From research outputs to development outcomes: Fostering innovation in pasto...ILRI
The document discusses fostering innovation in pastoralist systems through livestock development. It provides examples of the International Livestock Research Institute's (ILRI) work, including the Fodder Innovation Project in India and Nigeria. This project initially focused on technology transfer but evolved to build innovation capacity. The project worked with different partners in diverse livestock systems and contexts. This led to context-specific network building and emerging institutional arrangements. The document also discusses ILRI's approach to innovation systems and partnerships through projects like IPMS and smallholder dairy systems work in East Africa and South Asia.
IPMS experience sharing workshop: Cereals group reportILRI
During the recent (June 3-4, 2011) IPMS experience sharing workshop on market-oriented smallholder development, participants formed groups to discuss specific value chains. For each, the examined issues of targeting, production interventions, input supply interventions, processing and marketing, lessons learned and challenges. This slidecast has the audio report from the group to plenary.
Transforming smallholder pig value chains in VietnamILRI
This document outlines a vision and interventions to transform smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam in a sustainable way. It aims for a thriving pig sector that is environmentally friendly and benefits consumers. Key interventions include assessing pig disease burdens and developing feeding strategies using local resources to improve animal health and nutrition. Breeding programs and food safety assessments aim to upgrade systems while sustaining smallholder participation. Partnerships will develop capacity and technologies to increase productivity and income while reducing risks and meeting standards. The outcomes envision wider adoption of innovations, responsive market actors, expanded opportunities, and improved gender equity in the pig sector.
Ethiopia small ruminant value chain developmentILRI
This document outlines a plan to develop small ruminant value chains in Ethiopia. It identifies key stakeholders involved, including government ministries and agencies, NGOs, and research institutions. The plan's vision is for poor Ethiopians to enjoy increased production, income, and nutrition from sustainable small ruminant value chains by 2020. Major activities include identifying intervention areas, reviewing the small ruminant sector, developing value chain analysis tools, conducting rapid assessments, and prioritizing potential interventions.
Systems Analysis for Sustainable Innovation (SASI): A new flagship in the Li...ILRI
Presented by An Notenbaert (CIAT) at the Livestock and Fish Expert Workshop on Systems Analysis for Value Chain Transformation, Amsterdam, 19 November 2014
From research outputs to development outcomes: Fostering innovation in pasto...ILRI
The document discusses fostering innovation in pastoralist systems through livestock development. It provides examples of the International Livestock Research Institute's (ILRI) work, including the Fodder Innovation Project in India and Nigeria. This project initially focused on technology transfer but evolved to build innovation capacity. The project worked with different partners in diverse livestock systems and contexts. This led to context-specific network building and emerging institutional arrangements. The document also discusses ILRI's approach to innovation systems and partnerships through projects like IPMS and smallholder dairy systems work in East Africa and South Asia.
IPMS experience sharing workshop: Cereals group reportILRI
During the recent (June 3-4, 2011) IPMS experience sharing workshop on market-oriented smallholder development, participants formed groups to discuss specific value chains. For each, the examined issues of targeting, production interventions, input supply interventions, processing and marketing, lessons learned and challenges. This slidecast has the audio report from the group to plenary.
Transforming smallholder pig value chains in VietnamILRI
This document outlines a vision and interventions to transform smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam in a sustainable way. It aims for a thriving pig sector that is environmentally friendly and benefits consumers. Key interventions include assessing pig disease burdens and developing feeding strategies using local resources to improve animal health and nutrition. Breeding programs and food safety assessments aim to upgrade systems while sustaining smallholder participation. Partnerships will develop capacity and technologies to increase productivity and income while reducing risks and meeting standards. The outcomes envision wider adoption of innovations, responsive market actors, expanded opportunities, and improved gender equity in the pig sector.
Ethiopia small ruminant value chain developmentILRI
This document outlines a plan to develop small ruminant value chains in Ethiopia. It identifies key stakeholders involved, including government ministries and agencies, NGOs, and research institutions. The plan's vision is for poor Ethiopians to enjoy increased production, income, and nutrition from sustainable small ruminant value chains by 2020. Major activities include identifying intervention areas, reviewing the small ruminant sector, developing value chain analysis tools, conducting rapid assessments, and prioritizing potential interventions.
