Potential Livestock Research Areas in ( LIVES) Project

1. Potential Livestock Research Areas in (LIVES) Project Azage Tegegne LIVES Research Planning Workshop March 26-28, 2013

2. Why research? • To create knowledge on project’s livestock interventions • To feed into the learning activities in the project areas. • To disseminate the knowledge for scaling out beyond the project areas.

3. Livestock research focus areas • Gaps in knowledge in proposed livestock value chain system in the 10 Zones • Value chain interventions (gender sensitive) • Extension (knowledge management, capacity development) interventions (gender sensitive)

4. Potential livestock research categories • Diagnostic research • Action research • Impact research (all gender sensitive with gender disaggregated data)

5. Diagnostic dairy research • Rapid assessment butter market channels and consumers • Assessment on-farm butter processing systems • Assessment fertility management dairy cows • Assessment feeding practices dairy animals in peri-urban and rural system • Assessment fluid milk/butter quality at different stages of the value chain • Rapid assessment/action planning communal grazing area development • Access to knowledge/skills development peri-urban and rural dairy production for male, female and youth farmers

6. Action research dairy • Innovation history of dairy value chain development • Cost benefit analysis of selected dairy production interventions in peri-urban and rural system • Studies on mass insemination program vis a vis other institutional approaches • Studies on communal grazing area development • Studies on forage seed multiplication system • Different institutional arrangements for dairy processing in peri-urban fluid milk system/rural butter system • Assessment dairy specific knowledge/capacity interventions, including dairy platforms

7. Diagnostic research small/large ruminants • Rapid assessment supply channels for fattening small and large ruminants • Assessment small ruminants diseases and mortality • Assessment feeding practices small and large ruminants at different growth stages • Rapid assessment/action planning communal grazing area development • Rapid assessment/action planning community based sheep breeding program • Assessment/action planning meat quality in local butcheries and abattoirs • Access to knowledge/skills development small/large ruminants production by male, female and youth

8. Action research small/large ruminants • Innovation history of small/large ruminants value chain development • Cost benefit analysis improved fattening small/large ruminants • Forage seed multiplication system (FTCs and private) • Studies on effectiveness community based sheep breeding programs • Studies on effectiveness thermo stable PPR distribution system • Studies on fattening specific knowledge/capacity interventions including fattening platforms

9. Diagnostic research poultry • Rapid assessment egg and poultry market channels/consumers • Assessment chicken diseases and mortality • Assessment feeding practices by peri-urban and rural poultry producers • Access to knowledge/skills development on poultry production by urban and peri-urban male, female and youth

10. Action research poultry • Innovation history of poultry value chain development • Cost benefit analysis poultry production interventions for peri-urban and rural poultry production • Studies on different institutional arrangements for pullet production system • Studies on different institutional arrangement for health service delivery • Studies on poultry specific knowledge/capacity interventions including poultry platforms

11. Diagnostic research apiculture • Rapid assessment of raw and clear honey market channels/consumers • Assessment bee colony supply channels and acquisition • Assessment bee feeding/sources over the year • Access to knowledge/skills development apiculture production by urban and peri-urban male, female and youth

12. Action research apiculture • Innovation history of apiculture value chain development • Cost benefit analysis apiculture production interventions • Studies on bee colony multiplication system • Studies on different institutional arrangements small scale honey processing • Studies on apiculture specific knowledge an capacity interventions, including apiculture platforms

13. Livestock impact research • Double difference and other studies • Dairy value chain • Small/large ruminants value chain • Poultry value chain • Apiculture value chain

14. Research outputs • Location specific and synthesized diagnostic findings • Location specific and synthesized livestock interventions • Location specific and synthesized livestock specific extension interventions • Location specific and synthesized livestock impact studies

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18. Prioritization research locations • Importance of a commodity between zones – based on number HHs involved • Importance of the commodity within a zone – based on number of HHs involved • Sites with high scores on both criteria considered first