The ILRI campus in Nairobi is a hub for agriculture, food systems and climate research with 7 CGIAR centres based on campus as well as a number of other international organisations and programs. On this tour you will visit the bioscience labs which include high-end bioscience facilities that support CGIAR's plant and animal research spanning vaccines and diagnostics, One Health, Anti-Microbial Resistance, nutrition and mycotoxin assessment, tissue culture and plant transformation, genomics, bioinformatics. In addition, you will visit the Mazingira ('environment') centre, a unique resource in Africa that enables direct measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from animals. The centre includes a Laser spectroscopy and gas chromatography instruments.
The tour will last for 3 hours (expected time to and from UN venue is 4.5 hours). This is limited to 30 people.
Location: Google Maps
Distance from UNON: 18km
Duration of the overall trip: Half a Day (Post 5 Hours)
Group size: 30
