 Welcome to the International Livestock Research Institute, a CGIAR research centre. ILRI's mission is to improve food and nutritional security and to reduce poverty and environmental degradation in developing countries. ILRI's research on sustainable livestock systems and value chains in poor countries aims to bring about better lives and livelihoods. First established nearly half a century ago, ILRI today has some 600 staff working on two major campuses in Kenya and Ethiopia and in another 14 countries across Africa and Asia. ILRI's Nairobi and Addis Ababa campuses provide staff, partners and students with state-of-the-art facilities for conducting biological, social, environmental and economic research on all aspects of small-scale tropical animal husbandry. This disciplinary breadth makes ILRI uniquely positioned not only to advance research on the complex problems of developing country agriculture but also to help build capacity in livestock research for development and to make further progress in sustainable global development. Let's take a quick tour of ILRI's compass and facilities in Kenya. ILRI has a large campus located in a suburb of Nairobi as well as a large dryland livestock research station and wildlife conservancy called Kapiti, about 60 kilometres to the southeast. ILRI's Nairobi campus also hosts three other CGIAR centres, CGIAR hubs for biosciences, for antimicrobial resistance and for one health as well as several international organisations. ILRI's scientific and technical staff are developing and testing livestock vaccines and treatments to better control emerging and neglected livestock diseases in Africa such as African swine fever and East Coast and Rift Valley fevers. They are investigating ways to improve the efficiency and productivity of small-holder farming and herding systems and determining optimal forages for farmers in different circumstances to grow. And they are determining ways to augment the environmental benefits and to mitigate the environmental costs of developing country livestock systems. Staff of ILRI's Environmental Research and Educational Facility, Mazingira Centre are working to understand, manage and reduce the environmental footprint of small-scale livestock production systems in Africa. For example, using animal respiration chambers and other highly specialised infrastructure, ILRI has provided the first reliable assessments of greenhouse gas emissions from African livestock and will be able to help African countries track their progress toward meeting climate change targets. ILRI's biosciences laboratories support African and international scientists. These facilities include biosecure laboratories for research in genomics, bioinformatics, zoonotic diseases, nutrition analysis, tissue culture, vaccine development and diagnostics, containment facilities enabling safe genetic manipulation of plants and infectious materials and long-term liquid nitrogen storage of biological materials such as blood, serum and tissue of livestock and their pathogens. In all this research, ILRI focuses on mentoring the next generation of scientists and on building institutional as well as individual capacity to conduct similar livestock-related research in the national agricultural research institutions of Africa and Asia. ILRI's Kenyan facilities, staff and partners are important research assets for Kenya and the wider African and global scientific communities. These scientists are helping people around the world to transform their livestock-based livelihoods and climb out of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. Thanks for taking the tour.