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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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Summary of the LIVES Ethiopia launching workshop
LIVES launching workshop participants On January 22, 2013, the Livestock and irrigation value chains for Ethiopian smallholders (LIVES) project was officially launched in Addis Ababa in the presence of...
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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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ILRI's Azage Tegegne becomes Australia Awards African Alumni Ambassador
Reblogged from ILRI Clippings: The Australian Government has launched an Africa Alumni Ambassadors initiative aimed at raising the visibility of Australia Awards in Africa. Dr. Azage Tegegne,...
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Testing a low-tech cooling system for dairy farmers in rural Ethiopia
Recently, Lia Bardoel, a Masters Student in Industrial Design from Eindhoven University of Technology, visited LIVES. She presented her work on a solar cooling system for fluid milk and the subsequent...
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LIVES moving forward: interventions identified, actions started!
In May and June 2013, LIVES regional and zonal teams in the four regions (Amhara, Oromia, SNNP and Tigray) were busy, together with public sector staff, prioritizing and aligning project interventions...
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ILRI scientist honoured by Australian university for contributions to African...
ILRI scientist and LIVES project manager, Azage Tegegne, was honored by James cook University of Australia as an outstanding alumni of 2013. Read more about Azage Tegegne’s recent accomplishment on...
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Commodities, innovation and action research in Ethiopia: Livestock live talk...
Reblogged from ILRI Clippings: The Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers project is coming to an end. IPMS aimed to transform agricultural productivity and rural...
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Ethiopia creates new livestock development state ministry
The Government of Ethiopia recently established a Livestock State Ministry within the Ministry of Agriculture. The State Ministry officially started on 15 March 2013 with the appointment of State...
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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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Knowledge helps feed livestock value chain innovation in Ethiopia
Supply of inputs, such as feed and drugs is one of the core activities in a livestock commodity value chain. However, this component is poorly developed in Ethiopia. One reason for this is lack of...
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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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Livestock and fish gender group visits LIVES sites in West Shoa
The gender working group of the CGIAR research program on livestock and fish recently met in Addis Ababa to find ways to engender livestock and fish value chains. The LIVES project had an active role...
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LIVES Updates – October 2013
LIVES UPDATES is a quarterly newsletter that is electronically published by the LIVES project. The updates constitute activities, observations, reflections, and major events carried out by the project...
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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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Tropical race 4 is on Ethiopia’s doorstep: a caution for banana value chain...
On November 21, a news analysis on TR4′s transcontinental leap was posted on the ProMusa: Mobilizing banana science for sustainable livelihoods website. The analysis indicates that tropical race 4...
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