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Targeting Livestock and Fish work on small ruminant value chains in Ethiopia – Emerging ‘best bets’

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Last week, Ethiopian partners in the program joined the last of three workshops to take stock of the results of small ruminant value chain assessments in 8 sites. Together, 67 individuals from the sites and other partners joined the workshops. These came from research, academic, NGO, private companies, as well as international research organizations. This … Continue reading »

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Ethiopia small ruminant value chain assessment: First results assessed

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Stakeholder discussions and planning for the Livestock and Fish small ruminant value chain development project began in mid-2012. By November, sites were selected and teams were trained to carry out rapid value chain assessments in the project’s 7 research sites (including for the safe food fair food project). Field implementation of the rapid value chain … Continue reading »

Africa / Animal Breeding / CRP37 / East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / Genetics / Goats / ICARDA / ILRI / Livestock / Livestock-Fish / Small Ruminants

Characterizing goat genetic resources in Ethiopia

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On 20 and 21 December 2012, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) ran a training course for national partners and collaborators on methods and approaches for phenotypic characterization of animal genetic resources. “For genetic resources to contribute to food security goals, we need … Continue reading »

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Livestock and fish experiences in value chain development shared at conference

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Rapid urbanization, growing middle classes, changes in dietary patterns, and population growth have spurred a rising demand for livestock and fish products in global markets and developing countries. This creates an opportunity for demand-led development interventions that have the potential to benefit the 1 billion people whose livelihoods directly or indirectly depend on livestock, and … Continue reading »

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Ethiopia value chain sites selected; rapid value chain assessment initiated

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Earlier this year the Ethiopia team led by ICARDA set out plans for the program to transform sheep and goat value chains in the country. Since July, the team has engaged with national partners and stakeholders to identify research sites and partners. And today, the first of two planned training workshops on tools for the … Continue reading »

Africa / Animal Feeding / CRP37 / East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / ICARDA / ILRI / Sheep

Intensifying sheep production – using sheep fattening as a driver of change

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Earlier this year, ILRI and ICARDA joined national partners in two ‘feed assessment’ projects in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Livestock Feeds project (funded by ACIAR) and the ‘QuickFeed‘ early win project of the Africa RISING program both set out to  test a suite of rapid diagnosis tools to identify promising feed and fodder interventions. At the … Continue reading »

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Ethiopia livestock feeds project tests tools to guide feed interventions

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On May 28-29, 2012 the Ethiopian Livestock Feeds Project held a synthesis workshop at ILRI in Addis Ababa. The project team, including the core partners from the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research and the Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute, had been working together to refine various tools including FEAST, Techfit and a simple value chain … Continue reading »

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Livestock and irrigation value chains for Ethiopian smallholders (LIVES) holds planning meeting

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Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) one of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI ) led projects, part of the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research project, held an implementation planning workshop on July 11-12, 2012. It brought together most project partners to revise and verify regional and zonal data collected for the four … Continue reading »

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Stakeholders discuss directions for Livestock and Fish value chain research in Ethiopia

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On Friday 6  July 2012, we convened a ‘Small Ruminant Value Chain Consultative Meeting’ in Ethiopia. Led by scientists from the  International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas and the International Livestock Research Institute, we aimed to arrive at a common understanding of the goals, objectives and implementation approach of the program, discuss … Continue reading »

Africa / Animal Feeding / CGIAR / Crop-Livestock / CRP37 / East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / Feeds / ILRI / Livestock-Fish

Devising successful feed interventions in Ethiopia – ILRI project identifies promising tools

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Last week, the International Livestock Research Institute convened a synthesis workshop of the ‘fodder and feed in livestock value chains in Ethiopia’ project. Funded by the the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), this short project aimed to develop and refine tools for the rapid assessment of feed resources – that will allow effective … Continue reading »