CGIAR Livestock and Fish Research Program: Potential
Synergies with LIVES project in Ethiopia
Barbra Rischkowsky, ICARDA
LIVES Research Planning Workshop
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26-28 March 2013

Program Goal
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor
 To sustainably increase the productivity of small-
scale livestock and fish systems
 To increase the availability and affordability of
animal-source foods for poor consumers and,
 To reduce poverty through greater participation
by the poor along the whole value chains for
animal-source foods.

The approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact
We propose an integrated value-chain approach for focused impact . . .
R4D integrated to transform selected value chains
for selected commodities in selected countries.
Inputs & Services Production Processing Marketing Consumers
Value chain development team + research partners

Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact
. . . combined with strategic cross-cutting platforms for scaling out.
R4D integrated to transform selected value chains
for selected commodities in selected countries.
Consumers
Major intervention with development partners
Value chain development team + research partners
Strategic Cross-cutting Platforms
• Technology Generation
• Market Innovation
• Targeting & Impact
INTERVENTIONS TO GLOBAL RESEARCH
SCALE OUT REGIONALLY PUBLIC GOODS

Delivering Livestock + Fish
Structure: Integrated research themes
Targeting, Gender, Impact assessment
Value chain development
Technology
Development:
− Genetics Consumers
− Feeds
− Health Commodity X in Country Y
Cross-cutting: M&E, communications, capacity building

FOCUS: 9 Target Value Chains in 8 countries
SHEEP & GOATS
AQUACULTURE
PIGS
DAIRY

Criteria and rationale for choosing the
commodities and countries
 Growth and market opportunity
• Huge and increasing demand for the commodity
• High potential to raise productivity and off-take rate in
smallholder flocks
 Pro-poor potential
• High number of poor smallholders and value chain actors
involved in production
• Good income opportunity for women headed households
 Researchable supply constraints
• Shortage and fluctuation of feed supply
• Poor animal hygiene and diseases (high lamb/kid mortality)
• Lack of sustainable organizational structures for breeder and
producer groups
• Poor market infrastructure and institutional arrangements

Expected outputs from VCD in L&F
 Framework for situational analysis of the respective sectors
 Generic tools for rapid and in-depth VCA developed and
tested for 3 commodities (dairy cattle, small ruminants and
pigs)
 Tools for rapid integrated assessment of food safety and
nutrition (in collaboration with CRP 4 Animal Health and Nutrition)
 Strategies for partnership development and involvement –
innovation systems/platforms
 Strategies for outscaling developed (based on
partnerships, targeting and impact assessment)

Expected outputs from Technology Development
 Open access databases (NIRS equations, feeds, successes
and failures in technology development, AnGR)
 Tools for rapid assessment of feeding systems and feed
intervention screening (FEAST and TechFit)
 Diagnostic toolkit for animal diseases
 Demand-driven solutions for feeding, breeding and animal
health constraints identified in the VCs
 Vaccine development (PPR success story)
 Insights in genetics of adaptation (long-term)

Tanzania Dairy Cattle VC outputs in 2012
 Formation of the Dairy Development Forum
 an informal mechanism for vertical coordination of field activities and
co-creating solutions at national and milk-shed levels
 membership across all key public and private sector players in the
dairy sector.
 Situational analysis report establishing a baseline for the
sector
 Tools developed to identify potential interventions for improved
dairy value chain performance
 Review of past successes and failures in dairy development
interventions
 Potential interventions best bets for improved VC performance

Ethiopia Sheep and goat VC outputs
 Toolkit for rapid VCA for sheep and goat in Ethiopia
 By mid April 2013 for seven sheep and goat VC sites:
Site descriptions, rapid VCA reports, draft intervention plans
 Cross-cutting research issues identified and prioritized
 Process of partnership development with different
stakeholders
 Pilot breeding programs for smallholders developed and
implemented
 Feeding system assessments and feed intervention
screening tested at two sites

Selected sheep and goat VC sites in Ethiopia
# VCs District Sites/villages/ Region Partner
communities projects
Highlands
1 Sheep 1 Atsbi 1. Habes Tigray LIVES
2. Golgol na’ele
2 Sheep 2 Doyogena 1. Serea SNNP SARI
2. Bkafa funds
3 Sheep 3 Menz/Molale 1. Molale Amhara
Mehal Meda 2. Mehal Meda
4 Sheep 4 Horro/Shambu 1. Gitlo Oromia
2. Lakku Iggu
5 Goat 1 Abergelle 1. Neuraq town, Amhara BecaHub
Saka/Sazeba
2. Felegehiwot Tigray
Lowlands
6 Goat 2 Yabello 1. Eleweya Oromia
2. Darito
7 Goat/ Shinelle 1. Gad Somali PCDP
Sheep 2. Degah Jebis

Identified constraints in Atsbi sheep
 Lack of awareness and skills on improved sheep production
practices
 Feed shortage in quality and quantity and lack of planting material
and forage seeds
 Unidentified and high incidence of disease and parasites
 Shortage of Animal health service delivery (drug supply, service
availability, skills)
 Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers
(missing linkage among producers and with other actors)
 Seasonality of supply of sheep
 Lack of supply of quality sheep: low dressing percentage,
red offal often condemned due to disease and parasites

Expectations from LIVES (synergies)
 Joint research and intervention plans for shared sites (Atsbi
sheep VC)
 Joint learning across sites for sheep and goat value chains in
Ethiopia and dairy cattle VC across countries (including IPMS
results)
 Outscaling of successful interventions developed by L & F
 Joint development of technical training courses related to action
research
 Dialogue on pathways to impact
 Joint Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
 Joint development of Communication strategies

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org
CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a
food secure future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to
increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable
ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the
developing world.