This document discusses the challenges of creating sustainable agri-retail supply chains. It notes that the horticulture sector in developing countries faces issues like price fluctuations, poor quality, and post-harvest handling. An ideal horticultural supply chain would be based on consumer demand, employ branding, ensure quality and safety, and use a multi-firm approach. Organized retail is seen as a key player that can help address these challenges through differentiation strategies, value creation through processing, and building sustainability in supply chains. However, organized retail also impacts unorganized retailers, farmers and intermediaries.
Postharvest feed handling and utilization innovation africa-rising
This document summarizes efforts to reduce postharvest feed losses and improve feed utilization in smallholder systems in Ethiopia. Methods included training farmers in conservation practices and feed formulation. Improved feed troughs and sheds were constructed and demonstrated, reducing feed waste by over 30% and improving feed quality. Analysis found the costs of the troughs and sheds could be recovered within 6 months and 2-3 years, respectively. Over 140 troughs were subsequently scaled up with partners. Challenges to wider adoption included the need for locally suitable materials and designs.
N2Africa project in strengthening the capacity of partners working within leg...ILRI
The document summarizes donations and capacity building efforts of the N2Africa project in Ethiopia. The project donated a laminar flow cabinet, four pickup trucks, and ten motorbikes to various universities and research institutions. It supported one PhD student and trained over 1100 specialists in topics like inoculant technology and gender mainstreaming. Finally, the project worked with over 25,000 smallholder farmers on improved legume production and reached 30 districts across 4 regions of Ethiopia.
Use of grain legumes residues as livestock feed in the smallholder mixed crop...ILRI
This document summarizes research on using grain legume residues as livestock feed in smallholder mixed crop-livestock farming systems in Ethiopia. It outlines that mixed crop-livestock production is the predominant farming system, where livestock play an important role in crop cultivation while obtaining feed from crop residues. However, crop residues are often deficient in nutrients, posing a challenge to livestock productivity. The document discusses opportunities to improve the feed quality of grain legume residues through crop management techniques like fertilizer application and inoculation. It aims to boost the role of higher-quality grain legume residues in fodder supply to benefit smallholder farmers and livestock.
Forage seed supply in Ethiopia—Some thoughts on current status and how it mig...ILRI
Presented by Alan Duncan, Jean Hanson, David Spielman and Ranjitha Puskur at the National Forage Seed Workshop, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, 12-14 May 2011.
FeedSeed - A PPP innovation platform approach to scaling up forage seed systems ILRI
The document summarizes the FeedSeed project which aims to establish a sustainable forage seed system in Ethiopia through a public-private partnership (PPP) approach. The project will create a forage seed business incubator to provide training and mentoring to private and public seed entrepreneurs. It will also train farmers to produce quality forage seed and better feed their livestock, improving productivity and adaptation to climate change. The goal is for more livestock keepers to access improved forage seeds through new seed businesses, intensifying animal systems sustainably.
Promoting collective marketing to ensure smallholder farmer access to domesti...ILRI
N2Africa is a project that partners with legume value chain actors in Africa to promote improved legume technologies and market access for smallholder farmers. The project facilitated an agreement between Mama Farmers Cooperative Union and AKF animal feed company in Ethiopia. This agreement allowed over 1,500 tons of soybeans from smallholder farmers in the Pawe cluster to be sold collectively to AKF in 2015. However, challenges remain regarding quality control, business capacity of unions, and meeting commitments. Opportunities also exist in growing domestic and international demand for pulses.
Animal feed production, processing and marketing: A case for public-private p...ILRI
The document discusses objectives and approaches around strengthening public-private partnerships for sustainable and equitable animal feed value chains in Ethiopia. The objectives are to increase availability and affordability of off-farm feed resources, develop feed value chains through partnerships, and generate business opportunities in feed production to make animal foods more affordable. The approaches include establishing partnership platforms, recognizing economic considerations, and developing context-specific business plans and quality certification schemes for small- and medium-sized feed enterprises.
This document discusses the challenges of creating sustainable agri-retail supply chains. It notes that the horticulture sector in developing countries faces issues like price fluctuations, poor quality, and post-harvest handling. An ideal horticultural supply chain would be based on consumer demand, employ branding, ensure quality and safety, and use a multi-firm approach. Organized retail is seen as a key player that can help address these challenges through differentiation strategies, value creation through processing, and building sustainability in supply chains. However, organized retail also impacts unorganized retailers, farmers and intermediaries.
