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Higher quality and more accessible forage seeds - a pathway to better feed Ethiopia's livestock

Ethiopia faces a major challenge in feeding its large livestock population in a sustainable way. Most animals are fed on low-grade crop residues or graze natural pastures, which are suffering serious degradation. As a result, livestock remain relatively unproductive despite the key role they play...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) – new developments

G-FEAST – a gendered version of FEAST Feeding cows; Tana River watershed, Kenya; Credit Georgina Smith CIAT Feeding livestock involves multiple tasks including planting, weeding and harvesting of forages, collecting and storing crop residues and purchasing of concentrate feeds. In every farming...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

Consultancy opportunity: editing and improving draft reports from application of the Feed Assessment tool (FEAST)

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) is a participatory method to support systematic selection of livestock feed interventions at community level. FEAST has been applied in over a dozen countries and around 80 FEAST reports are currently in the public domain on the CGIAR digital repository CGSpace...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

Short assignment: Mapping Feasibility of Livestock Feed Options in the Tropics

Livestock feed is a critical constraint to livestock productivity in Low and Middle Income Countries. Livestock feed development efforts have, however, tended to promote new feeding strategies in a piecemeal fashion without sufficient consideration of system level constraints such as availability...

Livestock Feed and Fodder blog

Help shape a feed and forage strategy for ILRI – Your inputs needed

The availability of sufficient and adequate feed is one of the most significant constraints to livestock productivity in the tropics. It is an enormous challenge that requires innovation and concerted action towards agreed priority outcomes. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is...