Tags: dairying

ILRI News on dairying

18 Apr 2019

A ‘Livestock Master Plan’ is MISSION CRITICAL for India’s state of Bihar

Shama Khatoon, outside her goat shed in Bihar, is a widow supporting her family through goat rearing (photo via Aga Khan Development Network/Mansi Midha). The article is written by Steve Staal, leader of ILRI’s Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods program. This is a banner year for the livestock...

ILRI clippings

08 Apr 2019

Susan MacMillan

Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies

Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow Su Kahumbu is one of Kenya’s most authoritative and sustainable farmers. She is the brains behind two social enterprises: ‘Green Dreams TECH Ltd’, an organic farm and service connecting Kenya’s small-...

AVCD program blog

27 Mar 2019

Meron Mulatu

Bulk milk chilling and pasteurizing plants great opportunity for cooperatives to run as a business

The AVCD project handed over bulk milk chilling and pasteurizing plants to cooperative societies of Kericho, Homa Bay, Kisumu and Makueni counties of Kenya in mid January and March 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Meron Mulatu). The Feed the Future Kenya – Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program...

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Publications on dairying

Thesis

Published2018

Across country dairy breeding strategies in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Article

Published2019

Bacteriological quality and safety of ready-to-consume milk and naturally fermented milk in Borana pastoral area, southern Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2019

Coxiella seroprevalence and risk factors in large ruminants in Bihar and Assam, India

Journal Article

Published2018

Characterizing smallholder dairy production and their marketing: The implication of enhancing market-oriented dairy development in Bure district, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2019

Presence and property: Gendered perspectives on participation in a dairy development program in Kenya and Uganda

Journal Article

Published2019

Community, system and policy level drivers of bovine tuberculosis in smallholder periurban dairy farms in India: A qualitative enquiry

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ILRI Projects on dairying

Sep 2017Dec 2019

Facilitating Value Addition and Processing in the Context of the Cassava, Maize, Banana, Vegetable and Livestock Value Chains(PRODEMA) Activities to support the Milk Value Chain

This phase of the Project (PRODEMA II) is concerned with value addition, developing markets, demonstration and upscaling of new technologies for dairy, cassava, banana, fruits and vegetables and improving human nutrition along these value chains.

Jan 2019Dec 2022

Rwanda Dairy Development Project is implemented by Government of Rwanda under a loan from IFAD. This technical assistance project aims to support improved feeding of dairy cattle across project sites

Aims to provide livestock technical support including use of ration balancing approaches, feed-supply demand work and the use of other prioritization tools including SoFT to the Rwanda dairy development project

Jan 2019Dec 2020

Feed the Future - Accelerated Value Chain Development Program phase II

The Feed the Future Kenya Accelerated Value Chain Development program seeks to widely apply technologies and innovations for selected value chains in order to competitively and sustainably increase productivity, contributing to inclusive agricultural growth, nutrition and food security in the...

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