Constraints to supply of high quality feed to smallholder livestock...

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Presentation by Alan Duncan and Bruno Gerard (ILRI) to the Ethiopian Fodder Roundtable on Effective Delivery of Input Serv...

Why am I giving this talk? <ul><li>Because no-one else would! </li></ul><ul><li>This alone is evidence that livestock feed...

Constraint 1 <ul><li>Food security </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Small farms </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>87.4 % of rural househ...

Constraint 2 <ul><li>Chronic shortage of biomass </li></ul>

Free grazing culture

Need for traction

<ul><ul><li>These all lead to very little biomass per animal </li></ul></ul>

Relative prices of biomass vs concentrate feeds <ul><li>Biomass sources such as crop residues have high market price compa...

Constraint 3 <ul><li>Dominance of arable production </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Lots of feed going into draught animals </li></u...

Constraint 4 <ul><li>Feed is an intermediate commodity </li></ul><ul><li>Forage markets are nascent </li></ul><ul><li>Fora...

Constraint 5 <ul><li>Private sector weakness </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Dominance of public sector </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>D...

Constraint 6 <ul><li>Extension </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Good coverage but sectoral structure </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Packa...

Constraint 7 <ul><li>Land tenure </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Reluctance to invest in perennial forage crops and fodder trees whe...

The way ahead <ul><li>Things are changing </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Dwindling grazing resources forcing other feed sources to ...

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