Postharvest feed handling and utilization innovation africa-rising
This document summarizes efforts to reduce postharvest feed losses and improve feed utilization in smallholder systems in Ethiopia. Methods included training farmers in conservation practices and feed formulation. Improved feed troughs and sheds were constructed and demonstrated, reducing feed waste by over 30% and improving feed quality. Analysis found the costs of the troughs and sheds could be recovered within 6 months and 2-3 years, respectively. Over 140 troughs were subsequently scaled up with partners. Challenges to wider adoption included the need for locally suitable materials and designs.
N2Africa project in strengthening the capacity of partners working within leg...ILRI
The document summarizes donations and capacity building efforts of the N2Africa project in Ethiopia. The project donated a laminar flow cabinet, four pickup trucks, and ten motorbikes to various universities and research institutions. It supported one PhD student and trained over 1100 specialists in topics like inoculant technology and gender mainstreaming. Finally, the project worked with over 25,000 smallholder farmers on improved legume production and reached 30 districts across 4 regions of Ethiopia.
Use of grain legumes residues as livestock feed in the smallholder mixed crop...ILRI
This document summarizes research on using grain legume residues as livestock feed in smallholder mixed crop-livestock farming systems in Ethiopia. It outlines that mixed crop-livestock production is the predominant farming system, where livestock play an important role in crop cultivation while obtaining feed from crop residues. However, crop residues are often deficient in nutrients, posing a challenge to livestock productivity. The document discusses opportunities to improve the feed quality of grain legume residues through crop management techniques like fertilizer application and inoculation. It aims to boost the role of higher-quality grain legume residues in fodder supply to benefit smallholder farmers and livestock.
Forage seed supply in Ethiopia—Some thoughts on current status and how it mig...ILRI
Presented by Alan Duncan, Jean Hanson, David Spielman and Ranjitha Puskur at the National Forage Seed Workshop, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, 12-14 May 2011.
FeedSeed - A PPP innovation platform approach to scaling up forage seed systems ILRI
The document summarizes the FeedSeed project which aims to establish a sustainable forage seed system in Ethiopia through a public-private partnership (PPP) approach. The project will create a forage seed business incubator to provide training and mentoring to private and public seed entrepreneurs. It will also train farmers to produce quality forage seed and better feed their livestock, improving productivity and adaptation to climate change. The goal is for more livestock keepers to access improved forage seeds through new seed businesses, intensifying animal systems sustainably.
Promoting collective marketing to ensure smallholder farmer access to domesti...ILRI
N2Africa is a project that partners with legume value chain actors in Africa to promote improved legume technologies and market access for smallholder farmers. The project facilitated an agreement between Mama Farmers Cooperative Union and AKF animal feed company in Ethiopia. This agreement allowed over 1,500 tons of soybeans from smallholder farmers in the Pawe cluster to be sold collectively to AKF in 2015. However, challenges remain regarding quality control, business capacity of unions, and meeting commitments. Opportunities also exist in growing domestic and international demand for pulses.
Animal feed production, processing and marketing: A case for public-private p...ILRI
The document discusses objectives and approaches around strengthening public-private partnerships for sustainable and equitable animal feed value chains in Ethiopia. The objectives are to increase availability and affordability of off-farm feed resources, develop feed value chains through partnerships, and generate business opportunities in feed production to make animal foods more affordable. The approaches include establishing partnership platforms, recognizing economic considerations, and developing context-specific business plans and quality certification schemes for small- and medium-sized feed enterprises.
Partnerships for sustainable intensification research in Africaafrica-rising
Presented by Mateete Bekunda, Asamoah Larbi, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon (IITA) and Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI) at the ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, 7 November 2016
This document discusses conservation beef enterprises among African pastoralists. It describes how arid lands make up 2/3 of Kenya's land, and how current rangeland management focuses on tourism, wildlife, and commercial ranching. Development projects have had minimal success. The Keekonyokie Conservation Meat Enterprise in Kenya shows how a pastoralist-owned meat business can achieve conservation goals by linking livestock trade to environmental sustainability through innovations like a biogas plant. The lessons learned are that pastoralism effectively conserves rangelands when integrated with economic and social sustainability, and that building social capital is key to conservation efforts in African rangelands.
