August 21, 2024
The Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH) will hold its 2024 Annual Meeting at the International Livestock Research Institute’s Nairobi offices from 23 to 26 September.
Around 80 people will attend the four-day meeting including CTLGH’s three Principals – Prof. Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General of ILRI, Prof. Wayne Powell, Principal and Chief Executive of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and Prof. Bruce Whitelaw, Director of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh.
It will be the first Annual Meeting since Prof. Mizeck Chagunda became CTLGH’s Director, a post he took up in April. We will also be joined by representatives from at least three of our four funders: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Roslin Foundation.
The programme comprises three days of presentations and discussions, and one day of field trips. There will be three main types of presentation: pathway-to-impact looking at the bigger picture; scientific which will showcase the science and results of work underway; and project management where project management issues with respect to the Results Framework of CTLGH will be presented.
The field trips will include visits to small holder dairy, poultry and small ruminant farmers, a milk processing plant and the Nairobi Trade Fair.
CTLGH is a strategic livestock genetics research and development alliance established in 2014 by the University of Edinburgh (through The Roslin Institute), SRUC and ILRI. It aims to be a global leader in generating knowledge and developing methods, tools, technologies and innovations for resilient, efficient, productive, and sustainable tropical livestock.
Image: CTLGH delegates gather in Dumfries for the 2023 Annual Meeting