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Generating evidence to support enhanced traditional dairying in Northeast India

Background Millions of small-scale farmers, many of them women, supply the surging demand for animal source foods generating huge benefits to their livelihoods and family nutrition. India is presently the largest milk producer in the world: 75% of rural households have bovines, 60% of dairy animals...

Completed

Jan 2012Dec 2013

Catalysing the emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda to increase rural incomes and assets

Objectives To identify market opportunities for pork in Uganda and the multiple factors preventing smallholder pig producers from exploiting those opportunities, with a focus on constraints such as animal diseases, scarce feed resources and poor performance of markets and services. To develop and...

Jan 2013Mar 2018

Livestock and irrigation value chains for Ethiopian smallholders (LIVES)

Goal To contribute to enhanced income and gender equitable wealth creation for smallholders and other value chain actors through increased and sustained market offtake of high-value livestock and irrigated crop commodities. Purpose To improve competitiveness, sustainability and equity in value...

Jan 2012Dec 2016

Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value chains in Tanzania

Goal and outcomes The project aims to achieve inclusive growth and reduced poverty and vulnerability among people with dairy-dependent livelihoods in selected rural areas in Tanzania. Rural poor are expected to secure more income through enhanced access to demand-led dairy market business services...

Jan 2012Dec 2013

Evaluating the impacts of livestock and aquaculture microcredit and value chain programs on women’s empowerment

Project activities Evaluating and documenting case studies of the impacts of livestock and aquaculture financing, value chains and livelihood projects on poverty and equity outcomes. Sharing information on livelihood approaches that integrate women’s rights. Developing strategies and building...

Active

Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development approaches

The overall goal of the project is to contribute to improved dairy-derived livelihoods in India and Tanzania via intensification of smallholder production focusing on enhancement of feeds and feeding using innovation and value chain approaches. The objectives of the project are three-fold:...

Completed

Jun 2010Jun 2013

Small ruminant value chains as platforms for reducing poverty and increasing food security in dryland areas of India and Mozambique

The main target groups in India and Mozambique are poor small ruminant (mainly goat) keepers, especially women, in arid and semi-arid areas. This includes small-scale agro-pastoralists who cultivate small plots of land, as well as the landless. In both cases, a high degree of dependence on common property resources is a key feature.

Jun 2009Dec 2011

Securing women’s access to livestock assets and income in Kenya and Mozambique

Project Goals and Objectives The goal of the project is to improve and secure women’s access to livestock assets and control over income and products derived from them, in the face of increasing commercialization and formalization of livestock value chains Project Objectives i. Better...

Dec 2005Feb 2007

Comprehensive study of the dairy sector in Assam, India

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES To understand the smallholder dairy production and distribution systems to develop a pro-poor dairy development plan. To identify farm-level constraints to increased milk production and productivity, and potential interventions that will address these constraints. To study the...

Completed

Marketing, processing and value-adding of camel milk and meat products in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Establish current knowledge on marketing of camel milk and meat products. Identify market channels and consumer preference for camel milk and meat products. Obtain market knowledge of viable alternative camel milk and meat market mechanisms and their constraints. Identify and...

Jan 2007Dec 2012

Livestock, Livelihoods and Markets

OBJECTIVES The project objectives are to: improve market participation of small-scale goat and cattle keepers in semi-arid regions of Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe; evaluate constraints to and opportunities for commercialization of smallholder production of goats and cattle; test and evaluate...

Completed

Knowledge to action: Enhancing traditional dairy value chains in Assam, India

These knowledge and policy inputs will help fill gaps identified in a recent comprehensive study carried out by ILRI and partners, where organized marketing of milk in Assam was found to be relatively insignificant and traditional (or informal) markets for fresh liquid milk and dairy products...