Introduction to Livestock and Irrigation Value
chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES)
project
Azage Tegegne
LIVES Project Launch Workshop
Addis Ababa, 22 January 2013

LIVES Project
• An ILRI project implemented with IWMI, MoA
and EIAR in partnership with Amhara, Tigray,
Oromia and SNNP Regional States
• Supported by a our development partner –
Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA)
• Focuses on high value, market-oriented and
challenging livestock and irrigated crops

Livestock and Irrigated Agriculture in Ethiopia

Total supply

Per capital supply

Potential and experiences in irrigated
agriculture in Ethiopia
Total 2,010,322 ha

Current irrigation and `
potential for development
Year (EC) Total irrigated area (ha)
1991 176,015
1998 197,250 only improved schemes
625,819 (including traditional)
2004 250,613
Source: MoWaE, 2013; Atinafie, 2007; MoARD

WHY LIVES?
• In line with GoE priorities for agriculture–led
industrialization
• In line with the GTP and AGP and other programs of the
GoE
• Livestock and irrigated agriculture are high value
commodities with huge potential and promise to
transform smallholders from subsistence to market-
orientation
• Piloting for learning and scaling up

What is special about LIVES?
• A unique model for partnerships between CGIAR centers, MoA, NARS and
development institutions to work on developmental outcomes
• Helps to integrate high value irrigated crops and livestock production for
system intensification
• Provides opportunity for testing and developing irrigated fodder production
• Creates a chance to improve water use efficiency
• A model for enhanced nutrient management and cycling system through
use of manure for horticultural crops
• A platform to test water governance through water users associations

LIVES – Goal and Ultimate Outcome
Goal
• To contribute to enhanced income and gender equitable wealth
creation for smallholders and other value chains actors through
increased and sustained market-off-take of high value livestock and
irrigated crop commodities.
Ultimate Outcome
• Increased economic well-being for male and female smallholder
producers in 30 districts in 10 target Zones in Amhara, Oromia,
Tigray, and SNNPR through the development of livestock and
irrigated value chains

Intermediate Outcomes
• Increased use of improved knowledge and capacity by
male and female livestock and irrigated agriculture value
chains and service providers to develop gender sensitive
and environmentally friendly sustainable market-
oriented livestock and irrigated value chains.
• Increased adoption of gender sensitive and
environmentally sustainable market-oriented value
chain interventions by male and female livestock and
irrigated agriculture value chain actors and service
providers.

LIVES Objectives
• Introduction/adaptation of tested and new value chain interventions for
targeted value chains/areas (value chain development)
• Capacity development of value chain actors, service providers and
educational institutions (capacity development)
• Introduction/adaptation of tested and new knowledge management
interventions in support of value chain development (knowledge
management)
• Generation and documentation of new knowledge on value chain
interventions through diagnosis, action and impact research studies (action
research)
• Promotion of knowledge generated for scaling out beyond the project areas
(promotion for scaling out)

Project Focus
Participatory selection of commodities and Zones
Commodities:
• Livestock (dairy, beef, sheep and goats, poultry,
apiculture) and high value irrigated crops
(vegetables, fruits, fodder)
Geographical:
• Ten (10) zones with clusters of Districts
producing selected commodities

LIVES Project Zones

Livestock Resources in the Project Zones

Priority commodity value chains and their zonal
location in the four LIVES Regions
Beef – 3; Dairy 9; Shoats 7; Poultry5; Apiculture 4; irrigation 10

Direct value chain beneficiaries -LIVES
Input
Output Traders/
Producers/
Producers Processors
Supplier s
POLICY
Research Education
Public Support Services

Indirect beneficiaries
• Producers and service providers in AGP, HABP,
PSNP programs through (joint) capacity
development, field visits, learning events.
• Producers and service providers in adjoining
districts which form part of natural clusters –
milk shed, irrigation schemes and watersheds
through learning events, capacity development
and field visits.

Commodity Value Chain Development – a
continuous process…
A Long VC
G AG - Agribusiness
Fed/Reg
A F - Farmer
G
Short VC
A A A A
G G G G
District
F F F F
D1 D1 D2 D3
IPMS LIVES

What are the possible interventions?
• Technological: eg. seeds, animal genetics, drugs,
fertilizers, pumps, e-readers, computers
• Organizational: eg. organizational forms (public,
private, individual, cooperative, government, PLCs)
• Institutional: eg. rules & regulations, behavior, linkages

Capacity Development
Strengthening capacity public sector staff through
MSc/BSc education
In service training based on TOT/BDS approach: regional –
zone/district (eg)
 Rapid value chain assessment for potential interventions -teams
 Participatory market oriented extension – extension staff
 Gender mainstreaming – extension staff
 Knowledge management – extension staff
 Results based monitoring – specialist staff
 Irrigation technologies – specialist staff
 Irrigated crop value chain development – specialist staff
 Livestock value chain development – specialist staff

Knowledge Management
Federal level
 Strengthening EAP
 National learning events/conferences
 Video production
 e-extension
Regional/zonal/District level
 Knowledge center development
 Learning events/conferences/workshops
 Study tours
 Exhibitions
 Field days
 New IT technologies

Research LIVES
Rapid assessment of value chains and
public support services
Value chain interventions on supply/production Knowledge Mngt and
of inputs, production/processing/marketing of capacity development
outputs interventions
Learning Learning
Diagnosis Action Impact
RESEARCH/STUDIES

Promotion for scaling up
• Facilitate project visits by key policy makers and donors
• Participation in government/non- government national, regional
learning platforms, conferences and workshops
• Use of mass media
• Publications
• Newsletters
• Promotional materials
• Leveraging new investment into value chain development.

Cross-cutting Issues
In both livestock and irrigated agriculture
– Gender
– Environment

Project Management
• Coordinating Team – (MoA, EIAR, LIVES, IWMI)
• Steering Committee – (MoA, MoWE, EIAR, BoA, BoWE, LA, LIVES, IWMI,
CIDA)
• Regional Project Implementation Committee (RPIC)
• Project staffing – HQ, Regional, Zonal
• Counterpart staff at Federal, Regional and Zonal level
• Project team meetings
• Project Advisory committee meetings
• Project technical committee meetings

We can’t do it alone…Partnership is key

Major Partners
MoA
MoWE EIAR
BoWE RARIs
Livestock Univ
Agencies LIVES
NGOs CGIAR
Dev’t
Projects Farmers, Private CIDA
Coops, CBOs Sector

Thank You!
www.lives-ethiopia.org