Public-private partnerships for sustainable legume technology dissemination a...ILRI
This document summarizes a public-private partnership in southeastern Ethiopia for disseminating legume technologies and developing business opportunities. The partnership involves Balegreen spice and grain development, which pioneered mechanized chickpea farming, knowledge transfer to surrounding smallholder farmers, and an outgrower program. Through this outgrower model, Balegreen strengthened the seed system, provided last mile delivery of inoculants, and facilitated grain bulking and delivery to markets. The partnership improved coordination between actors like ILRI, Balegreen, seed companies, and research institutions. It enhanced farmers' skills and disseminated chickpea technologies to over 28,000 farmers while improving input supply and market access. The model
Africa RISING systems research experiencesafrica-rising
Africa RISING conducted systems research at sites in Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania to identify options for sustainable intensification of crop and livestock production. The research evaluated interventions to improve productivity, nutrition, natural resource management, and household incomes. Farm types were defined in each country based on characteristics like household endowments. Integrated research approaches included crop-livestock trials, testing intercropping systems, and intensifying maize-groundnut-pigeon pea systems. Partnering with development organizations helped scale technologies to more households. Lessons indicated a need for more whole-systems and gender-sensitive research, cross-disciplinary linkages, and innovation platforms to enhance communications and impact.
Feedback and recommendations on how AAS might most effectively move forwardWorldFish
- The document discusses the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), which has 11 member countries and 7 programs including a Livestock and Fisheries Programme.
- The Livestock and Fisheries Programme has 4 thematic areas of intervention related to improving livestock and fisheries productivity, access to markets, value addition, and interactions between livestock/fisheries and the environment.
- The document provides recommendations for how ASARECA's Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) can move forward, including conducting scoping studies to address regional constraints, integrating indigenous knowledge, promoting knowledge sharing, integrating crop-livestock-fisheries, developing gender-responsive technologies, and conducting participatory research.
This document discusses steps that governments and food supply chains can take to strengthen local food systems in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It recommends increasing production of certain vegetables and fruits to substitute imports and shorten supply chains. It also suggests that governments can influence consumption patterns to better align demand with local production capacities through coordination between public health, urban planning, and food businesses. A study in Waterloo found that a 10% shift in land use could meet regional growth needs. The document advocates for expanding organic agriculture beyond regulations to 10-15% of total production through policy initiatives including training, procurement programs, and investment.
Feeds and forage action research in the Africa RISING sites of the Ethiopian ...africa-rising
The document summarizes research on improving livestock feeds and forage production in Ethiopia. Over three years, more than 600 farmers participated in action research on various forage crops. Key findings included identifying optimal growing and harvesting techniques for tree lucerne, high yields and nutritional value from oat-vetch mixtures, and reduced wastage of feeds through improved storage and feeding methods. Partnerships were formed with various government, university, NGO and private sector organizations to facilitate wider adoption and scaling of improved livestock feeding practices.
Approaches and interventions to make SI function in the Ethiopian Highlands: ...africa-rising
Presented by Kindu Mekonnen and Peter Thorne (ILRI) at the Echo East Africa Symposium on Best Practices in Improved Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture in Highland Areas, Rwanda, 26-28 November 2019
Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture 2013 Mont...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
The document discusses sustainable intensification as a new paradigm for African agriculture that focuses on producing more outputs from the same or less land through efficient use of inputs while minimizing environmental damage. It provides examples of sustainable intensification practices being used in Africa like microdosing fertilizers in West Africa, the zai system of soil and water conservation in Burkina Faso, agroforestry with home gardens and Faidherbia trees, and new crop varieties like NERICA rice and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. It also describes the Faso Jigi marketing cooperative in Mali that helps smallholders access markets. The document recommends policies and investments that combine intensification with sustainable solutions, support for research and scaling up technologies, and
The document discusses sustainable intensification as a new paradigm for African agriculture that aims to increase agricultural outputs while reducing environmental impacts through innovative technologies and processes. It provides examples of sustainable intensification practices being used in Africa, such as microdosing fertilizers in West Africa, the Zai system used in Burkina Faso, agroforestry practices involving trees and home gardens, new rice varieties developed for Africa, and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes introduced in Mozambique. The document concludes by recommending policies and investments that can help scale up sustainable intensification practices to improve food security in Africa.
Small ruminant value chain development in Doyogena, EthiopiaILRI
The document outlines strategies to improve the small ruminant value chain in the Doyogena region of Ethiopia, including enabling sustainable feed access for farmers, improving animal health services, and establishing community-based breeding programs. It also discusses challenges such as land scarcity, disease pressures, lack of rural services, and inconsistent market supply. The vision is to increase household income and nutrition for value chain actors through a specialized and sustainable Doyogena sheep value chain by 2020.
Linking public procurement and sustainable production systems: opportunities ...FAO
This document outlines opportunities for linking public food procurement programs to sustainable agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the potential for public demand to support smallholder farmers through predictable purchases. Case studies from Niger and Senegal show purchases from farmers organizations increased productivity and farmer incomes. However, scaling up poses challenges as enabling policies, services and regulations are also needed to operationalize procurement considering production objectives. While public demand may incentivize sustainable practices, other supports are likely required. The relative size of procurement compared to total supply is also important to consider impacts and tradeoffs between objectives of price and promotion of certain farming methods.
