Fodder Adoption and Innovation Projects (FAP and FIP)

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Fodder Adoption and Innovation Projects (FAP and FIP) Ranjitha Puskur and Alan Duncan International Livestock Research In...

Enhancing livelihoods of livestock dependant poor people through increasing use of fodder FAP IFAD CIAT, ICARDA, ILRI Ethi...

FIP Phase-I (2003-2006) <ul><li>Approach - Identification and dissemination of improved varieties of fodder </li></ul><ul...

Aims of the Projects <ul><li>FAP - Strengthening capacity of poor livestock keepers to select and adopt fodder options an...

Emphases in IS thinking <ul><li>Actors </li></ul><ul><li>Linkages </li></ul><ul><li>Habits and practices </li></ul><ul><li...

A new paradigm in agricultural development? What’s the old paradigm?

Adoption of new technologies by smallholders is generally low New technologies developed by researchers do not find their ...

Historical approaches to fodder development Research Extension Farmer Linear thinking

Value chain and innovation systems Urban wholesaler Rural Farmer Collector Urban dairy producer Urban consumer Sorghum Ru...

Embedding research and extension in a wider system Research Extension

What does it mean in practice? Focus on promising technologies (labour, economics, demand-driven) Establishment of stak...

Innovation processes in Ada’a Ethiopia Seed sourced 44 farmers plant on own fields X-bred cows sourced Farmers purchas...

Fodder Innovation Project (FIP)

Phase-II (2007-2009) <ul><li>Approach/Research Design: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Explore ways of strengthening fodder innovati...

Fodder Innovation Capacity <ul><li>We argue that </li></ul><ul><li>Fodder innovation capacity will be strengthened when...

FIP2 <ul><li>Worked with a range of KPOs </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Government (RAGACOVAS – a traditional veterinary universit...

Project components <ul><li>Development of conceptual framework and research design </li></ul><ul><li>Landscaping exercise ...

Project components-cont’d <ul><li>Development and implementation of rolling action plans </li></ul><ul><li>Development of ...

Immediate outcomes <ul><li>Farm level outcomes </li></ul><ul><li>Some changes in farm and livestock feeding practices (J...

Immediate outcomes <ul><li>System level behavioural changes </li></ul><ul><li>Unusual partnerships- Goat producer and goa...

Some lessons.. <ul><li>A ppropriate technology (e.g. planted fodder) introduced through existing stakeholders is useful c...

Some lessons.. <ul><li>F acilitating stakeholder platforms is time-consuming and monitoring change is not trivial. </l...

Some lessons.. <ul><li>Implications for how R4D projects are designed and managed – both for research managers and donors....

Some lessons.. <ul><li>Engaging policy actors from the beginning helps in finding windows for influence and ownership f...

FIP-FAP Meta analysis Why and how? <ul><li>To distil lessons on effective ways of developing systems and capabilities to i...

Objectives <ul><li>compare and contrast different approaches and contexts that impinge on innovation network formation and...

Where do we go from here…. <ul><li>Networks have formed and are beginning to perform.. </li></ul><ul><li>Sites set up to b...

ILRI is creating and integrating knowledge to enable diverse partners to find innovative solutions to make livestock a su...

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