Visit this Pinterest page maintained by ILRI for 102 advocacy communications: Livestock—Opinions.

This year, with a pilot project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation starting in Sep 2016, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) stepped up its advocacy work supporting livestock development for a more sustainable and equitable world.

The following are among ILRI’s top advocacy communications of 2016.

By Shirley Tarawali
Plant scientist and crop-livestock and pastoral systems specialist/ILRI assistant director general
Harnessing livestock for the Sustainable Development Goals, 21 Mar 2016

 

By Shirley Tarawali
DID YOU KNOW? ILRI in the Livestock Global Alliance, 1 Jun 2016

By Delia Grace
Veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert/ILRI program leader/A4NH flagship leader
Pandemic proofing the world—An epidemiologist in Nairobi on the next Zika virus, 28 Jun 2016

By Jimmy Smith
Animal scientist and leader/ILRI director general
Jimmy Smith’s address to UK parliamentary group on the potential of livestock for development, 4 Jul 2016

By Jimmy Smith
Balancing the plate: Jimmy Smith opens ‘Private Sector Mechanism Partnerships Forum on Livestock’, 6 Jul 2016

By Shirley Tarawali
No one left behind: Livestock at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, 21 Jul 2016

By Tim Robinson
Spatial analyst/ILRI principal scientist
Apocalyptic numbers: Antibiotic resistance as the classic ‘One Health’ (and classic ‘One World’) planetary issue, 4 Aug 201

By Jimmy Smith
Veganism is not the key to sustainable development–natural resources are vital, 16 Aug 2016

By Susan MacMillan
Writer/ILRI public awareness and advocacy leader
ILRI remarks to UN Committee on Food Security commending newly agreed livestock recommendations, 18 Oct 2016

By Polly Ericksen
Environmental and global change scientist/ILRI program leader
Let’s ‘meat’ in the middle on climate change, 4 Nov 2016

By Polly Ericksen
Animals must play a part in meeting Paris climate goals, 4 Nov 2016

By Delia Grace and Shirley Tarawali
Unpacking the tensions between the nutritional and economic goals of pro-poor livestock development, 10 Nov 2016

By Phil Thornton
Agricultural systems and climate change scientist/ILRI principal scientist/CCAFS flagship leader
Fighting climate change in a post-modernist world of pop art politics—Opinion by Phil Thornton, 1 Dec 2016

By Jimmy Smith
Livestock opportunities for responsible, inclusive and sustainable business-for-development partnerships, 2 Dec 2016

By Delia Grace
Opinion: Can the livestock sector find the elusive ‘win-win’ on drug resistance? 16 Dec 2016

For links to more such advocacy pieces, visit this Pinterest page maintained by ILRI: Livestock—Opinions.