Asia Regional Planning Meeting-Scaling up Research for Development and Impact...ICRISAT
Assessing the impacts of climate change and evaluate climate adaptation strategies in terms of anticipated shifts in the crop growing periods, water availability, major crop yields, and evaluate adaption strategies for developing climate resilient farming systems and to develop knowledge and skills of stakeholders on improved technologies for sustainable crop intensification.
Small ruminant value chain development in Bonga, EthiopiaILRI
This document outlines a project to develop the sheep value chain in Bonga, Ethiopia. It identifies challenges small sheep farmers face, including lack of grazing land, disease, inbreeding, and limited access to services. The project's vision is to increase incomes and nutrition of value chain actors through an efficient and sustainable Bonga sheep value chain by 2020. It will work to improve access to feed, animal health, breeding programs, market information, and training on sheep management practices.
1) Understanding African farming systems as they existed historically and today is essential for developing sustainable agricultural intensification approaches.
2) Farming systems analysis considers the social, economic, and environmental context of farm households and can help identify appropriate interventions.
3) Recommendations include reinvigorating farming systems education, institutionalizing systems approaches in policies, and using systems frameworks to guide project development and policy evaluation.
The Brussels Briefing on the subject of “Emerging donors and rising powers in agriculture in ACP countries” took place on Tuesday 27 October 2015 from 9:00h to 13:00h at the ACP Secretariat (451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Brussels, Room C ).
The Briefing discussed the key challenges and new opportunities to enhance South-South and Triangular cooperation. The Briefing : i) reviewed successes and the lessons learned from research and practice; ii) promoted the exchange of information on best practices and drivers of success; iii) fed into the debate various perspectives on policy options. It reviewed the key challenges and opportunities in South-South cooperation in agriculture and the lessons learned from research and practice. It looked at examples of successes in South-South and triangular partnerships across the ACP.
The global research partnership aims to improve agricultural productivity and incomes in dry areas of North Africa and West Asia through several initiatives. It will pursue more resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas and more stable, higher incomes for households in intensifiable areas. Key strategies include developing more sustainable management of land and water resources, improving access to food for women and children, strengthening rural markets, and reforming policies to incentivize sustainable practices. The program coordinates research across twelve areas clustered under three agricultural committees.
Presented by Ben Lukuyu and Michael Blummel, ILRI, at the Workshop on Identifying Investment Opportunities for Livestock Feed Resources Development in the Eastern Africa Sub-Region, ILRI Addis, 13-15 December 2017
Partnerships for sustainable intensification research in Africaafrica-rising
Presented by Mateete Bekunda, Asamoah Larbi, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon (IITA) and Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI) at the ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, 7 November 2016
This document discusses conservation beef enterprises among African pastoralists. It describes how arid lands make up 2/3 of Kenya's land, and how current rangeland management focuses on tourism, wildlife, and commercial ranching. Development projects have had minimal success. The Keekonyokie Conservation Meat Enterprise in Kenya shows how a pastoralist-owned meat business can achieve conservation goals by linking livestock trade to environmental sustainability through innovations like a biogas plant. The lessons learned are that pastoralism effectively conserves rangelands when integrated with economic and social sustainability, and that building social capital is key to conservation efforts in African rangelands.
Public-private partnerships for sustainable legume technology dissemination a...ILRI
This document summarizes a public-private partnership in southeastern Ethiopia for disseminating legume technologies and developing business opportunities. The partnership involves Balegreen spice and grain development, which pioneered mechanized chickpea farming, knowledge transfer to surrounding smallholder farmers, and an outgrower program. Through this outgrower model, Balegreen strengthened the seed system, provided last mile delivery of inoculants, and facilitated grain bulking and delivery to markets. The partnership improved coordination between actors like ILRI, Balegreen, seed companies, and research institutions. It enhanced farmers' skills and disseminated chickpea technologies to over 28,000 farmers while improving input supply and market access. The model
Africa RISING systems research experiencesafrica-rising
Africa RISING conducted systems research at sites in Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania to identify options for sustainable intensification of crop and livestock production. The research evaluated interventions to improve productivity, nutrition, natural resource management, and household incomes. Farm types were defined in each country based on characteristics like household endowments. Integrated research approaches included crop-livestock trials, testing intercropping systems, and intensifying maize-groundnut-pigeon pea systems. Partnering with development organizations helped scale technologies to more households. Lessons indicated a need for more whole-systems and gender-sensitive research, cross-disciplinary linkages, and innovation platforms to enhance communications and impact.