Systems Analysis for Sustainable Innovation (SASI): A new flagship in the Li...ILRI
Presented by An Notenbaert (CIAT) at the Livestock and Fish Expert Workshop on Systems Analysis for Value Chain Transformation, Amsterdam, 19 November 2014
India smallholder dairy value chain developmentILRI
This document summarizes research and development efforts related to improving the smallholder dairy value chain in India. It outlines key outputs such as methods for identifying opportunities to benefit smallholders through value chain upgrading. It also lists partners involved from public, private, and civil society organizations, with a focus on scaling approaches through innovation platforms. Milestones include identifying crop cultivars with superior residue quality and establishing feed and nutrition training modules. The overall goal is strengthening links between value chain actors to improve smallholder productivity, market access, and capacity development in the Indian dairy sector.
This document summarizes Tanzania's dairy value chain development efforts. It notes the rapid rise in milk demand, large productivity gaps, and opportunities for intensification that could benefit farmers through increased income and nutrition. Partnerships have been established between research institutions and NGOs to conduct analyses, innovation platforms, and pilot market hub interventions to link smallholder farmers to urban markets. The goal is to promote a more inclusive dairy sector and help marginalized groups participate successfully through targeted research and capacity building. Current projects focus on improving feeds, increasing milk production, and strengthening health, nutrition and data.
IPMS experience sharing workshop: Dairy group reportILRI
During the recent (June 3-4, 2011) IPMS experience sharing workshop on market-oriented smallholder development, participants formed groups to discuss specific value chains. For each, the examined issues of targeting, production interventions, input supply interventions, processing and marketing, lessons learned and challenges. This slidecast has the audio report from the group to plenary.
Animal health research to improve small ruminant productivity in Ethiopia ILRI
This document summarizes research being conducted by the International Livestock Research Institute to improve small ruminant productivity in Ethiopia. The research uses participatory methods to understand farmers' perspectives on disease constraints. It also conducts sero-surveys and literature reviews to identify key diseases and address knowledge gaps. The goal is to develop control programs, vaccines, diagnostic tools and business models to improve animal health services and tackle diseases such as contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, peste des petits ruminants, brucellosis and parasites affecting small ruminants.
Research Methodology Poster for research in Supply Chain Digital TwinsArwa Abougharib
Poster prepared for a post-graduate course titled ' ESM 600 - Research Methodology', summarizing the final research plan.
Program: Masters in Engineering Systems Management
Affiliation: American University of Sharjah, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering
ILRI program outline: Sustainable Livestock SystemsILRI
The ILRI program outline aims to contribute to productive and sustainable livestock systems through three main research themes: 1) Managing interactions between environmental change and livestock, 2) Proving intensification can be sustainable, and 3) Developing resilient livestock systems. The program strategy involves characterizing risks/benefits to livestock keepers, developing strategies to overcome constraints, and catalyzing adoption of solutions. Key activities include research on emissions/adaptation, sustainable intensification approaches, and building an enabling environment for wider uptake of strategies. The intended impacts are productive livestock despite future uncertainties, positive environmental benefits, and help for poor people to manage risks.
14th Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG)
on pro-poor livestock research and development
“Development of Livestock Value Chains through strengthened
Public-Private Cooperation”
sponsored by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
May 22-24, 2013, Berlin
Review of small ruminants value chain impact pathways developed for EthiopiaILRI
Presented by Barbara Rischkowsky (ICARDA) at the Livestock and Fish Small Ruminant Change Pathway Validation Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3-4 March 2015
Challenges of animal performance recording in low‐input systemsILRI
This document discusses the challenges of animal performance recording in low-input livestock systems. It outlines several key challenges: (1) No or inappropriate data recording systems that are too complex and demanding on farmers; (2) Weak institutional frameworks and lack of support systems for farmers; (3) Poor infrastructure like roads, power, and ICT; and (4) Cultural beliefs and low literacy levels that conflict with recording. However, the document notes that new technologies now offer opportunities to tackle these challenges through smart use of ICT, cheap sensors, and participatory community-based approaches.
