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Priority areas of livestock sector for strengthening food and nutrition secur...ILRI
Presented by Tek B. Gurung and Bimal K. Nirmal at the Workshop on transforming livelihoods in South Asia through sustainable livestock research and development, Kathmandu, Nepal, 13-14 November 2018
Integarted farming is suggested for efficient utilization of resourses by small and marginal farmares to improve their income or economic status in addition to improving the nutrition status of their family. finally improves the livelihood as integration is the best approach for maximum utilisation of resourses.
This Thematic Paper is part of a Toolkit for Project Design (Livestock Thematic Papers: Tools for Project Design) which reflects IFAD’s commitment to developing a sustainable livestock sector in which poor farmers and herders might have higher incomes, and better access to assets, services, technologies and markets.
The paper indents to be a practical tool for development practitioners, project designers and policymakers to define appropriate livestock development interventions. It also provides recommendations on critical issues for rural development and also possible responses and actions to encourage the socio-economic empowerment of poor livestock keepers.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Dairy farmers’ production systems worldwide need to be able to combine profitability with the responsibility of protecting human health, animal health, animal welfare and the environment.Dairy farmers, as the primary producers in the supply chain, should also be given the opportunity to add value to their product by adopting methods of production that satisfy the demands of processors and customers.
This Guide gives individual dairy farmers proactive guidance on how these objectives can be achieved on their farm. The Guide to good dairy farming practice has been written in a practical format for dairy farmers engaged in the production of milk from any dairy species. When adopted, it will support the production and marketing of safe, quality-assured milk and dairy products. The Guide focuses on the relationship between consumer safety and economic, social and environmental management at the farm level.
The Guide contains many individual practices that contribute to good dairy farming
practice, covering the key aspects of animal health, milk hygiene, nutrition, welfare, the
environment and socio-economic management.
These practices have been drawn from best practice guidelines and existing assurance
schemes around the world, and so individual practices will vary in their applicability to various dairying regions. They are not intended to be legally binding and readers are encouraged to select and implement those guidelines that are of relevance to their situation. As such, this Guide aims to provide a genuine framework for dairy farm assurance schemes to be developed globally, giving individual countries and dairy farmers the opportunity to develop schemes that are specific to their needs.
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Presented by Fritz Schneider (Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
This Thematic Paper is part of a Toolkit for Project Design (Livestock Thematic Papers: Tools for Project Design) which reflects IFAD’s commitment to developing a sustainable livestock sector in which poor farmers and herders might have higher incomes, and better access to assets, services, technologies and markets.
The paper indents to be a practical tool for development practitioners, project designers and policymakers to define appropriate livestock development interventions. It also provides recommendations on critical issues for rural development and also possible responses and actions to encourage the socio-economic empowerment of poor livestock keepers.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Dairy farmers’ production systems worldwide need to be able to combine profitability with the responsibility of protecting human health, animal health, animal welfare and the environment.Dairy farmers, as the primary producers in the supply chain, should also be given the opportunity to add value to their product by adopting methods of production that satisfy the demands of processors and customers.
This Guide gives individual dairy farmers proactive guidance on how these objectives can be achieved on their farm. The Guide to good dairy farming practice has been written in a practical format for dairy farmers engaged in the production of milk from any dairy species. When adopted, it will support the production and marketing of safe, quality-assured milk and dairy products. The Guide focuses on the relationship between consumer safety and economic, social and environmental management at the farm level.
The Guide contains many individual practices that contribute to good dairy farming
practice, covering the key aspects of animal health, milk hygiene, nutrition, welfare, the
environment and socio-economic management.
These practices have been drawn from best practice guidelines and existing assurance
schemes around the world, and so individual practices will vary in their applicability to various dairying regions. They are not intended to be legally binding and readers are encouraged to select and implement those guidelines that are of relevance to their situation. As such, this Guide aims to provide a genuine framework for dairy farm assurance schemes to be developed globally, giving individual countries and dairy farmers the opportunity to develop schemes that are specific to their needs.