Feedback and recommendations on how AAS might most effectively move forwardWorldFish
- The document discusses the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), which has 11 member countries and 7 programs including a Livestock and Fisheries Programme.
- The Livestock and Fisheries Programme has 4 thematic areas of intervention related to improving livestock and fisheries productivity, access to markets, value addition, and interactions between livestock/fisheries and the environment.
- The document provides recommendations for how ASARECA's Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) can move forward, including conducting scoping studies to address regional constraints, integrating indigenous knowledge, promoting knowledge sharing, integrating crop-livestock-fisheries, developing gender-responsive technologies, and conducting participatory research.
This document discusses steps that governments and food supply chains can take to strengthen local food systems in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It recommends increasing production of certain vegetables and fruits to substitute imports and shorten supply chains. It also suggests that governments can influence consumption patterns to better align demand with local production capacities through coordination between public health, urban planning, and food businesses. A study in Waterloo found that a 10% shift in land use could meet regional growth needs. The document advocates for expanding organic agriculture beyond regulations to 10-15% of total production through policy initiatives including training, procurement programs, and investment.
Feeds and forage action research in the Africa RISING sites of the Ethiopian ...africa-rising
The document summarizes research on improving livestock feeds and forage production in Ethiopia. Over three years, more than 600 farmers participated in action research on various forage crops. Key findings included identifying optimal growing and harvesting techniques for tree lucerne, high yields and nutritional value from oat-vetch mixtures, and reduced wastage of feeds through improved storage and feeding methods. Partnerships were formed with various government, university, NGO and private sector organizations to facilitate wider adoption and scaling of improved livestock feeding practices.
Approaches and interventions to make SI function in the Ethiopian Highlands: ...africa-rising
Presented by Kindu Mekonnen and Peter Thorne (ILRI) at the Echo East Africa Symposium on Best Practices in Improved Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture in Highland Areas, Rwanda, 26-28 November 2019
Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture 2013 Mont...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
The document discusses sustainable intensification as a new paradigm for African agriculture that focuses on producing more outputs from the same or less land through efficient use of inputs while minimizing environmental damage. It provides examples of sustainable intensification practices being used in Africa like microdosing fertilizers in West Africa, the zai system of soil and water conservation in Burkina Faso, agroforestry with home gardens and Faidherbia trees, and new crop varieties like NERICA rice and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. It also describes the Faso Jigi marketing cooperative in Mali that helps smallholders access markets. The document recommends policies and investments that combine intensification with sustainable solutions, support for research and scaling up technologies, and
The document discusses sustainable intensification as a new paradigm for African agriculture that aims to increase agricultural outputs while reducing environmental impacts through innovative technologies and processes. It provides examples of sustainable intensification practices being used in Africa, such as microdosing fertilizers in West Africa, the Zai system used in Burkina Faso, agroforestry practices involving trees and home gardens, new rice varieties developed for Africa, and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes introduced in Mozambique. The document concludes by recommending policies and investments that can help scale up sustainable intensification practices to improve food security in Africa.
Small ruminant value chain development in Doyogena, EthiopiaILRI
The document outlines strategies to improve the small ruminant value chain in the Doyogena region of Ethiopia, including enabling sustainable feed access for farmers, improving animal health services, and establishing community-based breeding programs. It also discusses challenges such as land scarcity, disease pressures, lack of rural services, and inconsistent market supply. The vision is to increase household income and nutrition for value chain actors through a specialized and sustainable Doyogena sheep value chain by 2020.
Linking public procurement and sustainable production systems: opportunities ...FAO
This document outlines opportunities for linking public food procurement programs to sustainable agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the potential for public demand to support smallholder farmers through predictable purchases. Case studies from Niger and Senegal show purchases from farmers organizations increased productivity and farmer incomes. However, scaling up poses challenges as enabling policies, services and regulations are also needed to operationalize procurement considering production objectives. While public demand may incentivize sustainable practices, other supports are likely required. The relative size of procurement compared to total supply is also important to consider impacts and tradeoffs between objectives of price and promotion of certain farming methods.
Asia Regional Planning Meeting-Scaling up Research for Development and Impact...ICRISAT
Assessing the impacts of climate change and evaluate climate adaptation strategies in terms of anticipated shifts in the crop growing periods, water availability, major crop yields, and evaluate adaption strategies for developing climate resilient farming systems and to develop knowledge and skills of stakeholders on improved technologies for sustainable crop intensification.
