The document outlines 7 initial proposed Megaprograms (MPs) that will guide research under the new CGIAR Consortium model. The MPs include: 1) Integrated agriculture systems for the poor, 2) Policies and markets for enabling agricultural incomes, 3) Sustainable increases in staple crop productivity, 4) Agriculture, nutrition and health, 5) Water scarcity and land degradation, 6) Forests and trees, and 7) Climate change. The bulk of livestock research is expected to be contained within MP3 on livestock and fish, but MP4 on health and nutrition and other MPs may also include some livestock components. A Consortium Board and CEO will oversee research, and performance will be measured through contracts between
Findings of the report on Mycotoxin Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Francois Stepman
Prof. David Miller (Carleton University, Canada)
Workshop on “Engaging the Health and Nutrition Sectors in Aflatoxin Control in Africa”
March 23 – 24, 2016
Securing the global food supply is a central aim of the “GlobE - Global Food Security” funding measure within the German BioEconomy 2030 Research Strategy. In many countries growing competition for food crop land and fluctuating markets are putting pressure on existing food supply systems. In addition, the effects of climate change are also reducing the amount of agricultural land available. This affects in particular sub -Saharan African countries in which the food situation is already unstable.
Findings of the report on Mycotoxin Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Francois Stepman
Prof. David Miller (Carleton University, Canada)
Workshop on “Engaging the Health and Nutrition Sectors in Aflatoxin Control in Africa”
March 23 – 24, 2016
Securing the global food supply is a central aim of the “GlobE - Global Food Security” funding measure within the German BioEconomy 2030 Research Strategy. In many countries growing competition for food crop land and fluctuating markets are putting pressure on existing food supply systems. In addition, the effects of climate change are also reducing the amount of agricultural land available. This affects in particular sub -Saharan African countries in which the food situation is already unstable.
Presentation by Monika Varga (Research group on Process Network Engineering) at the 2016 annual meeting of the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD).
The Laboratory of Food Analysis at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UG...Francois Stepman
11 March 2016. Gent, Belgium. Department of Bioanalysis, Laboratory of Food Analysis Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Compilation of the presentations made during the visit and meeting with Prof. Dr. Pharm.D. Sarah De Saeger and doctoral students :
Melody Hove, Ugent, University of Zimbabwe (03/01/14 - now), “Human dietary exposure to mycotoxins in Zimbabwe and related risk assessment and management”
Cynthia Chilaka, Ugent, McPherson University (01/01/2015 - now), ” Fusarium mycotoxins and their masked forms in Nigerian foods: occurrence and influence of traditional processing methods”
Abebe Ayelign (Ethiopia – PhD student at Addis Ababa University, but performing his analysis of biomarkers in urine in my lab)
FANRPAN Policy Brief: Stemming Aflatoxin in the Groundnut Chain in Sub-Sahara...Francois Stepman
This policy brief has been specifically
prepared to highlight the importance of aflatoxins on human health and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It
contextualizes, (i) the preharvest and post-harvest factors that influence the proliferation of molds and aflatoxin
contamination in groundnuts in the SSA region, (ii) discusses feasible prevention and management strategies and
(iii) presents recommendations .
The sustainable use of animal genetics in developing countriesILRI
Presented by Steve Staal at the 2nd International Conference on Agricultural and Rural Development in Southeast Asia, Manila, Philippines, 12 November 2014
Genetics and genomic approaches for sustainable dairy cattle improvementILRI
Presented by Raphael Mrode at the Third Research Coordination Meeting, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, 7-11 June 2021
Dr. Pam Hullinger - Foot and Mouth Disease Continuity of Business Planning: C...John Blue
Foot and Mouth Disease Continuity of Business Planning: Current Focus and Progress to Date - Dr. Pam Hullinger, University of California, Davis Department of Veterinary Medicine & Epidemiology, from the 2012 Annual Conference of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, March 26 - 29, Denver, CO, USA.