Introducing the MilkIT project and its initial resultsILRI
The MilkIT project aims to enhance dairy livelihoods in India and Tanzania through improved feeding strategies and value chain development. It uses an innovation platform approach to bring together stakeholders like farmers, traders, processors and researchers. The objectives are to strengthen value chains, enhance productivity through improved feeding, and share knowledge on feed development. Partners include government and non-profit organizations. Emerging results include more milk sales, actor-market linkages, and better quality feed through interventions identified by innovation platforms. These include planting forages, establishing grazing reserves, and feed innovations in India like reduced waste and improved quality/quantity. Themes for further discussion center around using innovation platforms to identify solutions and linking technical and market interventions.
Sustainable intensification in livestock systems: where does feed fit?ILRI
This document discusses sustainable intensification in livestock systems and the role of feed. It notes that livestock systems are changing due to population growth, climate change, and global trade. Intensification can benefit smallholders but also poses risks. It emphasizes that feed must be considered as part of a larger system influenced by biophysical factors, input delivery, markets, competing livelihoods, and institutions. The document outlines push and pull factors and presents different strategies for assessing feed needs, identifying production niches, and linking feed to markets to support improved smallholder livestock enterprises and livelihoods.
This document outlines a framework for sustainable food value chains. It defines a sustainable food value chain as one that is profitable, provides broad social benefits, and has a neutral or positive environmental impact. It presents an analytical framework that considers the economic, social, and environmental impacts of food value chains. It also describes 10 guiding principles for developing sustainable food value chains, including that they should be economically sustainable, socially inclusive, environmentally green, and driven by a clear vision and strategy.
Some Reflections on Agricultural Innovation Systems Methodological FrameworkILRI
1. The document discusses a methodological framework for analyzing agricultural innovation systems using a six step approach.
2. The six steps include reviewing historical background, policy environment, key actors, functions of actors, competencies and habits, and linkages between actors.
3. The framework is meant to provide an inclusive analysis of the innovation process by considering the various actors, institutions, relationships, and interactions that influence innovation.
The document discusses the BecA Hub/ILRI Bioinformatics Platform. It provides the following key points:
1) The platform provides advanced computational capabilities in bioinformatics to scientists, and training in bioinformatics aspects.
2) It provides access to major sequence databases, specialized software, and sophisticated data analysis capabilities.
3) The platform is used for various projects related to crop improvement, vaccine and diagnostic development, and bioinformatics capacity building.
India smallholder dairy value chain developmentILRI
This document summarizes research and development efforts related to improving the smallholder dairy value chain in India. It outlines key outputs such as methods for identifying opportunities to benefit smallholders through value chain upgrading. It also lists partners involved from public, private, and civil society organizations, with a focus on scaling approaches through innovation platforms. Milestones include identifying crop cultivars with superior residue quality and establishing feed and nutrition training modules. The overall goal is strengthening links between value chain actors to improve smallholder productivity, market access, and capacity development in the Indian dairy sector.
This document summarizes Tanzania's dairy value chain development efforts. It notes the rapid rise in milk demand, large productivity gaps, and opportunities for intensification that could benefit farmers through increased income and nutrition. Partnerships have been established between research institutions and NGOs to conduct analyses, innovation platforms, and pilot market hub interventions to link smallholder farmers to urban markets. The goal is to promote a more inclusive dairy sector and help marginalized groups participate successfully through targeted research and capacity building. Current projects focus on improving feeds, increasing milk production, and strengthening health, nutrition and data.
IPMS experience sharing workshop: Dairy group reportILRI
During the recent (June 3-4, 2011) IPMS experience sharing workshop on market-oriented smallholder development, participants formed groups to discuss specific value chains. For each, the examined issues of targeting, production interventions, input supply interventions, processing and marketing, lessons learned and challenges. This slidecast has the audio report from the group to plenary.
