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Category Archives: Engagement
CIAT / East Africa / Engagement / ILRI / Livestock / Pigs / Uganda / Value Chains
CRP3.7 continues its process of engagement with the Ugandan smallholder pig value chain
As CRP3.7 ‘More meat, milk, and fish by and for the poor’ gets closer to final approval by the CGIAR Consortium, ILRI and CIAT have continued the process of engagement for one of the selected value chains: smallholder pig production in Uganda. Together with representatives from the European Commission (EC) and the International Fund for … Continue reading
Aquaculture / CGIAR / Engagement / Fish / Livestock
Review question 3: Should poultry be a priority value chain for the CGIAR Livestock and Fish research program?
Please give us your feedback in the space below The Issue The proposed CGIAR Livestock-Fish research program will focus all of its initial efforts on developing eight pro-poor value chains in seven countries: aquaculture (Uganda); dairying (Tanzania, India); pigs (Uganda, Vietnam); dual dairy-beef (Nicaragua); and goats/sheep (Mali, Ethiopia). These were identified as commodities holding particular … Continue reading
Engagement / Fish / Livestock
Review question 2: How best to partner with the private sector in pro-poor livestock and fish value chain development?
Please give us your feedback in the space below In our livestock fish proposal, we highlight our intention to “foster partnerships that harness the respective strengths of research and development partners, including the private sector” (p. iv). This is because, as we note, “increasingly, opportunities are being created to partner with the private sector, tapping … Continue reading
CGIAR / Engagement / Fish / Livestock
Review question 1: Will livestock and fish production ‘by the poor’ really contribute to nutrition ‘for the poor’?
Please give us your feedback in the space below While designing the Livestock-Fish proposal, our working hypothesis has been that small-scale livestock and aquaculture systems are an important source of the limited amounts of animal-source foods (meat, dairy products, eggs) that currently figure in the diets of the poor, and that by increasing productivity and … Continue reading
CGIAR / Engagement / Fish / Livestock / Research
CGIAR livestock-fish research program – audio and video
In August 2010, we organized a face to face meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss the proposed livestock-fish research program of the CGIAR. Around the meeting we interviewed some of the participants on video and audio: Listen to the podcasts or views the videos: Value chain approach promises aquaculture development in Uganda (video) CGIAR Livestock … Continue reading
CGIAR / Engagement / Fish / Livestock
Simplice Nouala on the livestock-fish research proposal
In mid-September, we submitted the ‘livestock-fish’ research proposal to the CGIAR. Before submitting the proposal, we had asked Simplice Nouala from AU-IBAR to provide his comments: — Commenting on reasons that past attempts to intensify small-scale livestock production systems in developing countries can fail, Nouala argued that the discussion “should be expanded to the prevailing … Continue reading
CGIAR / Engagement / Fish / Livestock
Joachim Otte on the livestock fish research proposal
In mid-September, we submitted the ‘livestock-fish’ research proposal to the CGIAR. Before submitting the proposal, we had asked FAO’s Joachim Otte to provide a last review. Here are his comments: — Thanks for sharing the MP3.7 proposal. I think that overall the proposal could make a stronger case under ‘what’s new’ about the program in … Continue reading
CGIAR / Engagement / Fish / Livestock / Research
Philippe Lecomte on the livestock fish research proposal
Earlier this month, we submitted the ‘livestock-fish’ research proposal to the CGIAR. CIRAD’s Philippe Lecomte kindly accepted to review the near-final version of the proposal before it was submitted. Here are his comments: — The team has made a colossal job and very interesting proposal for this MP. Congratulations for the work done. It is … Continue reading
CGIAR / Engagement / Fish / Livestock
Cees de Haan on the livestock fish research proposal
Earlier this month, we submitted the ‘livestock-fish’ research proposal to the CGIAR. We greatly benefited from comments on the draft by several people, including Cees de Haan of the World Bank. We share his comments below as we believe they provide a valuable commentary on the overall proposal as well as some of the specific … Continue reading
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish 