Expectations and synergies with the CGIAR Livestock and Fish Research Program

1. Expectations and synergies with the CGIAR Livestock and Fish Research Program

2. TheGoal: Moremilk, meat and fish by and for the poor • To sustainably increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems • To increase the availability and affordability of animal-source foods for poor consumers and, • To reduce poverty through greater participation by the poor along the whole value chains for animal-source foods.

3. The approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact We propose an integrated value-chain approach for focused impact . . . R4D integrated to transform selected value chains for selected commodities in selected countries. Value chain development team + research partners Consumers

4. Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact • . . . combined with strategic cross-cutting platforms for scaling out. R4D integrated to transform selected value chains for selected commodities in selected countries. Major intervention with development partners Value chain development team + research partners • Strategic CRP 3.7 Cross-cutting Platforms • Technology Generation • Market Innovation • Targeting & Impact Consumers INTERVENTIONS TO SCALE OUT REGIONALLY GLOBAL RESEARCH PUBLIC GOODS

5. Delivering CRP3.7 Livestock + Fish Structure: Integrated research themes Targeting, Gender, Impact assessment Value chain development Technology Development: − Genetics − Feeds − Health Commodity X in Country Y Cross-cutting: M&E, communications, capacity building Consumers

6. FOCUS: 9 Target Value Chains in 8 countries SHEEP & GOATS AQUACULTURE PIGS DAIRY

7. Criteria and rationale for choosing the commodities and countries • Growth and market opportunity • Huge and increasing demand for the commodity • High potential to raise productivity and off-take rate in smallholder flocks • Pro-poor potential • High number of poor smallholders and value chain actors involved in production • Good income opportunity for women headed households • Researchable supply constraints • Shortage and fluctuation of feed supply • Poor animal hygiene and diseases (high lamb/kid mortality) • Lack of sustainable organizational structures for breeder and producer groups • Poor market infrastructure and institutional arrangements

8. Expected outputs from VCD in L&F • Framework for situational analysis of the respective sectors • Generic tools for rapid and in-depth VCA developed and tested for 3 commodities (dairy cattle, small ruminants and pigs) • Tools for rapid integrated assessment of food safety and nutrition (in collaboration with CRP 4 Animal Health and Nutrition) • Strategies for partnership development and involvement – innovation systems/platforms • Strategies for outscaling developed (based on partnerships, targeting and impact assessment)

9. Expected outputs from Technology Development • Open access databases (NIRS equations, feeds, successes and failures in technology development, AnGR) • Tools for rapid assessment of feeding systems and feed intervention screening (FEAST and TechFit) • Diagnostic toolkit for animal diseases • Demand-driven solutions for feeding, breeding and animal health constraints identified in the VCs • Vaccine development (PPR success story) • Insights in genetics of adaptation (long-term)

10. Tanzania Dairy Cattle VC outputs in 2012 • Formation of the Dairy Development Forum • an informal mechanism for vertical coordination of field activities and co-creating solutions at national and milk-shed levels • membership across all key public and private sector players in the dairy sector. • Situational analysis report establishing a baseline for the sector • Tools developed to identify potential interventions for improved dairy value chain performance • Review of past successes and failures in dairy development interventions • Potential interventions best bets for improved VC performance

11. Ethiopia Sheep and goat VC outputs • Toolkit for rapid VCA for sheep and goat in Ethiopia • By mid April 2013 for seven sheep and goat VC sites: • Site descriptions, rapid VCA reports, draft intervention plans • Cross-cutting research issues identified and prioritized • Process of partnership development with different stakeholders • Pilot breeding programs for smallholders developed and implemented • Feeding system assessments and feed intervention screening tested at two sites

12. Selected sheep and goat VC sites in Ethiopia

13. Identified constraints in Atsbi sheep • Lack of awareness and skills on improved sheep production practices • Feed shortage in quality and quantity and lack of planting material and forage seeds • Unidentified and high incidence of disease and parasites • Shortage of  Animal health service delivery (drug supply, service availability, skills) • Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers (missing linkage among producers and with other actors) • Seasonality of supply of sheep • Lack of supply of quality sheep: low dressing percentage, red offal often condemned due to disease and parasites

14. Expectations from LIVES (synergies) • Joint research and intervention plans for shared sites (Atsbi sheep VC) • Joint learning across sites for sheep and goat value chains in Ethiopia and dairy cattle VC across countries (including IPMS results) • Outscaling of successful interventions developed by L & F • Joint development of technical training courses related to action research • Dialogue on pathways to impact • Joint Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems • Joint development of Communication strategies

15. Thank you very much!