Small ruminant value chain development in Bonga, EthiopiaILRI
This document outlines a project to develop the sheep value chain in Bonga, Ethiopia. It identifies challenges small sheep farmers face, including lack of grazing land, disease, inbreeding, and limited access to services. The project's vision is to increase incomes and nutrition of value chain actors through an efficient and sustainable Bonga sheep value chain by 2020. It will work to improve access to feed, animal health, breeding programs, market information, and training on sheep management practices.
1) Understanding African farming systems as they existed historically and today is essential for developing sustainable agricultural intensification approaches.
2) Farming systems analysis considers the social, economic, and environmental context of farm households and can help identify appropriate interventions.
3) Recommendations include reinvigorating farming systems education, institutionalizing systems approaches in policies, and using systems frameworks to guide project development and policy evaluation.
The Brussels Briefing on the subject of “Emerging donors and rising powers in agriculture in ACP countries” took place on Tuesday 27 October 2015 from 9:00h to 13:00h at the ACP Secretariat (451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Brussels, Room C ).
The Briefing discussed the key challenges and new opportunities to enhance South-South and Triangular cooperation. The Briefing : i) reviewed successes and the lessons learned from research and practice; ii) promoted the exchange of information on best practices and drivers of success; iii) fed into the debate various perspectives on policy options. It reviewed the key challenges and opportunities in South-South cooperation in agriculture and the lessons learned from research and practice. It looked at examples of successes in South-South and triangular partnerships across the ACP.
The global research partnership aims to improve agricultural productivity and incomes in dry areas of North Africa and West Asia through several initiatives. It will pursue more resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas and more stable, higher incomes for households in intensifiable areas. Key strategies include developing more sustainable management of land and water resources, improving access to food for women and children, strengthening rural markets, and reforming policies to incentivize sustainable practices. The program coordinates research across twelve areas clustered under three agricultural committees.
Presented by Ben Lukuyu and Michael Blummel, ILRI, at the Workshop on Identifying Investment Opportunities for Livestock Feed Resources Development in the Eastern Africa Sub-Region, ILRI Addis, 13-15 December 2017
Regional dairy policy brief: East Africa's forage sub-sector. Pathways to int...ProDairy E.A. Ltd
Dairy production in East Africa is characterized by low productivity, mainly due to animal nutrition constraints. There is a mismatch between the push for genetic breeds with high potential for milk production and the availability of quality forages that can meet the nutritional requirements of these breeds.
Presentation by Dr Sikhalazo Dube from ILRI, at the Regional planning meeting on ‘Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa – Building partnership for successful implementation’,13–15 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increasing use of fod...ILRI
Presentation to the FAP End of Project Workshop, Luang Prabang, Laos, 15-19 November 2010.
Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Dr. Nguyen Thi Mui (NIAS); Ms. Vo Thi Thin, Mr. Hoang Dinh Hieu (Ky Anh, Ha Tinh); Dr. Truong Tan Khanh, Mr. Van Tien Dung (Tay Nguyen University); Mr. Nguyen Van Ha, Mr. Hoang Van Nhien (Ea Kar, Daklak); Dr. Tassilo Tiemann (CIAT) ; Dr. Werner Stür (Consultant, former CIAT)
Overview of International Livestock Research (ILRI) activities in EthiopiaILRI
Presented by Siboniso Moyo at a Consultative Meeting on Strengthening CGIAR - EARS partnerships for effective agricultural transformation in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 4–5 December 2014
Small ruminant value chain development in Doyogena, EthiopiaILRI
This document outlines a plan to develop the Doyogena sheep value chain in Ethiopia over the next 7 years. It identifies challenges such as disease issues, lack of funding and supplies for animal health services, and feed shortages. The plan calls for increasing feed supply, providing training to farmers, improving animal health services, implementing community breeding programs to address genetic issues, forming farmer cooperatives, and improving market linkages through stakeholder meetings. The overall goal is to create an efficient, sustainable, and trademarked Doyogena sheep value chain to increase incomes and nutrition of those involved by 2020.
This document summarizes the work of the National Livestock Resources Research Institute (NaLIRRI) in Uganda on livestock research, technology, and innovation related to the dairy value chain. NaLIRRI conducts research in livestock health, nutrition, breeding, and apiculture. Its research focuses on improving animal productivity through technologies like disease-resistant forage varieties, vaccination programs, and cross-breeding indigenous cattle. NaLIRRI also disseminates its research findings to farmers and coordinates with other agencies in the Ministry of Agriculture on priorities like improving dairy cattle genetics and productivity.
