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Regional and Zonal offices operational, space for knowledge centers allocated!
While planning interventions and action plans for Year 2, the regional and zonal teams, were also working on acquiring office space in the regional research institutes and the bureaus of...
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LIVES UPDATES
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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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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Engendering gender in the LIVES project
Last week from August 19- 22, 2013, the full LIVES team had a four day interactive training session on gender and value chains in the LIVES project. The team, with different levels of experience and...
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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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Poultry value chain innovation in Tigray
Aleka Gebremedhin is an entrepreneurial farmer who is trying to close some gaps of the poultry value chain in Laelay Mayichew district of Central Tigray zone. This post explains how he got into the...
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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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World school milk day celebrated in Ethiopia’s Oromia region
October 8, 2013 was a lively day in one elementary school in Sululta town near Addis Ababa. The Oromia Livestock and Health Development Agency, together with the LIVES project, SNV and Plan...
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Why are calving intervals so long in Ethiopia?
From various baseline surveys and studies, it appears that calving intervals of dairy cows in Ethiopia are often 2 years and over (they are far shorter in other countries). Why is this and what can be...
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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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The private sector in horticulture and livestock: What Ethiopia could learn...
The traveling workshop to Kenya by the LIVES steering committee in early October brought many insights related to horticulture and livestock. These sectors are more advanced in Kenya than Ethiopia and...
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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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Estrus synchronization of dairy cattle takes off in Amhara region
Two years ago, hormone assisted estrus synchronization and mass artificial insemination of dairy cattle was a new technology for farmers and experts of Mecha district, Amhara region. Back then,...
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Connecting the dots – roles for ICTs in agricultural extension services
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) recently convened a conference on ‘ict4ag – the digital springboard for inclusive agriculture.’ Held in Kigali, it brought together...
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