R&D system

• Consortium getting going

Why livestock in a CGIAR agenda

Potential to address poverty

Threat of global bads (methane, emerging diseases, resource degradation)

Need to understand the poor and their livestock livelihoods to tackle global bads

Research for development paradigm: knowledge to action

strong systems basis biotechnology and ICTs as key levers

innovation systems mindset

I increasing involvement with private sector

knowledge management and strategic communications

embedding research in development interventionsMPs?

ILRI in the MPs

1. Agricultural systems for the poor and vulnerable

2. Enabling agricultural incomes for the poor

3. Optimizing productivity of global food security

commodities

4. Agriculture, nutrition and health

5. Water, soils and ecosystems

6. Forests and trees

7. Climate change and agriculture

Sustainable intensification

Sustainable intensification in smallholder crop/livestock systems; improving system efficiency through better feed quality, health and animal performance, in context of increasing competition for land and other resources (eg biofuels)

Livestock futures

Food feed crops

Appropriate genotypes

Hubs, innovation platforms

Hub concept

Vulnerability

Vulnerability – Identifying livestock interventions to reduce the vulnerability of livestock dependent households; understanding relations between livestock systems and other ecosystem services.

Vaccines, index based insurance, ecosystem services

Poverty traps, safety nets, cargo nets

Climate change

Climate change – livestock based adaptation to impacts of climate change; growing trade offs between livestock production and other ecosystem services; managing livestock negative impacts on climate change.

Targeting of interventions

Intensification of ruminant systems

Carbon sequestration in rangelands

Food safety and market access

SPS and markets – Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues, growing market requirements for food safety and quality constraining market access by smallholders

Risk versus rule based approaches

Appropriate development of smallholder dairy markets

Emerging zoonotic diseases

Emerging diseases – combating bird flu and other emerging diseases in developing countries;

Ecohealth approaches

understanding and mapping risks

participatory epidemiology

Vaccines

Vaccine development for livestock diseases; focus on addressing common problem of improving the immune response to protozoan parasites

Improving existing vaccines (ECF, CBPP)

Getting vaccines used in the field

Next generation of pro-poor vaccines

Conservation and Sustainable Use of Animal Genetic

Resources Priority setting for conservation

Appropriate methodologies of conservation

Reproductive technologies for fast deployment of improved genotypes

Delivery of appropriate AGR to smallholder systems

Challenge

How we integrate all of this in a new CONSORTIUM and MPs?

Gender?

Capacity building?

Partnerships?

Performance indicators – ILRI publications 2006-2009

Indicator 2006 2007 2008 2009**

Pubs/ scientist in Thomson’s list of journals

0.91 0.93 0.99 1.63

Pubs/ scientist in peer reviewed journals (excludes Thomson’s list of journals

1.47 1.15 0.91 1.32

% of publications done with developing country partners

51.8% 38.66% 58.71%47.16%

** Not audited

Resource mobilization (1) Strategy and results

New CGIAR funding likely have little/no core funds for centres

Recent ILRI strategy is to concentrate on fewer, larger grants and new or non-traditional sources

Some successes in both aspects of strategy

Resource mobilization (2)Some examples

New competitive science funding through

NSF/Gates program for basic research for development (BREAD) - 2 proposals successful

Similar call in UK for DFID/BBSRC – 3 proposals

Australian food security initiative in East Africa to provide substantial support for BecA ILRI Hub for research and capacity building (USD 10m/4 yrs)

Resource mobilization (3)

Strategy to diversify funding sources and seek

larger grants having some success

ILRI now has wider range of investors, with more science funders, foundations, private sector

Several proposals under discussion with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The new challenge: Co-development of RM strategies with development partners

Financial outlook 2009 results and 2010 budget

Results Budget 2009 2010 (April)

Income* 57.73 44.634

Expenses* 56.49 43.775

Surplus 1.242 0.859

*2009 includes Beca /ILRI Hub 17.21

Knowledge management and information services

Several new approaches being implemented to improve knowledge sharing across the institute and globally -

ILRI external Web site – re-launched and over 500,000 views in first 3 months of 2010

Social media: ILRI now on twitter, several blogs, etc

Publishing guidelines being revised to encourage open access and wide dissemination

Google books project: All ILRI (and ILCA and ILRAD) books, reports and publications now freely available on line. Over 200,000 pages read in 2010.

ILRI Web Services Stats 2009-2010

-100,000200,000300,000400,000500,000600,000700,000800,000900,000

1,000,0001,100,0001,200,000

Film and slide views 3,074 3,074 3,074 3,074 3,919

Repository views - - - - 65,050

Newsfeed clicks - - 597 9,502 25,647

Blog views 66 197 725 21,087 48,582

Google book pageviews - - 3,813 111,488 246,725

ILRInet pageviews 203,438 207,303 201,277 191,612 184,550

Website pageviews 492,152 475,342 426,914 419,414 529,254

2009Q1 2009Q2 2009Q3 2009Q4 2010Q1

Key messages

1. CGIAR reform process moving rapidly; ILRI has opportunity drive international livestock research agenda in the new CGIAR; ILRI scientists need to help shape megaprograms

2. ILRI needs to focus on limited number of development related initiatives, where we have core competencies to deliver outcomes & impact;

3. CGIAR consortium funding uncertain. Resource mobilization will be major challenge in new CGIAR.

ILRI Spearheading a New Way Forward

ILRI’s value proposition “ILRI is creating and integrating knowledge to enable diverse partners to find innovative solutions to make livestock a sustainable pathway out of poverty”