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Senegal Dairy Genetics project: Work package 2 update

Senegal Dairy Genetics project: Work package 2 update. Karen Marshall FoodAfrica annual workshop, Kampala, Uganda 27-28 January 2014. Work package partners & objectives. ILRI, EISMV, HU, MTT, project farmers

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Senegal Dairy Genetics project: Work package 2 update

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  1. Senegal Dairy Genetics project:Work package 2 update Karen Marshall FoodAfrica annual workshop, Kampala, Uganda 27-28 January 2014

  2. Work package partners & objectives ILRI, EISMV, HU, MTT, project farmers To identify and promote utilisation of the most appropriate dairy breed-types for more productive and profitable dairy enterprises in selected production systems in Senegal

  3. Major activities 2013 1. Breed comparison • Socio-economic study: gendered • Major field component, 18 month monitoring • Breed-type determined through genetic analysis • 2 sites: region of Thies and department of Mbacké (Touba) 2. Analysis of policies on dairy, particularly germplasm production and delivery systems 3. Capacity building

  4. Breed comparison: project sites

  5. Breed comparison: initiation • Field staff recruitment: 2 female and 4 male, mobilised by motorbikes • (due to cultural / religious reasons could not place female staff at Touba) Activities January to April 2013 • Project sensitization in sites • Survey to identify suitable dairy households: 623 households surveyed,288 identified as suitable • (difficult to locate households as no complete list; lower number of cross-breeds than expected) • Recruitment of 259 dairy households into project: individual visits plus small group workshops; given project leaflet and signed consent • Project launch events (n=3): 135 male and 74 female participants, as individual dairy farmers and 11 organisations

  6. Project field staff Thies site Touba site CélestinMuyeneza (MSc in animal production, University of Dakar) Mamadou Lo (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Dakar) NdeyeRackyNdiaye (MSc in population genetics, University of Dakar) Elhadji Sow (final year DVM, University of Dakar) MameDiaraNdiaye (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Dakar) Sene Moudou (Diploma of Livestock Production, CNFTEIA, St Louis)

  7. Farmer sensitisation activities

  8. Project launch events National & site level launch at Thies Ministers representative Site level launch at Touba

  9. Breed comparison: socio-economic data Activities April to December 2013

  10. Ear tags Project animals number 3100 with 670 lactating females, 105 different breed-types (Dec 2013)

  11. Field staff working with project dairy farmers

  12. Type of information collected on dairy households Continual recording for 18 month+ period

  13. Example survey table Gendered information on all costs + benefits

  14. Milk measuring

  15. Breed comparison: other data Activities June to December 2013

  16. Milk quality

  17. Weights and body measurements

  18. … but not always so easy

  19. DNA samples

  20. Preliminary SNP analysis results 104 animals: clusters represent the different breed-types

  21. Management of field data Data mana Data collation, data checking, back-up MySQL database Each field staff enters own survey data into CSPRO data entry interface Project database manager, in Senegal Farmer reports User access Recollection of missing / erroneous data

  22. Policy analysis • Generated via desk-top review combined with key informant interviews (in progress)

  23. Capacity building: project farmers Use of recording sheets, milk measurements Domestic biogas, with Heifer International Senegal • 9 training events • 146 female and 366 male farmers Farmer biogas training

  24. Capacity building: field staff Survey implementation + data -entry • 4 training events of 5 days • Trained by ILRI and EISMV staff Professor Missohou from EISMV supporting training of field staff

  25. Capacity building: students

  26. Main challenges 2013 • Unable to establish ILRI hosting arrangement in Senegal • High number of project activities (to compensate for time lost due to project relocation) • Large volume of project data … but excellent project team (n=23) & project partner relations

  27. 2014 work-plan • Completion of field-work (longitudinal surveys + DNA sampling) • Analysis of survey data • Household clustering • Breed assignment to individual animals + clustering • Estimate of cost & benefits for each breed x household cluster (dependant on group size) • Socio-economic breed comparison • Further farmer trainings combined with feedback workshops • Policy and value-chain analysis • Support to project students • Additional activities e.g. aflatoxin & brucellosis testing, feed analysis

  28. FoodAfrica supervisory board visit to project site http://senegaldairy.wordpress.com/

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