This document discusses breeding programs that have been implemented in Ethiopia for dairy cattle, sheep, and chickens. It outlines several approaches used: straight breeding (selection), community-based breed improvement, crossbreeding, and breed substitution. For dairy cattle, crossbreeding programs with Friesian, Jersey and Simmental breeds were used to increase milk production of indigenous Fogera, Horro, Boran and Barka cattle. Artificial insemination was also utilized but faced challenges. Breeding programs were established across Ethiopia with objectives like pure breeding indigenous breeds, evaluating crossbreeds, and developing composite breeds.
Sustainable intensification (SI) innovations driven by crop ecology: Africa R...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI), Melkamu Bezabih (ILRI), Peter Thorne (ILRI), Aberra Adie (ILRI) and Seid Ahmed (ICARDA) for the Africa RISING Science for Impact Workshop, Dar es Salaam, 17-19 January 2017
The Livestock CRP: A program to translate livestock research into impactILRI
The Livestock CRP aims to translate livestock research into impact through integrated interventions and scaling. It brings together 5 research centers to work on livestock genetics, health, feeds, forages, and value chains in 4 priority countries. One example is a project in Uganda developing the pork value chain through a multi-stakeholder platform to stimulate business and conduct research on production, health including African Swine Fever, and food safety. The overall goal is to increase sustainable production and supply of nutritious animal-source foods and improve incomes and resilience of smallholder livestock farmers.
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish: More meat, milk and fish, by an...ILRI
This document discusses improving access to meat, milk, and fish for poor people. It proposes a solution-driven, whole value chain approach to research and development focusing on a few select livestock and fish value chains. The goal is to demonstrate impact and work with partners to design integrated interventions and scale up benefits for the poor. Key opportunities identified are that animal-source foods are highly valuable globally and critical for nutrition, and meeting growing demand can improve livelihoods for many small-scale farmers and fishers.
More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor: Solution-driven research with d...ILRI
Poster prepared at the Tropentag 2014: Bridging the Gap between Increasing Knowledge and Decreasing Resources Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-19 September 2014
Meat, milk and fish are critical to poor people as food and income. They provide critical inputs in the diets of the poor, especially those who are malnourished.
The Challenge: to ensure the poor can have better access to enough and affordable animal-source foods as populations increase, resources for producing them become more constrained and demand for these foods rises. Part of the solution will come from increased productivity in the small-scale production and marketing systems that many poor rely on for their animal-source foods. We identify opportunities to improve and transform these systems to better meet the needs of the poor.
Research on integration of livestock in agricultural systems of Babati Districtafrica-rising
Poster prepared by Ben Lukuyu (ILRI), Fred Kizito (CIAT) and Leonard Marwa (TALIRI) for the Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3–5 October 2018.
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Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
Presentation by Guy Ilboudo, Abel Sènabgè Biguezoton, Cheick Abou Kounta Sidibé, Modou Moustapha Lo, Zoë Campbell and Michel Dione at the 6th Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Research and Expertise Networks (PPR-GREN) annual meeting, Bengaluru, India, 28–30 November 2023.
Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
Poster by Guy Ilboudo, Abel Sènabgè Biguezoton, Cheick Abou Kounta Sidibé, Modou Moustapha Lo, Zoë Campbell and Michel Dione presented at the 6th Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Research and Expertise Networks (PPR-GREN) annual meeting, Bengaluru, India, 29 November 2023.
A training, certification and marketing scheme for informal dairy vendors in ...ILRI
Presentation by Silvia Alonso, Jef L. Leroy, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas and Delia Grace at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Milk safety and child nutrition impacts of the MoreMilk training, certificati...ILRI
Poster by Silvia Alonso, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Delia Grace and Jef L. Leroy presented at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Preventing the next pandemic: a 12-slide primer on emerging zoonotic diseasesILRI
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
Preventing preventable diseases: a 12-slide primer on foodborne diseaseILRI
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
Preventing a post-antibiotic era: a 12-slide primer on antimicrobial resistanceILRI
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help enhance one's emotional well-being and mental clarity.
Food safety research in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the first technical meeting to launch the Food Safety Working Group under the One Health Partnership framework, Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 September 2023
The Food Safety Working Group (FSWG) in Vietnam was created in 2015 at the request of the Deputy Prime Minister to address food safety issues in the country. It brings together government agencies, ministries, and development partners to facilitate joint policy dialogue and improve food safety. Over eight years of operations led by different organizations, the FSWG has contributed to various initiatives. However, it faces challenges of diminished government participation over time and dependence on active members. Going forward, it will strengthen its operations by integrating under Vietnam's One Health Partnership framework to better engage stakeholders and achieve policy impacts.