More presentations at: http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2012-decreasing-resources-increasing-regulation-advance-animal-agriculture
Monica Olsen (National Food Agency of Sweden) Risk Benefit Assessment
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Improving Food Safety in Africa
Brad Flett - Agricultural Research Council - Grain Crops Institute, Potchefstroom, RSA. President of the African Society of Mycotoxicology
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Postharvest Loss Reduction & Mycotoxins programs in USAID’s Feed the Future I...Francois Stepman
Ahmed Kablan, Ph.D.
International Nutrition & Public Health Adviser
USAID /Bureau For Food Security/Office of Agriculture Research and Policy
USDA/ARS/Office of International Research Program
van Schagen - Walking the impact pathway: The CIALCA Experience in Mobilizing...CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Impact Assessment of the Community Animal Health System in Mandera West Distr...copppldsecretariat
The pastoralist communities in Kenya’s arid lands rely on their livestock for food and income, and basic veterinary care is one of the best ways to protect livestock assets and pastoralist livelihoods in these areas. This report examines the impact of a privatized, community-based veterinary service in the far northeast of Kenya, and focuses on the outcomes of clinical services provided by community-based animal health workers (CAHWs). Fatality rates in herds in treated by CAHWs using medicines from rural pharmacies were significantly lower than in herds where treatments were provided by untrained livestock keepers. The report adds to the substantial body of evidence already collected in Kenya on the impact and financial rationale for CAHW systems. Although many other countries have now legalized these systems and developed national guidelines for CAHW training, Kenya has yet to officially recognize CAHWs and overall, veterinary services in pastoralist areas often remain in the hands of untrained workers and unlicensed drug vendors.
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LivestockNet: Swiss Network for Livestock in Developmentcopppldsecretariat
Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Presentation by Monika Varga (Research group on Process Network Engineering) at the 2016 annual meeting of the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD).
The Laboratory of Food Analysis at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UG...Francois Stepman
11 March 2016. Gent, Belgium. Department of Bioanalysis, Laboratory of Food Analysis Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Compilation of the presentations made during the visit and meeting with Prof. Dr. Pharm.D. Sarah De Saeger and doctoral students :
Melody Hove, Ugent, University of Zimbabwe (03/01/14 - now), “Human dietary exposure to mycotoxins in Zimbabwe and related risk assessment and management”
Cynthia Chilaka, Ugent, McPherson University (01/01/2015 - now), ” Fusarium mycotoxins and their masked forms in Nigerian foods: occurrence and influence of traditional processing methods”
Abebe Ayelign (Ethiopia – PhD student at Addis Ababa University, but performing his analysis of biomarkers in urine in my lab)
FANRPAN Policy Brief: Stemming Aflatoxin in the Groundnut Chain in Sub-Sahara...Francois Stepman
This policy brief has been specifically
prepared to highlight the importance of aflatoxins on human health and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It
contextualizes, (i) the preharvest and post-harvest factors that influence the proliferation of molds and aflatoxin
contamination in groundnuts in the SSA region, (ii) discusses feasible prevention and management strategies and
(iii) presents recommendations .
The sustainable use of animal genetics in developing countriesILRI
Presented by Steve Staal at the 2nd International Conference on Agricultural and Rural Development in Southeast Asia, Manila, Philippines, 12 November 2014
Genetics and genomic approaches for sustainable dairy cattle improvementILRI
Presented by Raphael Mrode at the Third Research Coordination Meeting, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, 7-11 June 2021
Dr. Pam Hullinger - Foot and Mouth Disease Continuity of Business Planning: C...John Blue
Foot and Mouth Disease Continuity of Business Planning: Current Focus and Progress to Date - Dr. Pam Hullinger, University of California, Davis Department of Veterinary Medicine & Epidemiology, from the 2012 Annual Conference of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, March 26 - 29, Denver, CO, USA.
More presentations at: http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2012-decreasing-resources-increasing-regulation-advance-animal-agriculture
Monica Olsen (National Food Agency of Sweden) Risk Benefit Assessment
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Improving Food Safety in Africa
Brad Flett - Agricultural Research Council - Grain Crops Institute, Potchefstroom, RSA. President of the African Society of Mycotoxicology
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Postharvest Loss Reduction & Mycotoxins programs in USAID’s Feed the Future I...Francois Stepman
Ahmed Kablan, Ph.D.
