Research on dry land is strategic place for ILRI to expand its research and development portfolio and Polly suggested her idea on forage management for dry land. In this virtual meeting, there are some discussion among Polly, Lance, Karen, Isabelle, et al. suggesting/implying that ILRI can study and improve disease control and breeding in dry land and contribute to pastoralists' livestock production and then their welfare. Since I could not find such an idea in this idea pool, let me suggest it. Also, there are ideas to identify what farmers really want and use stake-holder platform for improving resilience in arid land and so we can ask them to help us with their ideas and skills as well. ILRI also have social scientists who can do M&E. ILRI has all necessary skills and expertise and seems to have enough interests in this idea. So, why don't we spend more time on this idea?

I was told that Morris Agaba et al. have R&D project on improving goats by breeding and one of their sites is agro-pastoral area in Ethiopia. For breeding, we can study it as a first step.