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Modeling environmental impacts of forage technologies in crop-livestock systems in Tanzania

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The CIAT-led project ‘Sustainable Intensification of Crop-livestock Systems through Improved Forages’, funded by the USAID Linkage program with the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to assess environmental impacts of tropical forage technologies. Continue reading →

Africa / Animal Feeding / East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / ICARDA / ILRI / LIVESTOCK-FISH / 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 →