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ILRI News on scaling

24 Oct 2019

Bringing livestock research and business together for sustainable agriculture

Innovation, scalability and sustainability need to be addressed by both the private and public sectors in order to successfully feed growing populations in developing countries (photo K. Dhanji/ILRI). Currently, a large share of animal-source foods in lower-income countries is produced in...

ILRI News

15 Oct 2019

Paul Karaimu

Scaling better and faster: towards a new framework for international livestock research

By Saba Ermyas Farmers benefit from ILRI Impact at Scale projects (photo credit: ILRI). Have you heard the saying ‘pilots never fail, pilots never scale’? Unfortunately, research shows that this saying is true most of the time because few pilot projects successfully scale up to sustainable and long...

Africa RISING feed

25 Jun 2019

Africa RISING communications

Adopting good agricultural practises was the game changer I needed!

Method Magoda and his family outside their house at Utengule village in Kilolo District, Tanzania (photo credit: Frednand Japhet/IITA). The scene is Kilolo District in Tanzania’s Iringa region. Utengule is one of the 37 villages where the Africa RISING–NAFAKA project is demonstrating various...

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Publications on scaling

Journal Article

Published2019

New insights on efficiency and productivity analysis: Evidence from vegetable-poultry integration in rural Tanzania

Presentation

Published2019

Scaling agricultural innovations: Theoretical and practical insights from Africa RISING Ethiopian highlands project

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ILRI Projects on scaling

Jan 2016Jan 2020

The Sustainable Rangeland Management Project

Between 2010 and 2015, the Sustainable Rangeland Management Project (SRMP) assisted nine villages to carry out VLUP, and successfully piloted the implementation of joint village planning across three of these, leading to the protection through certification of a shared grazing area called OLENGAPA...

Jan 2016Dec 2019

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program

FTF-MLTS strives to reduce the productivity gaps and expand the volume and value of ruminant livestock produced and marketed by 61,000 households in 31 FTF focus communes in Sikasso, Mopti and Timbuktu. To achieve this, FTF-MLTS is promoting the wide-scale dissemination of productivity enhancing...