Poster prepared by ILRI for the ILRI Annual Program Meeting (APM) 2010, held at ILRI campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 14-17, 2010.

1. People, Livestock and the Environment
Livestock can have positive and negative impacts on the
environment, on society and on health. These are vastly
different depending on many factors, such as:
Developing or developed country
Degree of intensification – from large scale industrial
production to intense smallholders through to
extensive pastoralists and everything in
between
Economic development – agricultural, transforming,
urbanized
ILRI’s People, Livestock and the Environment theme seeks to
understand how the transitions of livestock systems can occur in Identifying
ways that do not damage the environment. Here we show opportunities for
examples of how our research identifies potential livestock “bads” improved
and seeks to find opportunities to mitigate these through: management of
water for
livestock
Optimizing ways Feed block manufacturing: supplementation,
densification
to feed animals
using mostly
Sorghum stover - locally available
Ingredients %
a valuable feed in resources
Sorghum stover 50
Bran/husks/hulls 18
Hyderabad Oilcakes 18
Molasses 8
Grains 4
Minerals, vitamins, 2
urea
Finding livestock feeds
that make the most Courtesy: Miracle Fodder and Feeds PVT LTD
use of natural variation
Understanding how livestock
management in extensive systems
can contribute to the
conservation of biodiversity
The good news is … And the not so good news is …
There are opportunities to improve livestock production without In many cases, livestock production comes with an
undue environmental damage environmental cost, and mitigating this requires complex, new
and innovative biophysical and social science
April 2010