• Improved decision-making to elicit appropriate responses that lead to desired outcomes
• Understanding why we do the things we do (factors, processes)
• Their consequences, learning from them, both the good and the bad (outcomes, impacts)
• And how we could do things better (tools, policies, strategies)

• Ownership of Livestock (OL) assumed to increase agricultural productivity and food security
• OL by women assumed to improve their control over productive resources, gender equity and food security
• Changes in OL used in surveys to assess impact

The problem:

• What are the local understandings of ownership by gender?
• Does OL translate into control?
• How do concepts of ownership affect household food security?

Paper: Galiè A., A. Mulema, A. M. Mora Benard, S. Onzere & K. Colverson 2015:

‘Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua’.

Agriculture & Food Security, 4 (1), 2. http://www.agricultureandfoodsecurity.com/content/4/1/2

Key question:

‘What do women and men associate ‘ownership of livestock’ (OL) with?

Prospects for collaboration:

There are several linkages that we regard as critically important, but we are struggling to fund.

• targeting
• modeling
• high end computer science
• electronics

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  • science-based practices that achieve better lives through livestock
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The science to capitalise on the global livestock genetic diversity

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Research focus:

• Sustainable Intensification (SI): production increased without adverse environmental impact and without the “cultivation” of more land. i.e. efficiency
• Several ILRI-led projects are researching innovations to support this aim (Africa RISING, ZimCLIFS, LIVES).
• How can systems evolve to be more productive without compromising sustainability?

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Research focus:

• Agricultural food and feed production is responsible for approx. 30% of anthropogenic GHG emissions (incl. emissions due to land use change)
• Livestock production does account for approx. 12-14% of anthropogenic GHG emissions (via ruminant CH4 emissions, and N2O and CH4 emissions by manure management), and is  a major driver of land use change (15% of anthropogenic GHG emissions)
• In addition, livestock production causes environmental degradation with regard to e.g. soil C stocks and soil fertility, water quality/ quantity, and biodiversity
• Livestock is a major asset for smallholders. Livestock allows to effectively make use of land unsuitable for cropping.

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• Does it help us reach ILRI strategic objectives?
  • science-based practices that achieve better lives through livestock
  • compelling scientific evidence persuasive for smarter policies and bigger investment
  • increased capacity to better use livestock science and investments for better lives through livestock.

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Rationale

1.East coast fever is the most important  cattle disease  in Eastern and central Africa.

2.There is a live vaccine but there are constrains with it.

3.Therefore, we are working on an improved vaccine.

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Vaccines are among the most effective disease inventions deployed; many vaccines if they exist are sub-optimal.

Program priority diseases: East Coast fever (ECF)  and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) [RVF, ASF, vectors, wild-life reservoirs]

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  • compelling scientific evidence persuasive for smarter policies and bigger investment
  • increased capacity to better use livestock science and investments for better lives through livestock.

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