International Nutrition & Public Health Adviser
USAID /Bureau For Food Security/Office of Agriculture Research and Policy
USDA/ARS/Office of International Research Program
van Schagen - Walking the impact pathway: The CIALCA Experience in Mobilizing...CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Impact Assessment of the Community Animal Health System in Mandera West Distr...copppldsecretariat
The pastoralist communities in Kenya’s arid lands rely on their livestock for food and income, and basic veterinary care is one of the best ways to protect livestock assets and pastoralist livelihoods in these areas. This report examines the impact of a privatized, community-based veterinary service in the far northeast of Kenya, and focuses on the outcomes of clinical services provided by community-based animal health workers (CAHWs). Fatality rates in herds in treated by CAHWs using medicines from rural pharmacies were significantly lower than in herds where treatments were provided by untrained livestock keepers. The report adds to the substantial body of evidence already collected in Kenya on the impact and financial rationale for CAHW systems. Although many other countries have now legalized these systems and developed national guidelines for CAHW training, Kenya has yet to officially recognize CAHWs and overall, veterinary services in pastoralist areas often remain in the hands of untrained workers and unlicensed drug vendors.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
LivestockNet: Swiss Network for Livestock in Developmentcopppldsecretariat
Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Introducing the new CGIAR structure and relationsILRI
Presented by John McDermott to the ILRI workshop on safety of animal source foods with an emphasis on the informal sectors, New Delhi, India, 8 February 2011
Livestock research for Africa’s food security and poverty reductionILRI
Presented by Jimmy Smith, Shirley Tarawali, Iain Wright, Suzanne Bertrand, Polly Ericksen, Delia Grace and Ethel Makila at a side event at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week, Accra, Ghana, 15-20 July 2013
How can Animal Biotechnology contribute to Agenda 2063, ST&I Strategy for Afr...ILRI
Presented by Christian K. Tiambo, Jimmy Smith, Okeyo Mwai and Steve Kemp at the Animal Biotechnology: The Next Frontier Stakeholders Sensitization and Awareness Workshop on Animal Biotechnology Applications and Regulatory Perspectives, Naivasha, Kenya, 22-24 March 2021
Research on sustainable intensification in the CGIAR research programsILRI
Presented by Iain Wright at the Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands: Project Design Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 January-2 February 2012.
CRP Livestock and IFAD SmaRT Project: Small Ruminant meat value chain Transfo...ILRI
Presented by Barbara Rischkowsky, ICARDA, at the SmaRT Ethiopia workshop and field day on Small Ruminant Community Based Breeding Program (CBBP), Hosaena, Ethiopia, 27–28 March 2018
the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) summoned a symposium on “Convergence of policies and programs for sustainable and climate resilient agriculture and role of agricultural economics association in contemporary world” on December 13, 2014 as part of Joint Annual Research Forum at Hectare Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The aim of the symposium was to bring together researchers from South Asian countries to present the policy measures taken within their countries regarding climate –smart agriculture and to explore the convergence among them for the near future.
Food safety performance in animal-source food value chainsILRI
Presentation by Fred Unger, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Phuc Pham-Duc, Pham Van Hung, Huyen Le Thi Thanh, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Nguyen Thanh Luong, Hai Ngo Hoang Tuan and Delia Grace at the 1st International Conference on Veterinary and Animal Science - the role of veterinary science to cope with pandemics, Universitas Nusa Cendana, Kupang, Indonesia, 20 October 2020.
Recognising local innovation in livestock-keeping – a path to empowering womencopppldsecretariat
Prolinnova is an international network that involves a range of different stakeholders. The network promotes farmer-led approaches to development such as participatory innovation development. Farmers and natural resource users often find novel ways of using natural resources to address challenges and improve their livelihoods. In many rural communities, women do not have the same access as men to resources such as land. They also often have much less decision-making power or capacity. Giving recognition to, and supporting, the innovative capacity of women farmers is seen as an effective mechanism to strengthen their role in rural research and development.
