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Business Model: Supply of Livestock Inputs - Shaya Women's Sheep Fattening Youth Cooperative
In most countries, agricultural inputs are mainly sold by private sector businesses. Lack of livestock production inputs is a core problem particularly for livestock farmers in Ethiopia. This is due to the limited number ...
Business skills training guide for potato farmer organizations and cooperatives: A guide for business skills and enterprise development
This training guide was developed by the potato component of the Accelerated Value Chain Development
(AVCD) program with contributions from Edward Mwakio, a business skills consultant, and from county
agribusiness ...
Feasibility of apical cuttings as an additional technique for rapid seed potato multiplication in Ethiopia
Rooted apical cuttings technology is a novel innovation for enhance potato seed systems in SSA. It holds a promising potential due to its low-cost, simplicity, versatility and agility. It would need more attention for its ...
Business Model: Production and Supply of Livestock Feeding Equipment_Buta Shuta Youth Cooperative, Ethiopia
Feed accounts for 75% of production costs for livestock farmers. A reduction in feed costs or feed productivity would significantly improve the financial situation of sheep farmers. Feed storage and feeding equipment are ...
Outcome brief: 6 years of AVCD interventions in Kenya through the Accelerated Value Chain Development Program
The AVCD potato project supported the integration of the private and public sectors in new potato value chains in Kenya that are led by farmers societies in the potato growing counties, generating 33,977,789 USD in sales.
Per ...
Synthesis Report on Gender Transformative Approach to Overcome Gender-Based Constraints within the Livestock CRP Target Sites in Ethiopia: Gender issues addressed, outcomes reported and the way forward
The synthesis review on community conversations (CCs) covered one published paper
and 26 unpublished reports (technical reports, manuals, extension materials, training
materials, blog stories, and posters) to produce ...
Technical Progress Report of Unlocking the Potential of Grass pea for Resilient Agriculture in Dry Environments (UPGRADE): Introgress low ODAP trait into locally adapted varieties through marker assisted selection
ICARDA in partnership with the John Innes Centre and the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research has carried out various experiments envisaged in the work packages of the project entitled “Unlocking the Potential of ...
Capacity strengthening and equipping of silage hub for silage block development
The demand for sweetpotato vine silage as a livestock feed and a source of income for youth has increased tremendously due to the different methods we have used to disseminate the technology including posting information ...
Guideline to define breeding objective functions, construct selection indexes and deal with uncertain sires in sheep and goat breeding programmes
The first and crucial step in any breeding programme is to define the breeding goal.
Small ruminant breeding programmes usually aim at simultaneous improvement of
several traits. Guidelines are given to define multi-trait ...
Performance of the sheep breeders' cooperatives in Ethiopia
Ethiopia priority country project is a 3-year project designed to consolidate the individual pilot
interventions CRP research has been implementing since 2012 and translate that into a pilot
integrated package. The project ...