Animal health research to improve small ruminant productivity in Ethiopia ILRI
This document summarizes research being conducted by the International Livestock Research Institute to improve small ruminant productivity in Ethiopia. The research uses participatory methods to understand farmers' perspectives on disease constraints. It also conducts sero-surveys and literature reviews to identify key diseases and address knowledge gaps. The goal is to develop control programs, vaccines, diagnostic tools and business models to improve animal health services and tackle diseases such as contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, peste des petits ruminants, brucellosis and parasites affecting small ruminants.
Research Methodology Poster for research in Supply Chain Digital TwinsArwa Abougharib
Poster prepared for a post-graduate course titled ' ESM 600 - Research Methodology', summarizing the final research plan.
Program: Masters in Engineering Systems Management
Affiliation: American University of Sharjah, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering
ILRI program outline: Sustainable Livestock SystemsILRI
The ILRI program outline aims to contribute to productive and sustainable livestock systems through three main research themes: 1) Managing interactions between environmental change and livestock, 2) Proving intensification can be sustainable, and 3) Developing resilient livestock systems. The program strategy involves characterizing risks/benefits to livestock keepers, developing strategies to overcome constraints, and catalyzing adoption of solutions. Key activities include research on emissions/adaptation, sustainable intensification approaches, and building an enabling environment for wider uptake of strategies. The intended impacts are productive livestock despite future uncertainties, positive environmental benefits, and help for poor people to manage risks.
14th Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG)
on pro-poor livestock research and development
“Development of Livestock Value Chains through strengthened
Public-Private Cooperation”
sponsored by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
May 22-24, 2013, Berlin
Review of small ruminants value chain impact pathways developed for EthiopiaILRI
Presented by Barbara Rischkowsky (ICARDA) at the Livestock and Fish Small Ruminant Change Pathway Validation Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3-4 March 2015
Challenges of animal performance recording in low‐input systemsILRI
This document discusses the challenges of animal performance recording in low-input livestock systems. It outlines several key challenges: (1) No or inappropriate data recording systems that are too complex and demanding on farmers; (2) Weak institutional frameworks and lack of support systems for farmers; (3) Poor infrastructure like roads, power, and ICT; and (4) Cultural beliefs and low literacy levels that conflict with recording. However, the document notes that new technologies now offer opportunities to tackle these challenges through smart use of ICT, cheap sensors, and participatory community-based approaches.
Introducing the MilkIT project and its initial resultsILRI
The MilkIT project aims to enhance dairy livelihoods in India and Tanzania through improved feeding strategies and value chain development. It uses an innovation platform approach to bring together stakeholders like farmers, traders, processors and researchers. The objectives are to strengthen value chains, enhance productivity through improved feeding, and share knowledge on feed development. Partners include government and non-profit organizations. Emerging results include more milk sales, actor-market linkages, and better quality feed through interventions identified by innovation platforms. These include planting forages, establishing grazing reserves, and feed innovations in India like reduced waste and improved quality/quantity. Themes for further discussion center around using innovation platforms to identify solutions and linking technical and market interventions.
Sustainable intensification in livestock systems: where does feed fit?ILRI
This document discusses sustainable intensification in livestock systems and the role of feed. It notes that livestock systems are changing due to population growth, climate change, and global trade. Intensification can benefit smallholders but also poses risks. It emphasizes that feed must be considered as part of a larger system influenced by biophysical factors, input delivery, markets, competing livelihoods, and institutions. The document outlines push and pull factors and presents different strategies for assessing feed needs, identifying production niches, and linking feed to markets to support improved smallholder livestock enterprises and livelihoods.
This document outlines a framework for sustainable food value chains. It defines a sustainable food value chain as one that is profitable, provides broad social benefits, and has a neutral or positive environmental impact. It presents an analytical framework that considers the economic, social, and environmental impacts of food value chains. It also describes 10 guiding principles for developing sustainable food value chains, including that they should be economically sustainable, socially inclusive, environmentally green, and driven by a clear vision and strategy.
Some Reflections on Agricultural Innovation Systems Methodological FrameworkILRI
1. The document discusses a methodological framework for analyzing agricultural innovation systems using a six step approach.