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Watershed Development and Livestock Rearing. Experiences and Learning from th...copppldsecretariat
This report documents the experiences of the Watershed Organisation Trust in implementing the Indo German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP) in Maharashtra, India. The documentation is based on project completion reports, extensive field visits and discussions with field staff and livestock rearing communities.
The study demonstrates that watershed development has immense scope to secure livestock-based livelihoods and, at the same time, build the natural resource base. This is possible, provided key elements such as securing availability and access to CPRs; investments in CPR regeneration with ridge (largely comprising forest lands)-to-valley approach; integration of grazing-based livestock systems and water budgeting in watershed planning; protection of ‘high potential recharge zones’; and utilizing traditional livestock systems to manage watersheds post-project, are in place.
Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
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 ]
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 ]
The Story of Rucibiraro Theresphore: a Farmer’s Inspiring Journey Out of Abso...copppldsecretariat
Janvier Gasasira, project coordinator of an IFAD-supported project in Rwanda, shared this story at the Second Global AgriKnowledge Share Fair IFAD, Rome, 26-29 September 2011.
Rucibiraro Theresphore, 49, received a cow from an IFAD project in Rwanda in 2007. Saving his earnings and opening a bank account, he was eventually able to purchase 2,500 chickens and another piece of land. Earlier this year he received the ‘best farmer’ award at the National Agriculture Show. Over the past four years, each of six neighbours received a cow from him through the project’s revolving fund – perhaps one of them will be the next ‘best farmer’.
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A single goat or a few hens will not lift a poor family out of poverty, but to participate in a well planned development project based on either a goat or a few hens can be and should be an educational process in which the participants learn to establish income generating activities
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Local Milk Sector in West Africa, Role of RPOs, Small and Medium Farmers in t...copppldsecretariat
Report from the Workshop held in Bamako on September 15 through 17, 2010.
French version also available: Filière Lait Local en Afrique de l’Ouest, rôle des OPR, des petits et moyens éleveurs dans la pleine expression de son potentiel. Actes de l’atelier tenu à Bamako du 15 au 17 septembre 2010
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Strengthening the Backyard Poultry. Experiences of AP Drough Adaptation Initi...copppldsecretariat
This process manual has emerged from experiences gained in the AP drought Adaptation Initiative (AP DAI), building on earlier experiences of WASSAN. The experiences have emerged from working with the Mandal Mahila Samakhyas (Federation of SHGs) in Mahabubnagar and Antapur districts of Andhra Pradesh.
The manual captures the essence of experience from field work. It provides a road-map and process steps for organizations that wish to initiate programs to strengthem backyard poultry.
Though the experiences in APDAI started from introducing “improved”birds from research institutions., it has been realized that improving the management systems and easing the constraints in traditional backyard poultry with local breeds is more important and sustained results.
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Community of Practice for Pro-Poor Livestock Development (CoP-PPLD). Strategi...copppldsecretariat
This Strategic Framework is the result of a corporate effort conducted during the Inception Workshop (Rome, 12-13 January, 2009) to establish the Community of Practice for Pro-poor Livestock Development (CoP-PPLD). It describes key CoP-PPLD features, goals and results that we, as members, strive to achieve. The Strategic Framework also defines the principles that guide our decisions and actions in this global, inclusive partnership supporting Pro-poor livestock development as a tool for poverty reduction.
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Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Small Ruminant Rearing – Product Markets, Opportunities and Constraintscopppldsecretariat
This report aims to place the economic context of small ruminant rearing within broader policy and institutional frameworks, and studies the value chains of goat and sheep meat, goat and sheep skin, and sheep wool. The study also documents some of the approaches and practices on small ruminant rearing submitted in response to SAPPLPP’s call for the same.
The objective of the study is the analysis and documentation of approaches and practices related to market prospects, and identification of opportunities for facilitating access of small-holder livestock owners to more remunerative markets.
The report successfully attempts to construct the value chains of three important products of the small ruminant sector - meat, leather and wool.
