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CGIAR Livestock and Fish Research Program: Potential synergies with LIVES project in Ethiopia
1. CGIAR Livestock and Fish Research Program: Potential
Synergies with LIVES project in Ethiopia
Barbra Rischkowsky, ICARDA
LIVES Research Planning Workshop
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26-28 March 2013
2. Program Goal
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor
To sustainably increase the productivity of small-
scale livestock and fish systems
To increase the availability and affordability of
animal-source foods for poor consumers and,
To reduce poverty through greater participation
by the poor along the whole value chains for
animal-source foods.
3. The approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact
We propose an integrated value-chain approach for focused impact . . .
R4D integrated to transform selected value chains
for selected commodities in selected countries.
Inputs & Services Production Processing Marketing Consumers
Value chain development team + research partners
4. Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact
. . . combined with strategic cross-cutting platforms for scaling out.
R4D integrated to transform selected value chains
for selected commodities in selected countries.
Consumers
Major intervention with development partners
Value chain development team + research partners
Strategic Cross-cutting Platforms
• Technology Generation
• Market Innovation
• Targeting & Impact
INTERVENTIONS TO GLOBAL RESEARCH
SCALE OUT REGIONALLY PUBLIC GOODS
5. Delivering Livestock + Fish
Structure: Integrated research themes
Targeting, Gender, Impact assessment
Value chain development
Technology
Development:
− Genetics Consumers
− Feeds
− Health Commodity X in Country Y
Cross-cutting: M&E, communications, capacity building
6. FOCUS: 9 Target Value Chains in 8 countries
SHEEP & GOATS
AQUACULTURE
PIGS
DAIRY
7. Criteria and rationale for choosing the
commodities and countries
Growth and market opportunity
• Huge and increasing demand for the commodity
• High potential to raise productivity and off-take rate in
smallholder flocks
Pro-poor potential
• High number of poor smallholders and value chain actors
involved in production
• Good income opportunity for women headed households
Researchable supply constraints
• Shortage and fluctuation of feed supply
• Poor animal hygiene and diseases (high lamb/kid mortality)
• Lack of sustainable organizational structures for breeder and
producer groups
• Poor market infrastructure and institutional arrangements
8. Expected outputs from VCD in L&F
Framework for situational analysis of the respective sectors
Generic tools for rapid and in-depth VCA developed and
tested for 3 commodities (dairy cattle, small ruminants and
pigs)
Tools for rapid integrated assessment of food safety and
nutrition (in collaboration with CRP 4 Animal Health and Nutrition)
Strategies for partnership development and involvement –
innovation systems/platforms
Strategies for outscaling developed (based on
partnerships, targeting and impact assessment)
9. Expected outputs from Technology Development
Open access databases (NIRS equations, feeds, successes
and failures in technology development, AnGR)
Tools for rapid assessment of feeding systems and feed
intervention screening (FEAST and TechFit)
Diagnostic toolkit for animal diseases
Demand-driven solutions for feeding, breeding and animal
health constraints identified in the VCs
Vaccine development (PPR success story)
Insights in genetics of adaptation (long-term)
10. Tanzania Dairy Cattle VC outputs in 2012
Formation of the Dairy Development Forum
an informal mechanism for vertical coordination of field activities and
co-creating solutions at national and milk-shed levels
membership across all key public and private sector players in the
dairy sector.
Situational analysis report establishing a baseline for the
sector
Tools developed to identify potential interventions for improved
dairy value chain performance
Review of past successes and failures in dairy development
interventions
Potential interventions best bets for improved VC performance
11. Ethiopia Sheep and goat VC outputs
Toolkit for rapid VCA for sheep and goat in Ethiopia
By mid April 2013 for seven sheep and goat VC sites:
Site descriptions, rapid VCA reports, draft intervention plans
Cross-cutting research issues identified and prioritized
Process of partnership development with different
stakeholders
Pilot breeding programs for smallholders developed and
implemented
Feeding system assessments and feed intervention
screening tested at two sites
13. Identified constraints in Atsbi sheep
Lack of awareness and skills on improved sheep production
practices
Feed shortage in quality and quantity and lack of planting material
and forage seeds
Unidentified and high incidence of disease and parasites
Shortage of Animal health service delivery (drug supply, service
availability, skills)
Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers
(missing linkage among producers and with other actors)
Seasonality of supply of sheep
Lack of supply of quality sheep: low dressing percentage,
red offal often condemned due to disease and parasites
14. Expectations from LIVES (synergies)
Joint research and intervention plans for shared sites (Atsbi
sheep VC)
Joint learning across sites for sheep and goat value chains in
Ethiopia and dairy cattle VC across countries (including IPMS
results)
Outscaling of successful interventions developed by L & F
Joint development of technical training courses related to action
research
Dialogue on pathways to impact
Joint Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Joint development of Communication strategies
15. CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org
CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a
food secure future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to
increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable
ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the
developing world.
Hinweis der Redaktion
The program will have as its centre three Research Themes.The three Research Themes are:1. Improved technologies to sustainably increase productivity and efficiency of livestock and fishproduction2. Development strategies for pro‐poor, gender‐equitable value chains for livestock and fish products3. Targeting, gender and impact assessment