The International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA) is one of the 13 international agricultural research centres funded by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The 13 centres, located mostly within the tropics, have been set up by the CGIAR over the last decade to provide long-term support for agricultural development in the Third World. Their names, locations and research responsibilities are as follows:
The consultative group on international agricultural research
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Colombia: cassava, field beans, rice and tropical pastures.Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico: maize and wheat.
Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Peru: potato.
International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Lebanon: farming systems, cereals, food legumes (broad bean, lentil, chickpea), and forage crops.
International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR), Italy.
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India: chickpea, pigeon pea, pearl milks, sorghum, groundnut, and farming systems.
International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), Ethiopia: African livestock production
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Philippine: rice.
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria: farming systems, maize, rice, roots and tubers (sweet potatoes, cassava, yams), and food legumes (cowpea, lima bean, soybean).
International Laboratory for Research on Animal Disease (ILRAD), Kenya: trypanosomiasis and theileriosis of cattle.
West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), Liberia: rice.
International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), the Netherlands.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA: analysis of world food problems
ILCA RESEARCH REPORTS
1. Tendances et perspectives de l'agriculture et de l'élevage en Afrique tropicale, by C. de Montgolfier-Kouévi and A. Vlavonou. 1983.
2. Cattle herd dynamics: An integer and stochastic model for evaluating production alternatives, by P.A. Konandreas and F.M. Anderson. 1982.
3. Evaluation of the productivities of Djallonke sheep and N'Dama cattle at the Centre de Recherches Zootechniques, Kolda, Senegal, by A. Fall, M. Diop, J. Sandford, Y.J. Wissocq, J. Durkin and J.C.M. Trail. 1982.
4. Research on farm and livestock productivity in the central Ethiopian highlands: Initial results, by G. Gryseels and F.M. Anderson. 1983.
5. Recherches sur les systèmes des zones arides du Mali: Résultats préliminaires, éds R.T. Wilson, P.N. de Leeuw and C. de Haan. 1983.
6. The water resource in tropical Africa and its exploitation, by K.A. Edwards, G.A. Classen and E.H.J. Schroten. 1983.
7. Livestock water needs in pastoral Africa in relation to climate and forage, by J.M. King. 1983.
8. Organisation and management of water supplies in tropical Africa, by S.G. Sandford. 1983.
9. Productivity of Boran cattle maintained by chemoprophylaxis under trypanosomiasis risk by J.C.M. Trail, K. Sones, J.M.C. Jibbo, J. Durkin, D.E. Light and Max Murray. 1985.
10. Economic trade-offs between milk and meat production under various supplementation levels in Botswana, by PA. Konandreas, F.M. Anderson and J.C.M. Trail. 1983.
11. Crossbred dairy cattle productivity in Arsi region, Ethiopia, by G.H. Kiwuwa, J.C.M. Trail, M.Y. Kurtu, Getachew Worku, F.M. Anderson and J. Durkin. 1983.
12. Evaluation of the productivity of crossbred dairy cattle on smallholder and Government farms in the Republic of Malawi, by Kwaku Agyemang and Lidie P. Nkhonjera. 1986.
13. Productivity of transhumant Fulani cattle in the inner Niger delta of Mali, by K.T. Wagenaar, A. Diallo and A.R. Sayers. 1986.
International Livestock Centre for Africa
P.O. Box 5689
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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