यह बकरी का जो व्यापार हैं -
कभी खूब घना
कभी मुट्ठी भर चना
और कभी वोह भी मना
(Jainul Aabeedin, West Bengal)
This business of goats -
Sometimes it flourishes
Sometimes it yields only a handful of chickpeas
And sometimes even that is denied
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Mixed Service of Human and Animal Health in Pastoral Zones: An Innovative and...copppldsecretariat
This document presents briefly an experience lesson learnt from two projects carried out by AVSF:
- The Project of Securization of Pastoral Systems N’Gourti-Termit, implemented by AVSF in partnership with the NGO KARKARA up North of Zinder region in the districts of N’gourti and Tesker, North-East of Niger.
- The Programme for food security for populations and livestock living in a nomadic environment, implemented by AVSF in partnership with the NGO ADESAH in the districts of Ber and Salam, circle of Tombouctou, North Mali.
The particularity of these two projects has consisted in implementing a mixed health service (animal and human) in pastoral zones.
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Unpacking the 'Poor Productivity' Myth - Women Resurrecting Poultry Biodivers...copppldsecretariat
1800 women of East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh spell out the new principles for in-situ indigenous poultry development! This initiative lead to a remarkable reduction in mortality, tripled financial benefits from poultry rearing, worked as a trigger to diversify agriculture practices and allowed women to reclaim their lost poultry heritage.
This note captures the women’s journey from marginalization to empowerment and answers two key questions…
How can indigenous backyard poultry contribute to livelihood development?
&
Are these initiatives sustainable?
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Development of Village Institutions for Equitable & Sustainable Access to Nat...copppldsecretariat
This Good Practice Note illustrates the practice of local institutional development and its role in pro-poor livestock development in the context of village Jhabla in Udaipur district of Rajasthan in the western part of India.
The work initiated by Seva Mandir in late 1980s has borne fruit as after two decades it demonstrates its robustness in gripping local community dynamics and assisting in providing better opportunities for livestock rearing. It highlights the need to reconsider inclusion of communities in governing their natural resources especially the forests and open pasture lands, which is a step in the right direction.
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This Good Practice challenges the misconception that community managed commons are more degraded than privatised ones.
Working in the most arid areas of Madhya Pradesh, Tree Grower Cooperative Societies secure community tenure over common land, build local social capital though multi-stakeholder village institutions to fulfil the Community based Natural Resource Management dream. This leads to a significant increase in biomass, vegetative cover, fodder and water availability that provides a boost to livestock development and establishes the importance of village institutions in Common Property Resource management.
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Backyard Poultry Farming Through Self-Help Groups in West Bengal - Towards Go...copppldsecretariat
The Scheme 'Distribution of cocks, drakes and cockerels, etc.' involves the distribution of Rhode Island Red (RIR) chickens and Khaki Campbell (KC) ducks to rural households. This is a centrally-sponsored family-based Scheme wherein the Department of Animal Resources Development, Government of West Bengal distributes poultry birds to marginal rural households throughout the State. This scheme shows that not only can it contribute to rural poverty reduction but also that, despite some shortcomings and the rather high subsidies, it is possibly bankable and could be strengthened and scaled-up through appropriate public private partnerships.
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Making Modern Poultry Markets Work for the Poor - An example of Cooperative D...copppldsecretariat
In the central plains of Madhya Pradesh, women poultry producers are learning how to beat diseases, build sheds, maintain account books and negotiate a remunerative price for their Broiler birds. Under the aegis of their cooperative, they have become entrepreneurs and successfully feed a complicated and volatile poultry market. This note captures the processes they adopted to break entry barriers and become a viable enterprise.
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Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development - A Backyard Poultry Value Chain I...copppldsecretariat
Engagement with highly vulnerable families in far flung areas of showcases a successful private-community partnership. Based on a rural poultry value chain that delivers 3 week old chicks to rearer's doorsteps, this initiative has lead to a 290 percent increase in rate of return on poultry investment, enhanced food security and household nutrition and has built women’s voice and mobility. The note captures this remarkable innovation and answers two key questions…West Bengal
How can business be Pro-Poor? &
How can such partnerships be made sustainable?”
