Invitation to the ILRI Side Event at the Africa Agriculture Science Week 2013, Accra, Ghana, 15 July 2013

1. Livestock research for Africa’s food security
Livestock are a key part of the solution to Africa’s food security challenge
Learn how ILRI, CGIAR and partners support livestock sector research and development through a strategy that works
in partnerships to inform practice, take livestock science solutions to scale, influence decision making and develop
livestock capacities.
Discussion topics include:
• Vaccine biosciences
• Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA)-ILRI hub
• Food safety and mycotoxins
• The biomass crisis in intensifying smallholder systems
• Risk and vulnerability in dry lands
Executive room 4
Accra International Conference Centre
15 July 2013
9.00am - 12.00pm
complimentary lunch thereafter
R.S.V.P. Teresa Werrhe-Abira T.Werrhe-Abira@cgiar.org
CGIAR is a global agricultural research partnership for a food-secure future.
Its science is carried out by 15 research centres that are members of the CGIAR Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner
organizations.
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invitation
Side Event at the Africa Agriculture Science Week 2013
Did you know?
The livestock sector contributes as much as
40% of GDP in many African countries
Four of the top five agricultural commodities
by value come from livestock
In the next 20 years Africa’s demand for beef,
dairy products, pork and poultry is expected
to rise by between 100 and 200%
RESEARCH
PROGRAM ON
Livestock and Fish