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| Formation | 1994 |
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| Headquarters | Nairobi, Kenya |
Parent organization | CGIAR |
| Website | ilri |
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TheInternational Livestock Research Institute orILRI is an international agriculturalresearch institute within theCGIAR – formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research.[1] It was established in 1994 by merger of the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases inNairobi in Kenya, and the International Livestock Centre for Africa inAddis Ababa in Ethiopia.[2]: 6 [3]: 1 It is anon-profit,non-governmental organisation.[4]: 71
Its research is intended to help to build sustainablelivestock pathways out of poverty in low-income countries and to help people in those countries to keep their farm animals alive and productive, to increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity, and to find profitable markets for their animal products.[5][self-published source?] Research covers five broad areas: thenatural environment; food;gender; health; andprosperity.[6]
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