Fodder interventions as a stimulus to enhancing broad‐scale
innovation in livestock systems through stakeholder platforms
Experiences in Ada’a woreda, Ethiopia
Background Key events Stakeholder
Jun
•Previous project‐led configuration
Fodder
approaches to feed/fodder
Jul
options
development have had limited identified
FAP NARS
impact and sustainability
Aug
•A new paradigm for rural
development focuses on IPMS
Ministry
Sep
(extension)
enhancing innovation capacity
Technical innovation
Seed
sourced
by stakeholder‐driven diagnosis
and action
Oct
•Stakeholder platforms are a
useful mechanism for enhancing 44 farmers
Nov
plant on Land o Lakes
both technical and own fields Eden Field
Seeds
organizational innovation
Dec
Methods Farmers
FAP NARS
Jan
•Action research – process of Dairy co‐op
formed
designing, implementing, Ethiopian
Meat & Dairy
Feb
reflecting and redesigning Tech Inst. Ministry
approaches IPMS
Organisational innovation
(extension)
•Establishment of stakeholder
Mar
X‐bred cows
platforms – joint action plans sourced
FAP
and implementation
Apr
•Documentation of innovation
processes
May
Farmers
Preliminary findings purchase
seed
Crop Grow
•Appropriate technology (e.g. plc
Jun
planted fodder) introduced
60 farmers
Land o Lakes
through existing stakeholders is plant on
Eden Field
own fields
useful catalyst for raising and Seeds
Jul
addressing broader system
constraints Farmers
FAP
Aug
NARS
Milk transport Ministry
•Working with stakeholder issues voiced (extension)
platforms means technological
Sep
focus soon gives way to
FAP
organizational issues Milk transport IPMS
Ministry
EMDTI
Oct
negotiations (extension)
•Facilitating stakeholder ongoing
platforms is time‐consuming Godino Dairy
Ada’a Dairy
and monitoring change is not Co‐op
Co‐op
trivial.
The Fodder Adoption Project is funded by IFAD (Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increasing use of fodder; IFAD TAG 853) and works in
collaboration with the Improving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers Project (IPMS); Contact Alan Duncan (a.duncan@cgiar.org)