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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 ]
2. Consortium Board and CEO to oversee all CGIAR
center research
First meeting in Nairobi, March 2010
CEO to be recruited
Consortium HQ either Addis Ababa, Delhi, Montpellier,
Nairobi or Rome
Strategic Results Framework to set priorities
Megaprograms for delivery
Currently 7, may expand to 15
Initial CN’s being submitted this week
To be reviewed externally and by Consortium Board end May
Those agreed go to full Proposal development
Multi-donor fund managed by a Fund Council
Performance contracts
2
3. MP1: Integrated agriculture systems for the poor
and vulnerable (potential fast tracked)
Integrated agriculture for dryland systems
Integrated agriculture for tropical humid systems
Integrated coastal/aquatic systems
MP2: Policies, institutions, and markets for
enabling agricultural incomes for the poor
3
4. MP3: Sustainable staple food productivity increase
for global food security (probably multiple MPs,
some potential fast tracked)
Rice
Maize
Wheat
Cluster: Pulses and legumes
Cluster: Roots and tubers, bananas and plantains
Cluster: Sorghum, millet and barley
Cluster: Livestock and fish
4
5. MP4: Agriculture, nutrition and health
MP5: Water scarcity and land degradation
MP6: Forests and Trees
MP7: Climate Change (potential fast tracked)
5
6. Systems with the deepest endemic poverty and with the most
vulnerable people
≤200 mm rainfall- Saharan and part of Sahelian zones in Africa
Systems with the greatest potential to impact on poor in the short
to medium term
300 to 600 mm, Sahelian countries in West Africa
Systems most vulnerable/at risk to degradation and climate
variability
500 to 900 mm - North Soudanian, Sub Sahelian climate (West Africa)
Types of intervention testing and research
Information (weather, prices) and tools (eg index based livestock
insurance) to manage weather and other risks
Participatory approaches to land use planning and conflict management
Payment for environmental services schemes
Ag, livestock and NRM technologies and practices validated, adapted and
assessed in system context
Institutional innovations around increasing market access
6
7. Intensification strategies, crops, feeds, nutrient cycling,
environmental management (an important component
here relates to trade offs in biomass use)
Feeding strategies in value chain context
Combining feed and breed with risk mitigating animal health
and insurance options
Optimising crop and livestock husbandry, crop residue use
Balanced feed options with positive environmental impacts
(including number of animals)
Manure management options
Longer term institutional and environmental
sustainability including issues related to policies to
provide enabling environment, incentives and
regulations
Land policy/regulations
Incentives/regulations relating to environmental issues
7
8. Policies and investments that enable poverty-reducing agricultural
growth
modeling for strategic foresight and future scenarios
international trade, macro and non-agricultural policies
production, natural resources and technology policies, and policy process
Value chains
input and output markets, incentives
testing interventions and capacity building
chain analysis methods, analysis of demand drivers
Enabling institutions and governance for the poor
governance in input/service supply
collective action
Livestock research elements
Livestock-specific features of modeling
(asset accumulation, natural resource interactions, non-market products and cost items)
Animal health issues in market, policy
Crop-livestock interaction and resource use pressures
Demand-led development interventions in the value chain
Data and sampling issues specific to livestock
9. Targeting and outcome assessment
Mapping of priority livestock and fish , targeting
strategies for specific technology, strategy and policy
interventions based on system analysis
Needs and constraints assessment and prioritization for
the Program, including gender analyses
Analysis of child nutrition impacts in livestock/fish
production systems, and strategies to increase availability
of these high nutrient products to rural children.
Outcome and communications strategies across Program
activities
Impact assessments of to guide research (re) design
9
10. Characterization, conservation, and selective breeding
Better understanding of the genetic attributes of various livestock
breeds and the systems under which they can be are raised
Mapping of genotypes for conservation
Develop bio-banking protocols and systems, including phenotypic
descriptions of biobanked material from indigenous livestock and
fish populations.
Improved delivery of genetics
Adapt enhanced reproductive technologies and strategies to
multiply and deliver appropriate livestock genotypes
Exploring applications from new science
Development of new tools to allow integration of sequence data
with rich phenotypic data including systems analysis.
