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Making agriculture an attractive business: experiences from LIVES project
By Dereje Legesse (LIVES Agribusiness Expert) Working with national and regional partners, the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for the Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project has designed...
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LIVES irrigation management and value chain development training held in Tigray
By Desalegne Tadesse The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) Project recently conducted a training on...
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Breaking stereotypes in beekeeping: Zeritu Ahmed’s story
By Ephrem Tesema and Mesfin Tefera Women making traditional hives from bamboo and mud (photo credit: ILRI/Mesfin Tefera). Apiculture is one of the new ventures introduced by the Livestock and...
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Reflections on LIVES project knowledge management and promotion approaches
By Mamusha Lemma and Beamlak Tesfaye The Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project aims to support the efforts of the Ethiopian government to transform...
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Training and study tour widens adoption of livestock production technologies...
By Abule Ebro, Gemeda Dhuguma, Temsegen Minam and Yared Deribe Participants visiting the Alama livestock technologies shop (Photo Credit:ILRI\Abule Ebro) A combined knowledge sharing program, that...
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Bridging the knowledge and skills gaps: lessons from LIVES capacity...
by Mamusha Lemma Throughout its activities in Ethiopia, the Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project has used participatory processes to design capacity...
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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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Evaluating viability and benefits of small-scale feed chopper businesses in...
A motorized chopper introduced by LIVES (Photo Credit:ILRI\Dereje Legesse) Motorized feed choppers introduced by the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project are...
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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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Scaling out fertilizer application in communal grazing areas in Tigray—is it...
Grazing land fertilization in Tigray region (photo credit:ILRI\Yayneshet Tesfay). The establishment of enclosures in communal grazing areas has been widely adopted in several sites in the Tigray region...
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Sidama study shows economic benefits of sheep milk in Ethiopia
By Yoseph Mekasha, Tesfaye Shewage, Dirk Hoekstra and Azage Tegegne Indigenous smallholder sheep flock grazing at Bensa District (photo credit:ILRI\Yosepf Mekasha). Sheep rearing is an important part...
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Innovative approaches promote knowledge centre use in Bahir Dar Zuria District
By Mamusha Lemma and Beamlak Tesfaye Tigist Gebrekidan shares her experience on the use and management of a knowledge centre with knowledge centre managers (photo credit:ILRI\Beamlak Tesfaye). In...
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Reflection on how to further evolve LIVES
By Dirk Hoekstra The Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project and the Improving the Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers (IPMS) project that...
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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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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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Tigray survey shows milk shops key in market-oriented dairy development
By Yayneshet Tesfay, Dawit Woldemariam, Haile Tilahun, Berhanu Gebremedhin and Dirk Hoekstra A milk shop owner in Axum (photo credit:ILRI\Yayneshet Tesfay). According to the Ethiopia Central Statistics...
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Mini incubators increase chicks sales for women in Tigray
A mini-incubator introduced by LIVES (photo credit:ILRI\Yayneshet Tesfay). Small-scale hatcheries are recent additions to the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES)...
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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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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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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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