2. The six steps include reviewing historical background, policy environment, key actors, functions of actors, competencies and habits, and linkages between actors.
3. The framework is meant to provide an inclusive analysis of the innovation process by considering the various actors, institutions, relationships, and interactions that influence innovation.
The document discusses the BecA Hub/ILRI Bioinformatics Platform. It provides the following key points:
1) The platform provides advanced computational capabilities in bioinformatics to scientists, and training in bioinformatics aspects.
2) It provides access to major sequence databases, specialized software, and sophisticated data analysis capabilities.
3) The platform is used for various projects related to crop improvement, vaccine and diagnostic development, and bioinformatics capacity building.
Resilience: concepts & implications for CG-wide research collaborationILRI
A presentation by L. German, D. Merrey and N. Johnson at the Workshop on Dealing with Drivers of Rapid Change in Africa: Integration of Lessons from Long-term Research on INRM, ILRI, Nairobi, June 12-13, 2008.
Shaping a new CGIAR Mega Program on Livestock and FishILRI
The document proposes a new mega program focused on sustainably increasing productivity and consumption of livestock and fish in developing countries. It would do this by targeting interventions in select high-potential value chains through partnerships between research, development, and private sector actors. The goal is to generate measurable local impact, facilitate regional scaling, and produce technologies and learnings applicable more widely to benefit international development efforts. Key questions raised include whether this focus area and approach can achieve impact at scale, attract necessary partnerships, and balance local and global benefits.
Designing community based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of ...ILRI
Presented by Temesgen Jembere at the ICARDA-ILRI-BOKU project workshop on Designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, October 29, 2010.
IPMS experiences on research for dairy development: Approaches and lessons ILRI
Presentation by Dirk Hoekstra, Azage Tegegne, Berhanu Gebremedhin and Tesfaye Lemma at the National dairy forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-24 November 2010.
Multi-stakeholder platforms strengthening the selection and use of fodder opt...ILRI
Presentation by Ergano, K., A. Duncan, A. Adie, A. Tedla, G. Woldewahid, Z. Ayele, G. Berhanu and N. Alemayehu (ILRI)
to the Ethiopian Fodder Roundtable on Effective Delivery of Input Services to Livestock Development, Addis Ababa, 22 June 2010
Value chains, innovation systems and action research: From principles to pra...ILRI
The document discusses new approaches to livestock development that focus on building innovation platforms to encourage collaboration between stakeholders. It emphasizes an innovation systems perspective that views innovation as an outcome of interactions between actors rather than just the product of research. The case study describes establishing a stakeholder platform in Ada'a, Ethiopia to identify constraints, test fodder options, and facilitate collaboration to develop dairy farming. Monitoring focused on tracking process indicators and learning lessons to improve performance and stakeholder engagement.
Multi-stakeholder platforms strengthening selection and use of fodder technol...ILRI
A presentation prepared by Ergano, K.; Duncan, A.; Adie, A.; Tedla, A.; Woldewahid, G.; Ayele, Z.; Berhanu, G. and Alemayehu, N. for the International Conference on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food, Montpellier, 28 June-3 July, 2010.
Improving #PHM & its impact on food security & nutrition requires a strong collaboration among different stakeholders in the Value Chain, by Leonides Halos-Kim from
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Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increasing use of fod...ILRI
This document summarizes activities from the Fodder Adoption Project (FAP) in Ethiopia. It describes how FAP established multi-stakeholder platforms at four sites to introduce fodder technologies and strengthen networks. Over time, farmer adoption of fodder planting increased significantly. FAP also conducted analyses of innovation systems, markets, and stakeholders to identify gaps and opportunities. Key lessons were the need to combine technical options with focus on stakeholder collaboration, and to allow discussions to expand beyond the initial topic of fodder adoption.
Opening access to information and knowledge in African agricultural S&Tiaaldafrika
Presentation made at the Second Conference of the IAALD Africa Chapter on the theme "Towards Opening Access to Information & Knowledge in the Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Africa" held at M Plaza Hotel, Accra, Ghana, 15th - 17th July 2009.