The roles of livestock in achieving the sustainable development goalsILRI
Presented by Iain A Wright, Deputy Director General-Research (ILRI) at the 25 Anniversary Conference of the Ethiopian Society for Animal Production (ESAP), Haramaya, Ethiopia, 24–26 August 2017
Presented by Muhammad Farooq Tareen at the Workshop on transforming livelihoods in South Asia through sustainable livestock research and development, Kathmandu, Nepal, 13-14 November 2018
Overview of Livestock Contributions to the Sustainable Development GoalsILRI
Presented by Fritz Schneider (Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
Grain legume crop-livestock integration in Ethiopian smallholder systems: The...ILRI
Poster prepared by Mesfin Dejene (University of Queensland) for the ILRI-N2Africa Third Annual Partners’ Review and Planning Workshop, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 27-29 January 2016
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Dairy Production System in Lowland Areas of Gambella, EthiopiaAI Publications
The objective of this study was to identify and assessing the different types of dairy cattle production systems, management practices, marketing and its constraints that exist in the Itang district. A total of 120 households were selected from four kebeles using simple random selection method after identifying the dairy owner from the community using purposive sampling method. Descriptive statistics, one way ANOVA, chi-square and ranking were analysed using SPSS statistical package. The majority of producers (63.3%) in the pastoral system produced milk for home consumption, while the majority of mixed crop–livestock producers (40.0%) produced milk for selling purpose. In the mixed crop–livestock system, mostly cereal crop based grazing is the major feed resource but these feed resources were managed in a traditional ways. Almost all respondents in the mixed crop-livestock system (96.5%) and pastoral system (100%) did not supplement their lactating cow with additional feeds. More than 400 cattle herds from 2-3 villages graze together between 10 am to 4 pm daily. The majority of households (68.3%) in the mixed crop–livestock system kept their cattle separately in barn, while other 8.3% of the households did the same in pastoral areas. Constraints for dairy development in the area are diseased condition, thieves, lack of veterinary services, lack of credit, feed and feeding and poor extension services. It can be concluded dairy cattle production in the mixed crop-livestock system was economical and based on mixed agriculture (crops plus livestock) with some fishing activity, mining and wild food collection.
Livestock research contributions to the Sustainable Development GoalsILRI
Presented by Hung Nguyen-Viet at a workshop on applications of One Health/ecohealth approach towards sustainable livestock production in Southeast Asia, Los Baños, Laguna, the Philippines, 25 October 2018.
Feed and forage development and scaling in the Ethiopian highlands africa-rising
Poster prepared by Aberra Adie, Melkamu Bezabih, Kindu Mekonnen and Peter Thorne for the Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Project Review and Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, 21–22 May 2019
Analysis of Value Chain of Cow Milk: The Case of Itang Special Woreda, Gambel...AI Publications
Ethiopia has a long and rich history of dairy farming, which was mostly carried out by small and marginal farmers who raised cattle, camels, goats, and sheep, among other species, for milk. Finding the Itang Special Woreda cow milk value chain is the study's main goal. In order to gather primary data, 204 smallholder dairy farmer households were randomly selected, and the market concentration ratio was calculated using 20 traders. Descriptive statistics, econometric models, and rank analysis were used to achieve the above specified goals. Out of all the participants in the milk value chain, producers, cafés, hotels, and dairy cooperatives had the largest gross marketing margins, accounting for 100% of the consumer price in channels I and II, 55% in channels III and V, and 25.5% in channels V. The number of children under five, the number of milking cows owned, the amount of money from non-dairy sources, the frequency of extension service contacts, the amount of milk produced each day, and the availability of market information were found to have an impact on smallholders' involvement in the milk market. Numerous obstacles also limited the amount of milk produced and marketed. The poll claims that general health issues, sickness, predators, and a lack of veterinary care are plaguing farmers. In order to address the issue of milk perishability, the researchers recommended the host community and organization to construct an agro milk processor, renovate the dairy cooperative in the study region, and restructure the current conventional marketing to lower the transaction and cost of milk marketing.
Approaches and interventions to make SI function in the Ethiopian Highlands: ...africa-rising
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LIVES feed value chain development: Approaches and scalable interventions ILRI
Presented by Yayneshet Tesfay, Abule Ebro, Yoseph Mekasha, Zeleke Mekuriaw, Yigzaw Dessalegn, Solomon Gizaw, Amenti Chala, Mesfin Tefera, Teshome Derso, Worku Teka, Dawit Woldemariam, Haile Tilahun, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Dirk Hoekstra and Azage Tegegne at the Workshop and Exhibition on Promoting Productivity and Market Access Technologies and Approaches to Improve Farm Income and Livelihoods in Ethiopia: Lessons from Action Research Projects, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 8-9 December 2016
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Review on Sheep and Goat management practices, Constraints, Opportunities and...Premier Publishers
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Sheep and goat productions are highly affected by feed shortage, disease and parasites, water shortage, management, high predatory, and market instability. There are opportunities to increase their production like population growth, increasing urbanization, rising incomes, the domestic demand for meat, the establishment of different agro-industrial parks, several development partners involved in higher learning; research and development are currently dedicated to sheep and goat development. Depending on this review it is imperative to practice modern production systems with better technology in urban and rural areas to improve the traditional system through feed supplementation and better health care.