Reproductive tools to discover and to exploit discoveries in
functional genomics to improve livestock productivity under
various production systems
10
11. Producing more and better quality forage and feed
resources:
Including crop residue fodder traits (quantity and quality) in
multidimensional crop improvement to exploit genetic
variation and by further targeted genetic enhancement towards
dual-purpose traits using conventional and marker assisted
crop breeding.
Improved dual purpose varieties of food – feed crops, and
improved pastures and forage options
Making better use of available feeds:
Harnessing spin-off technologies from 2nd generation bio fuel
technologies to improved basal diets
Strategic/smart supplementation strategies, byproduct based
rations with under-exploited local ingredients
Improving provision of forages and feeds through markets, and
sustainable forage and fodder crop seed/germplasm systems
11
12. Vaccines and diagnostics for orphan viral, bacterial
and protozoan diseases for which there are few or
no other providers (with focus on endemic
diseases threatening productivity, survival and
market access)
Thermostabilization of current vaccines
Identification of vaccine antigens and proof-of-
concept vaccine trials for priority diseases
Development of molecular fingerprinting tools for
pathogen detection and surveillance
Disease risk assessment and disease modeling
Strategies for delivery of improved health
interventions to producers
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13. Development strategies for pro-poor value chains for
livestock and fish products
Systems for sustainable production and delivery of appropriate
livestock and fish genetics with private & public partners
Systems for improved disease surveillance and control, both
within production systems and along product supply chains,
focused on endemic diseases
Strategies for technology integration and innovation- feeds,
health and genetics for sustained productivity increases
Testing adapted organisational mechanims (hubs, innovation
platforms, SME’s, PPPs) to facilitate the access to knowledge,
information and technology, and increase value , including
post-harvest.
Livestock and fish product and post harvest process
development, including food safety and certification systems
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14. Agriculture for improved food security, diet quality, and nutrition.
Develop, test, approaches to
maximize the impact of agriculture on improving the availability, access to
consumption of nutritious and diverse foods – focus on women and young children;
to increase global awareness and knowledge of the importance of nutritious foods and
high-quality diets
Biofortication
Managing the multiple burdens of agriculture- associated disease (mostly
zoonotics)
Measure the human health burden (DALYs), and other burdens of AADs including
equity; economic cost of lost human and animal productivity; trade; market access;
ecosystem services;
Develop and scientifically evaluate better ways of managing priority AADs.
Integrated ways of studying and tackling zoonotic and other diseases, based on
Ecohealth and One World, One Health approaches
Scenario and other futures analysis to understand disease trajectories, risk analysis
for better managing food and water borne disease and occupational hazards; ,and
identify mitigation options
Value chain analysis to upgrade the ability of value chains to deliver safe products
Evidence for the development of more effective surveillance and response systems
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15. Delivering greater water and land productivity in rainfed
and irrigated systems
Enhancing and safeguarding land and water access for the
poor especially women
Improving land and soil health and water quality to
reverse widespread soil nutrient depletion and degradation
of ecosystem services
Enhancing ecosystem services and building resilience to
maintain vital ecosystems
Livestock research elements
Improved land and water management to support
pastoral livestock systems
Improved water use efficiency of livestock production in crop-
livestock systems
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16. Adaptation to Decadal Climate Change
Adaptation Pathways for Current Climate Risk
Poverty Alleviation through Mitigation
Diagnosis and Vulnerability Assessment for
Making Strategic Choices
Livestock research elements
Improved management of C-L systems to enhance
adaptation
Understanding role of livestock in CC
In situ conservation of livestock genetics needed for
adaptation
Increased productivity of livestock for mitigation
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17. Bulk of livestock research likely to be contained
within MP3 Livestock and Fish
Opportunities for new synergy
Productivity plus tools for uptake and impact
Better focus?
MP4 Ag for Health & Nutrition however contains
significant animal health and food safety research,
growing area of demand
Livestock research component within Systems,
Policy/Markets, Water/Soil and Climate Change
New levels of interaction are apparent already
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