This document discusses public-private partnerships (PPPs) in agricultural development in Africa. It notes that PPPs can help increase productivity but challenges remain in ensuring small farmers benefit, such as equitable access to technologies and markets. The roles of the private sector are changing as it encompasses many services like inputs, markets, and financing. Balancing intellectual property rights with farmers' rights is important. Overall, PPPs must truly understand development objectives and find ways to empower smallholders and women farmers to participate in and benefit from agricultural innovation.
Innovation in plant breeding is imperative to meet the growing demand for staple food crops in developing countries. Modernizing breeding was therefore a major objective of the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP, http://www.generationcp.org). In this endeavor,the GCP createdthe Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP, https://www.integratedbreeding.net),to provide breeding material,knowledge and tools to assist researchers in their work,including custom-built software forreliable data management – the Breeding Management System (BMS Pro).These activities were sustained mainly through funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,which ended this last September after 10 years of direct collaboration. The IBP has proven to be agile, adaptable and bold over the years, and is now applying the same spirit and resolve to find revenue from both public and private sources to continue serving its broad basis of stakeholders, among which national programs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remainfront and center. BMS Pro – a professional-grade software package distributed through LAN or cloud – is being used by close to 700 users in over 30 organizations of different types around the world (17 in SSA). We have learned that digitizing breeding is less about technology than it is about changing mindsets;it requires proper support on the ground,and thatmanagement commits to empower adoption within institutions. Although there is still some way to go before reaching routine adoption, a solid basis has been established and continues to be supported by a new generation of African breeders.Breeding digitization in Africa is well underway.
Farmer-managed innovation funds are being piloted in several countries to give smallholder farmers more control over agricultural research and development funding. These funds allow farmers to submit proposals for experiments and learning activities that address local priorities. Farmers then manage the selection process and oversee the funded activities. Evaluations show these funds have strengthened farmer organizations, increased farmer engagement in innovation, and stimulated interest from development organizations in supporting farmer-led research. However, fully implementing and scaling up such funds requires ongoing testing and efforts to engage more advisory services and scientists.
Africa imperatively needs to increase food and nutritional security to serve a growing population and reduce food importation costs (currently estimated at US$ 35 billion/year). There is considerable potential to raise agricultural productivity through the development of improved cultivars that lift yields, and respond to both local and global market demands. However, and despite decades of major investment in R4D, the impact in farmers’ field remains limited, especially for subsistence crops. Farmers still have difficulty accessing water, fertilizers and phytosanitary products, amongst others, and seed quality and distribution are a major bottleneck in most places. Even if improved germplasm with large genetic potential is available, it often lacks critical or specific local characteristics, or only performs well under optimal conditions. In the African context, some links of the crop value chain are either broken or missing, and only an integrated approach – from crop diversity to production in the field – can have a sustainable impact on agricultural productivity. Improvement toward sustainable change will include the implementation of a demand-led breeding practice, that is based on modern technologies aligned with local reality, and supported by a strong capacity development component (human and infrastructure). Stimulating entrepreneurial spirit to implement local/regional businesses at strategic points down the chain is also a must to succeed. The case for this vision builds on examples and lessons learnt from the Generation Challenge Programme and the Integrated Breeding Platform, after working in R4D, with and for African partners, for more than 15 years.
TL III Genetic Gains program improvement plan_ICRISAT_Chickpea ESATropical Legumes III
This document outlines plans to improve chickpea production in Ethiopia through 2030. It proposes increasing annual chickpea production from 458,682 metric tons to 690,000 metric tons and yield from 1,913 kg/ha to 2,800 kg/ha through developing improved varieties, expanding seeded area, and adopting better agronomic practices. Key interventions include developing varieties resistant to major diseases and tolerant of drought, improving seed systems, promoting mechanization, and strengthening support for farmers. The plans aim to enhance breeding programs, optimize varietal development pipelines, and implement product advancement and market strategies to disseminate new varieties effectively.
