Scaling up innovative small stock management practices

Abstract

This study is part of the preparatory phase of IFAD's Initiative for Mainstreaming Innovations (IMI). The study is a collaborative effort of IFAD's Livestock & Rangelands Advisory Team, IFAD's Country Portfolio Managers (CPMs) of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Senegal, Morocco, Sudan and Syria, the Joint Research Fellow of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Center of Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Project Management Units (PMU in the selected countries) and numerous resource people (beneficiaries, managers, and other stakeholders) in the selected countries. The aim of the study was to review selected innovative livestock management approaches that blend improved technologies with indigenous knowledge and practices, and had proven positive impacts on poverty, marginalization of women and pastoral groups, and natural resource degradation. The three innovations are based on small livestock-raising practices which are widespread among the extremely poor especially women.