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Reflections from LIVES baseline survey July – September, 2012: Impressions...
By LIVES baseline team Metarobi district/ ILRI/ Fanos Mekonnen Livestock and Irrigated Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project funded by the Canadian International Development aid and...
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No feed, no livestock: Workshop underlines importance of Ethiopia’s feed...
Forage development and utilization for fattening – Bure, Ethiopia ILRI/IPMS Global trends of population growth, urbanization and modernization have created changes in consumption patterns that incline...
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Ethiopian farmers to get market boost: LIVES project launched today
Our research for development project is launched today by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), both members of the CGIAR...
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LIVES partners set out priorities and value chain interventions to support...
Last week, some 50 people involved in the the LIVES project (Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders) met to plan project interventions in commodity value chain development....
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LIVES research planning workshop scheduled for end of March 2013
As the big chunk of the LIVES project is action research, it will convene a research planning workshop from 26-28 March 2013. This workshop is expected to substantiate the overall research framework...
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LIVES research partners set out research priorities and areas of work for the...
In March, some 75 people from national and international research institutes and governmental agencies joined the research planning workshop of the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian...
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LIVES brings mango and butter tasting to ILRI’s annual meeting
ILRI held its 2013 annual program meeting (APM) at its Addis Ababa campus in May 2013. The LIVES project took part in the ‘sharefair’ and scientific poster sessions bringing in-season mango and local...
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An Ethiopian dairy cooperative with untapped potential – Biruh Tesfa, Addis Alem
In a recent field visit to Ejere district, one of LIVES sites in West Shoa, Dirk Hoekstra came across the Biruh Tesfa Dairy Cooperative, about 4 km from Addis Alem town. Although it is difficult to...
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LIVES program of work for April 2013- March 2014
April 2013 to March 2014 will be a year of many firsts for the LIVES project. Now that most staff have been recruited and the activities in capacity development, knowledge management, promotion, value...
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LIVES regional and zonal offices operational, space for knowledge centers...
While planning the interventions and action plans for Year 2, the regional and zonal teams also working on acquiring office space in the regional research institutes and the bureaus of...
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Livestock, value chains, growth: LIVES sponsors 21st Ethiopian animal...
The annual conference of Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP) was held for the 21st time at the headquarters of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) from August 28-30 The...
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LIVES and IWMI teams investigate irrigation value chains in northern Ethiopia
A team of three researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) recently joined a LIVES field mission in Tigray and Amhara regions. The team set out to familiarize the IWMI and...
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Seeing is believing: Field visit reveals benefits of value chain approaches...
Sidama is one of the two targeted zones of LIVES in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR). In this zone, three districts have been selected by LIVES for value chain...
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World school milk day celebrated in Ethiopia’s Oromia region
October 8, 2013 was a lively day in one elementary school in Sululta town near Addis Ababa. The Oromia Livestock and Health Development Agency, together with the LIVES project, SNV and Plan...
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Why are calving intervals so long in Ethiopia?
From various baseline surveys and studies, it appears that calving intervals of dairy cows in Ethiopia are often 2 years and over (they are far shorter in other countries). Why is this and what can be...
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Agricultural knowledge centres facilitate agricultural learning and sharing...
Bensa district, one of the LIVES project sites in Sidama zone is constructing a new building to be an agricultural knowledge centre (AKC). The decision to build a centre emerged from a visit to Dale...
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Banana cooperative powers Kenya farming
The LIVES project team and steering committee members recently traveled to Kenya see what they could learn from Kenya’s well-developed small scale horticulture and dairy industries. The group...
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The private sector in horticulture and livestock: What Ethiopia could learn...
The traveling workshop to Kenya by the LIVES steering committee in early October brought many insights related to horticulture and livestock. These sectors are more advanced in Kenya than Ethiopia and...
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Why don’t farmers use locally-available feed resources? Some IPMS reflections...
In a visit LIVES team to Tanzania, we came across a farming system which included crops and livestock components: rice, sunflower, dairy and meat cattle. There are also sunflower oil processors and...
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Ethiopian monastery illustrates multifaceted benefits of integrated livestock...
The Estephanos Monastery is on an island in Lake Haik, part of Tehuledere district in South Wollo where LIVES has one of its project sites. The first church was built in 862 AD; in 1262 AD a...
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