Reservoirs of pathogenic Leptospira species in UgandaILRI
Presentation by Lordrick Alinaitwe, Martin Wainaina, Salome Dürr, Clovice Kankya, Velma Kivali, James Bugeza, Martin Richter, Kristina Roesel, Annie Cook and Anne Mayer-Scholl at the University of Bern Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 29 June 2023.
Assessing meat microbiological safety and associated handling practices in bu...ILRI
Presentation by Patricia Koech, Winnie Ogutu, Linnet Ochieng, Delia Grace, George Gitao, Lily Bebora, Max Korir, Florence Mutua and Arshnee Moodley at the 8th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana, 26–29 September 2023.
Ecological factors associated with abundance and distribution of mosquito vec...ILRI
Poster by Max Korir, Joel Lutomiah and Bernard Bett presented the 8th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana, 26–29 September 2023.
Practices and drivers of antibiotic use in Kenyan smallholder dairy farmsILRI
Poster by Lydiah Kisoo, Dishon M. Muloi, Walter Oguta, Daisy Ronoh, Lynn Kirwa, James Akoko, Eric Fèvre, Arshnee Moodley and Lillian Wambua presented at Tropentag 2023, Berlin, Germany, 20–22 September 2023.
PPT on Direct Seeded Rice presented at the three-day 'Training and Validation Workshop on Modules of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Technologies in South Asia' workshop on April 22, 2024.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
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When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
Mending Clothing to Support Sustainable Fashion_CIMaR 2024.pdfSelcen Ozturkcan
Ozturkcan, S., Berndt, A., & Angelakis, A. (2024). Mending clothing to support sustainable fashion. Presented at the 31st Annual Conference by the Consortium for International Marketing Research (CIMaR), 10-13 Jun 2024, University of Gävle, Sweden.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Scaling improved feed and forage technologies at selected ILRI‐SIMLESA project locations in Ethiopia and Tanzania
1. Objective
• To provide alternative quality feed resources to reduce the heavy reliance on crop
residues (traditional feed resources)
• To increase productivity of livestock through better feeding so as to ensure
household nutritional security especially women and children
• To provide alternative income generation options to the crop‐livestock farmers
through direct fodder sales, livestock and livestock products marketing
Scaling Improved Feed and Forage technologies at selected
ILRI‐SIMLESA project locations in Ethiopia and Tanzania
Aberra Adie, Melkamu Bezabih, Ben Lukuyu, Endalkachew Wolde‐meskel, Peter Thorne
(Partners: CIMMYT, OARI, EIAR, ARARI, and SACE in Ethiopia; and NMAIST‐Tanzania)
Next Steps
• Inclusion of development partners and private sector for wider scaling
• Link forage development to effective livestock product market system
• Generate evidence of adoption through strong socio‐economic study
• Diversify forage options in collaboration with national research institutions
Introduction
In the mixed crop‐livestock farming systems, crop residues have multiple
competing uses, including animal feed, soil mulch, fuel, and construction. Due
to ever shrinking grazing land, farmers have increasingly relied on crop residues
for livestock feeding. This has an important negative implication on the
sustainability of the system. Scaling improved forage technologies and feeding
practices have the potential not only to provide alternative quality feed
resources for the livestock but also to create market opportunities and provide
nutritional security for small holders.
Progresses
• In Ethiopia, 288 direct and 1933 indirect beneficiaries participated in forage
development on a total of about 37.5 hectares of land in 2016. The numbers
are expected to be higher in 2017 crop season.
• In Tanzania, a menu of forage options drawn from Africa RISING project is used
for developing scenarios of feeding management decisions through a
stakeholder‐driven process
• In collaboration with QAAFI, modelling approaches to elaborate the outcomes
and trade‐offs of different feed allocation and livestock management strategies
have been developed
Approaches
• Engagement with local research and development partners
• Diagnostic studies using quantitative surveys and community engagements
• On‐farm validation of promising forage varieties and feeding practices with
interested and strategically selected farmers at ILRI‐SIMLESA target sites and
pre scaling to a wider context
• Capacity building to local experts, farmers and university graduates
Country Major
Achievements
Future direction
Ethiopia • Number of
participants grow
time to time
• Farmers willing to
allocate even
irrigable land for
fodder
• Increased
engagement with
development
partners and
private sector
• Socio economics
of the adopted
forages
Tanzania • Structured study to
develop scenarios
• Identification of
development
partners for
scaling
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Sustainable Intensification of
Maize‐Legume Systems for Food Security
in Eastern and Southern Africa