Role of herbivores in sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan AfricaILRI
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Livestock feed and forage
1. Livestock feed and forage options development
and scaling: Africa RISING experience in the
Ethiopian highlands
Kindu Mekonnen, Melkamu Bezabih, Peter Thorne, Aberra
Adie and Million Getnet
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
SLS Virtual Monday Morning Coffee Presentation
5 October 2020
2. Introduction
Livestock pop in Ethiopia –cattle, shoats and equines
=137.2 million, cattle=60 million (CSA, 2018)
Constraints for livestock production in Ethiopia (Feed,
health and breed related)
Imbalance between feed demand and supply (Table 1)
Agro-ecological systems Total
livestock
population
Feed demand
(t yr-1)
Feed supply-
good year
(t yr-1)
Feed supply-
average year
(t yr-1)
Feed supply-
bad year
(t yr-1)
Lowland grazing (60%) 52265228 47,666,865 68,290,410 51,326,540 34,183,279
Mixed systems –RF
deficient (15%)
25424149 28,975,954 28,076,555 19,209,548 15,173,235
Mixed systems- RF
Sufficient (25%)
38734106 53,350,275 48,853,394 38,004,014 31,920,918
Total 116423483 129,993,094 145,220,359 108,540,102 81,277,432
Source: Ethiopia Livestock Master Plan -ELMP (2015)
Table 1. Feed balances for the different livestock production systems under different climatic
conditions
3. Africa RISING approaches to address feed and
forage related problems
Selected representative sites in consultation with local
partners in four regions
Diagnosed feed and forage situation (FEAST, PCA, RTS)
Identified potential intervention options (CGIAR partners)
Validated feed and forage intervention options (on-farm)
Demonstrated best bet feed and forage options, and post-
harvest management and utilization practices (within and
outside AR sites) to enhance adaptation by users
Explored different options for forage seed multiplication
(cooperatives, unions, model farmers, FTCs, NGOs, local
Universities and research centers)
Facilitated wider scaling (development partnership
arrangement)
4. Achievements/ contributions
Farmers have started allocating more land for
forage production – from 100 m2 to more than 1000
m2 -because of the project effort on awareness
creation (field days, demonstration, training, visits)
AR validated feed and forage technologies are now
mainstreaming through partner organisations
without direct AR involvement
AR project managed to reach and benefit more than
50K farmers from 2017 to 2019 with feed and
forage options through direct and partners
engagement (NGOs, extension, ILSSI, TAAT,
Grass2cash project, local Universities and research
centers)- (Table 2).
5. Total number of beneficiaries in 2017, 2018 and 2019 from feed and forage
intervention= 50709
Targets from 2017 to 2019= 62442
Targets from 2017 to 2021= 126,059
Technological options 2017 2018 2019
Oat/vetch 1503 6647 5146
Desho grass 1018 517 112
Sweet lupin 106 113 0
Alfalfa 3 32 226
Faba bean/forage intercropping 16 0 0
Tree luceren 11388 12535 10788
Feed trough 25 137 237
Fodder beet 0 0 61
Elephant grass 0 0 99
Total 14059 19981 16669
Table 2. Number of beneficiary farmers from 2017 to 2019.
Note: Beneficiaries number for 2019 is under compilation
Feed trough- 862 farmers constructed in Basona and Endamehoni sites in 2019
6. Producing suitability maps of the feed and forage options
for further investment by any interested groups (e.g. TL)
Based on the preliminary result, tree lucerne (TL) can be
grown on 125K ha of land, which can produce a dry matter
of 1.0 -1.25 million t y-1 .
7. Challenges
Lack of good quality seeds of the improved forage options
to facilitate wider scaling, Example - fodder beet
Unaffordable seed price– alfalfa- USD 35 per kg of seed
Competing use of forages- feeding at early stage rather than
managing a portion for seed production
Wider scaling through DPs demand fund allocation
Lack of proper varietal release policy and seed certification?
Fodder beet seed production in Africa RISING site in Sinana, Ethiopia
8. Oat-vetch mixture provides high biomass yields (12 t ha-1 of DM). It is a
balanced diet in terms of protein and energy. Milk yield improvement as a
result of supplementation: oat-vetch >50%
Livestock feed and forage management and
utilization practices- Examples
9. Oat-vetch mixture
Intercropping selected faba bean varieties with improved forage crops:
The intervention provides both grain for the hh and feed for the hh’s
livestock.
10. Sweet lupin: yields up to 3 t ha-1 of grain and 8 t ha-1 of haulm.
Supplementation of 200 g of sweet lupine grain daily to fattening sheep
results in a daily body weight gain of about 75 g.
11. Alfalfa: biomass yield of 20 t DM ha-1 can be obtained from 6 to
8 cuts under farmers’ fields and management conditions.
12. Tree Lucerne: produce more than 7 t ha-1 of dry biomass year-1. A 1 kg
supplement of dried TL leaf feed to a lactating dairy cow can give up to 1.2
litres of extra milk.
14. Desho grass: produce 4-5.5 t ha-1 DM, harvesting can be done 3-4 times
per year depending on the environment.
15. Fodder beet: high biomass yield= 20.2±5.26 t DM ha-1. Milk yield
improvement as a result of supplementation: up to 33%.
16. Feed trough and feed shed: reduce wastage (30-50 %), save 10-20% of
labor time for feeding.
17. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
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