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Private entreprises improve concentrate livestock feed supply in southern...
Yoseph Mekasha, Tadiwos Zewdie, Tesfaye Shewage, Tesfaye Dubale, Birhanu Biazen and Dirk Hoekstra Lack of access to commercial concentrate feed supply and inadequate knowledge on the use are among the...
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Working paper on risks in smallholder irrigated systems in Ethiopia
This working paper by the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) Project and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) presents results from an analysis of...
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Can we plan, initiate or facilitate scaling out and up?
by Dirk Hoekstra, Yigza Dessalegn, Worku Teka and Beamlak Tesfaye Banana ripening house in Gondar town (photo credit: ILRI\Dirk Hoekstra). In a recent field visit, we came across two interesting...
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LIVES market-oriented extension and value chain development training expands...
by Berhanu Gebremedhin, Dereje Legesse and Birhanu Biazin Germame Garuma, deputy head of the SNNPR Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the ToT workshop (photo credit: ILRI\Yoseph Mekasha)....
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Azage Tegegne reflects on the work of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural...
By Azage Tegegne This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). In this post, Azage Tegegne, leader of the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for...
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Canadian partners visit LIVES project sites in Sidama
A visit to a vegetable farm in Sidama (photo credit:ILRI\Yoseph Mekasha) A high-level Canadian delegation visited the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Livestock and Irrigation Value...
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LIVES-introduced cow pregnancy diagnosis kit now used in Tigray
Pregnancy diagnosis kit demonstration in Saesi Tsaeda Emba District, Tigray (photo credit:ILRI\Solomon Gizaw). One of the hurdles in delivering artificial insemination (AI) to improve the dairy...
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Factors determining household market participation in small ruminant...
Small ruminants, which account for more than half of the domesticated ruminants in the world, are an important component of the farming systems in most developing countries. Despite their economic and...
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Oestrus synchronization for accelerated delivery of improved dairy genetics...
Oestrous synchronization is the manipulation of the oestrous cycle or induction of oestrus to bring a large percentage of a group of females cattle into oestrus at a short, predetermined time. The...
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Analysis of village poultry value chain in Ethiopia: Implications for action...
This study aimed at developing a baseline understanding of producers, use of inputs, production performance, marketing, institutional and infrastructural environment and support services in order to...
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Classification of small ruminant production sub-systems in Ethiopia
Part I of this working paper classifies small ruminant sub-systems in the mixed crop livestock system in Ethiopia. In Part II, important determinants of small ruminant productivity and producers’ input...
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Feed resources availability, utilization and marketing in central and eastern...
This survey explored the situation of different feed resources for ruminant livestock in two zones (central and eastern) in Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. These two zones account for the region’s...
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Review of animal health service delivery in mixed crop-livestock systems in...
This paper reviews the animal health services in rural areas in the highlands of Ethiopia, particularly those areas of intervention by ILRI’s LIVES Project in Oromia, Tigray, Amhara, and Southern...
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Does investment in motor pump-based smallholder irrigation lead to...
This study focused on the impact of motor pump-based smallholder irrigation in input use and production as compared to rain-fed production systems and investigated the financial viability of such...
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Marketing patterns of rainfed and irrigated systems: Do they differ?
This study used a nationwide dataset of 5000 households from four regions in Ethiopia to identify important determinants of market orientation, market participation and market outlet choices....
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Forage seed businesses increase women farmers’ incomes
By Ephrem Tesema, Abebe Mamo, Dereje Legesse and Worku Teka smallholder forage seed farmers being trained near Debrezeit (Photo Credit:ILRI\Dereje Legesse) About a year ago (August 2015), the...
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Training and coaching gets women excited about dairy production
by Mamusha Lemma, Abule Erbo and Addissu Abera Lomi Kordofa LIVES supported dairy farmer (Photo Credit:ILRI\Addisu Abera). Lomi Kordofa is a female-headed household. She farms at Illu Aga peasant...
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LIVES gender equality strategy
Research has highlighted the crucial importance of the contribution of women to agricultural value chain development and governance in Ethiopia, according to scientists from the Livestock and...
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Capacity development for market-oriented agricultural development
Capacity development plays a critical enabling role in facilitating the adoption and scaling out of value chain development interventions and approaches by addressing attitudinal, knowledge and skills...
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Building public-private partnerships: LIVES project approach and experience
Leveraging private and public sector partners is key to helping smallholder producers establish platforms to exchange knowledge on overcoming bottlenecks in value chain, and create linkages that...
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