Presentation by Ficarelli, P.P.; Samaddar, A.; Padmakumar, V.; Sharbendu Benerjee, S. Presentation to an ILRI- IBM Informal meeting, New Delhi, India, 31 August 2010

1. Digitally- enabled Information & Service Platforms for
Pro-poor Agro-Livestock Value Chains
National Workshop on Agribusiness Knowledge Exchange
Hyderabad, NAARM 22-24 April 2010
ILRI- IBM Informal meeting
IBM Research Labs Vasant Kunji ND
31 August 2010
By: ILRI - Pier Paolo Ficarelli (ILRI KM ), Arindam Samaddar (ILRI-CSISA), V. Padmakumar (ILRI-EKSL), Sharbendu Benerjee (CABI-ASIA)

2. Small holding mixed farms represents largest portion of India food
producing unit.
Smallholders’ farm SUSTAINABLE intensification will be
crucial to ensure national food supply, environmental
services and poverty reduction
Challenges
 Organizational capacity
 Access to information and services (production & markets)
 Collapse of Agricultural Extension Services
 Information asymmetry in Agro-Value Chains
VISION for ICT4D in Agro-Livestock value chains:
Information & Service linkages for ALL the rural unconnected

3. International Livestock Research Institute is part of the CGIAR
an International Consortium for Agricultural Research
www.cgiar.org
Head Office: Nairobi (Addis Abeba, affiliated centre)
Global mandate: Pro-poor livestock development research
ILRI Asia (India)
 Livestock value chains Research dairy, pigs & goats)
 Fodder and Feed
 Animal and Public Health
 Conservation of animal genetic resources
 Capacity building in pro-poor livestock development
 Policy advice
Funding: UN, EU, BMGF, BMZ/GTZ, DFID etc.
Partners in India: SRTT, ICAR, BAIF, BASIX, NDDB

4. imGoaT
Small ruminant value chains for reducing poverty and increasing
food security in dry-land areas of India and Mozambique

5. imGoaT
Goal:
To increase incomes and food security in a sustainable manner by enhancing pro-poor small
ruminant value chains in India and Mozambique
Objectives:
1. to pilot sustainable and replicable organizational and technical models to strengthen goat value
chains in India and Mozambique that increase incomes, reduce vulnerability and enhance
welfare amongst marginalized groups, including women
2. to document, communicate and promote appropriate evidence-based model(s) for sustainable,
pro-poor goat value chains
Leading Organinsation:
ILRI
Partners:
CARE international (Mozambique) BAIF, BASIX (India)
Donors:
EU-IFAD
Project Duration:
Oct. 2010-2013

6. V. Padmakumar - ILRI Senior Project Manager

7. TATA-ILRI Partnership Programme
Uttarakhand
Jharkhand
Nagaland, Mizoram,
Arunachal
Himmotthan
CInI
NEI
Dairying
Goatery
Piggery
Tata Trusts’
Livestock-based livelihood
programmes
1. Co-creation of knowledge
CREATIONider
Supportive Role of ILRI
Co-create need based Knowledge
3. Capacity Strengthening
Strengthen partner capacities
(including technical and soft skills)
4. Policy Facilitation
Facilitate all-inclusive pro-poor policy
dialogue
ELKS
Supportive Role of ILRI
2. Knowledge sharing
Sharing existing and /or co-created
knowledge to partners

8. Reduction of:
•Poverty, hunger
•Env. degradation
Adaptive research on dual purpose
pigeon pea in Uttarakhand
1. Farmer –led variety trials
comparing local and
improved pigeon pea
varieties
2. Promotion of large scale
seed production by
farmers for local seed
provision
Knowledge co-creation

9. NORTH
EAST
JKD
UKD
Other Knowledge Sharing Platforms
(National, Regional & International)
Central KM
Platform
Knowledge Sharing and Cooperation Approach
Action-research at
village level
NING as social
media and digital
repository of project
information
Action-research at
village level
Action-research at
village level

10. Raising Livestock Productivity through
Improved Feeding as part of the CSISA
Project Initiative for South Asia
Arindam Samaddar, CSISA/ILRI Senior Researcher

11. Cereal System Initiative South Asia (CSISA)
Goal:
To decrease hunger and malnutrition and to increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in
South Asia through the accelerated development and inclusive deployment of new cereal varieties, sustainable
management technologies, and policies.
Objectives:
1. Widespread delivery and adaptation of production and post-harvest technologies to increase cereal production and raise
incomes.
2. Crop and resource management practices for sustainable future cereal-based systems.
3. High-yielding, stress-tolerant, and disease- and insect-resistant rice, wheat and maize varieties and hybrids for current and
future cereal and mixed crop-livestock systems.
4. Technology targeting and improved policies for inclusive agricultural growth.
5. Creating a new generation of scientists and professional agronomists for cereal systems research and management.
6. Project management, communication and impact assessment
Leading Organinsation:
IRRI, Philippines
Donors:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

12. Livestock in the cereal farming systems
 Rice and wheat are the basis of mixed irrigated systems in South Asia
 Strong interactions in the systems between cereal crops and livestock,
straws for feeding and for soils
 Livestock is important contributions to rural livelihoods, especially for
resource poor farmers and women

13. CSISA Livestock Component Objectives
 Analysis of straw & fodder quality of rice, wheat & maize
cultivars and feedback of results to crop breeders
 Assessment of opportunities for more efficient livestock
integration in cereal systems:
• Feeding strategies development and dissemination
• Farmer (e)valuation of fodder/straw of different cereal
cultivars
• Comparison of fodder quality traits- in vitro, in vivo and on-
farm

14. Mobile Technology Enabled Agro-advisory
Brining Science @ Farm Gate through Technology
Sharbendu Banerjee - Project & Business Development Manager-CABI South Asia India.

15. CABI is an UK-based intergovernmental not- for- profit research and
development organisation owned by 44 countries and having India as
a major stakeholder www.cabi.org
Head Office: Wallingford (U.K.), 16 offices world-wide
Global mandate: Providing information and applying scientific
expertise to solve problems in agriculture and
improve people’ s lives
CABI South-Asia
 Global Plant Clinics (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan Nepal)
 Mobile-enabled Agro-Info Services (IKSL-India)
 Coffee leaf rust resilience ( India & 4 African countries)
 Invasive alien species control (India-U.K.)
Where: 18 States (IKSL), Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu (CLR) North
India (IS & GPC)
CABI has the world’s best digital knowledge repository in agriculture
and bio-science referred by the scientific community

16. CABI Services
 We provide scientific backstopping service to existing agro-advisory Helplines
 We develop contents for dissemination to farmers through digital and print
channels
 We build capacity of the extension service providers though training, information
aggregation and Knowledge Management
 As an international organization, we can establish linkages and collaboration
between national and international agriculture research institutions

17. Our Agro-advisory Model
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18. Thank You for your Attention!