Feed Investment Study:
Summary
Shirley Tarawali
Workshop on Feed Technology Screening and Prioritisation, Dehra Dun,
India, 19-22 September 2011 1

Key issues
 Past feed research “supply focused”
 Feed in VC context – different approach:
– Demand for livestock commodity
• Feed as ONE technology element
• Technology as ONE VC element
 Investments impacting on feed important:
– Productivity – market engagement
– Environment (trade-offs)
– Equity
– Economics (not just producers)
 Public and private sector dimensions
– Private: producers, providers, individuals, corporate
– Public: from research/extension ......to.....enabling
environment; regulatory
 Complex
– Simplify?
– Systematic? 2

Consider...
Framework to classify feed dimensions
Some findings
Broader issues that may impact
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Framework
Feed source Feed type
Own farm
Natural grazing
Planted pastures
Community Other planted forages
Crop residues
Market Crop by products
Other by products
Grains
Policy Roots and tubers
Mineral etc supplements
Balanced concentrates
Opportunities to increase feed:
Produce more --- Utilize better --- Import
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This framework:
 Seems to work  Tweaking!
 Allows for technology  Consider different
and non dimensions to “levels”
be articulated  Limited prioritisation
 Considers dynamic  Limitations of “expert”
 Apply in context of consultation – non
specific commodity VC quantitative
 Allowed some initial  Articulation of
quantitative evaluation diversity?
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“intensification” Source of feed (%DM)
Natural grazing
Planted pastures
Planted forages
Crop residues
Crop by-products
Other by-products
Grains
Roots & tubers
Mineral/vit suppl
2010 Balanced concentrates
2030
Own farm
Community
Market
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“intensification” Source of feed (%DM)
Natural grazing
Planted pastures
Planted forages
Crop residues
Crop by-products
Other by-products
Grains
Roots & tubers
Mineral/vit suppl
2010 Balanced concentrates
2030
Own farm
Community
Market
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Produce more Utilize better Import
Knowledge and
Policies Technologies
service provision
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Produce more Utilize better Import
•Institutionalise multi •Knowledge services: •Improve marketing
dimensional crop improvement •Sourcing, balancing, targeting •Provision of knowledge, market
•Improve access to HY forages rations info, credit
and crops •Processing of feeds •Incentives for small scale
•Evaluate price-policy issues •Governance of feed quality; entrepreneurs
•Improve water productivity water
•Access to service delivery
Knowledge and
Policies Technologies
service provision
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Produce more Utilize better Import
Knowledge and
Policies Technologies
service provision
• Infrastructure • Developing BDS: • Farm
• Community • Knowledge management
based NRM • Inputs • Crop husbandry
• Support BDS • Credit • Food-feed crops
• PP consortia for • Forages
food-feed crops • Water
• Governance of harvesting
NR • Processing
• (PES) • Feed storage
• Balanced rations 10

Policies
Knowledge and
Technologies
service provision
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In general.....
 Investment in infrastructure
 Combinations of public and private investments
– Facilitation of adoption/mkt participation
• Reduced transaction costs – improved access to services and information –
smallholders and other market agents
 Technologies
– Often private (individual)
– Bundle with other technologies
– Intersection of policies and institutions
 Increasing animal numbers – attractive for private investment BUT
negative environment:
– Private investment in better feeding plus incentives to reduce transaction
costs (access to feeds, participation in product markets)
 BDS – multiple dimensions
 Innovation system approaches
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To consider....
 Different levels.... From farm through
community, local, national policies and institutions
provide important context
 Seasonality?
 Are there some “must haves”?
– Context – eg specific growing livestock commodity value
chain
– Information to guide options?
• “Level” of intensification.... Dynamic?
• Institutional “diagnosis”
• Market engagement
• .....etc
 Current and potential feed resources
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