The Global Research Program aims to enable transformations in agricultural and food systems by improving policies, facilitating innovations, strengthening markets, and increasing capacity development. It focuses on areas like climate-smart agriculture, nutrition-sensitive value chains, entrepreneurship, monitoring and evaluation, and open data. Key activities include analyzing technology adoption and impacts, understanding gender and youth issues, developing smart foods from millets and pulses, and supporting agribusiness. The program has six research clusters and works with various partners, funders, and through its Dryland Academy to achieve these goals.
This document discusses the need for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in agriculture in Bihar, India. It notes that agriculture is facing challenges from globalization, changing consumer preferences, and other factors. There has been a shift from staple crops to higher-value crops and more focus on entire food supply chains and rural development. PPPs are seen as crucial for improving access to new technologies, research, infrastructure, markets and financing. The roles of government, private sector and civil society in partnerships need clarification. PPPs could benefit farmers through better seeds, extension services, yields and market access. Areas of potential corporate involvement include contract farming and ensuring supply and marketing chains. Success will depend on addressing issues like
The EY-P food and agribusiness team brings together expertise across key trends shaping the industry. They have strong industry links and experience across sectors like agrochemicals, digital agriculture, and sustainability. EY-P engages with clients across the entire food value chain from production to consumption. They utilize a future-back approach to help clients reimagine their business models and position themselves for future opportunities and challenges.
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A training, certification and marketing scheme for informal dairy vendors in ...ILRI
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Milk safety and child nutrition impacts of the MoreMilk training, certificati...ILRI
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Preventing the next pandemic: a 12-slide primer on emerging zoonotic diseasesILRI
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Preventing preventable diseases: a 12-slide primer on foodborne diseaseILRI
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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
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Reservoirs of pathogenic Leptospira species in UgandaILRI
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DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
Using stakeholder platforms to enhance local innovations in the livestock sector in Ethiopia: Some Lessons
1. Using stakeholder platforms to enhance local innovations in the livestock sector in Ethiopia: Some Lessons Kebebe Ergano and Alan Duncan FAP Symposium on Feed in Smallholder Systems LuangPrabang, Laos, 18-19 November 2010
2. Key Issues Poor livestock productivity and feed scarcity as key constraint Protracted dilemma of shelving technologies vs impact Many leading aggie scientists believe agricultural development is a question of developing technologies and pushing them out to farmers However, there is huge gap b/n high potential of agricultural technology generated by research and farmers’ productivity and livelihood Forage/livestock development challenges are ‘complex’ that no single person or organization acting alone can tackle the issue effectively Forage/livestock development depends on many things working together across the agricultural system
14. Use of Stakeholder Platforms shows promise Use of improved forages is expanding Forage expanding from 400 pilot farmers to 1000’s of farmers Links between private forage seeds enterprises and farmers improving Dairy cooperative established and strengthened Stakeholder platform facilitation institutionalised Partners in the innovation process aredealing with constraints along dairy value chain through innovation platforms
15. Successes are context specific Successful forage/livestock innovation at Ada’a Fertile land and good rainfall Good market access/market orientation Diverse stakeholders Limited innovation at Alamata Unreliable rainfall Few and less diverse actors Far away from major market centers Less market orientation
16. Essential elements for successful platforms process Joint situation analysis, problem diagnosis, needs and opportunities assessment Experimenting with technology options Convening agency to establish and facilitate innovation platforms Pragmatism to adapt to changing circumstances and uncertainty Institutionalization and scaling up M&E of the process
17. Gaps Self organizing v orchestrated Institutional vacuum to finance and convene stakeholder platforms What if there is no quick win technology to pilot? Balancing concrete action and social learning process Sequence of concrete action ->Platform or otherwise Sustaining platforms or the culture of working in partnerships? Difficulty in articulating outputs, outcomes and impacts Development is about behaviour and capacity-> improving behavioural processes and capacities as outcomes
18. Key messages Success in innovation research is attributed to BOTHconcerted action process and social learning process Stakeholder platforms can foster innovation where market access is good and the range of actors is reasonably broad External resource needed at initial stage More success innovation stories needed to showcase and bring policy change Innovation processes takes longer than regular tech transfer