Scoles, Knowles, and Massaro Ueti, an ADRU veterinary medical officer, teamed up with
ILRI scientists to develop a polymerase chain reaction test that detects parasite DNA in ticks to quantify the level of infection.
Drainage Principles and Applications,
ILRI Publication 16, second edition, Wageningen, Olanda, 1994;
So far, the
ILRI produced new/improved vaccines and diagnostic tools, and characterized, quantified and mapped the phenotypic and genetic diversity in Animal Genetic Resources for livestock conservation and use.
Carlos Sere, director general of the
ILRI, has an optimistic interpretation.
With bases in Nairobi and Addis Ababa, and with a history of research that has benefited livestock farmers throughout the world,
ILRI was perfectly qualified to throw light on the problems besetting the Maasai pastoralists.
We would like to thank for their helpful comments at various stages of elaboration of the paper Debraj Ray, Jean Dreze, Badel Mukherji, Brent Swallow, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Maurice Schiff, Sam Bowies, Jim Boyce, Katie Baird, Ravi Kanbur, Paul Seabright, Dilip Mookherjee, Pranab Bardhan, Jeff Dayton-Johnson, and participants to various seminars in which this paper has been presented (Delhi School of Economics, January 1995;
ILRI, Nairobi and
ILRI, Adis-Ababa, April 1995; Berkeley, September 1995; Amherst, May 1996; MacArthur Research Cluster on Costs of Inequality, MIT, October 1996), as well as two anonymous referees and an editor of this Journal.
At the time this comment was written he was affiliated with the International Livestock Centre for Africa, a predecessor to
ILRI.
The Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecAILRI) Hub is a world-class agricultural research and biosciences facility located at and managed by
ILRI in Nairobi, Kenya.
On Sunday,
ILRI director Jimmy Smith explained that invaders' activities had affected research.
We wish to express our appreciation to the team at
ILRI for affording us at AJFAND to produce and carry this issue on such an important topic.
The moot is being organized by Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) in collaboration with Livestock and Dairy Development Department-Government of Balochistan, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN and other National and International Development Partners (USAID,
ILRI, CIMMYT and Australian AID).
ICARDA, CIMMYT, IRRI,
ILRI, IFPRI) and UN organizations.
