Update on the Ethiopia sheep and goats value chain

development project

Barbara RischkowskyICARDA

Ethiopia small ruminants value chain strategy and implementation planning workshop, Addis Ababa, 13-14 June 2014

THE CORE PROBLEM

THE CAUSES

Insufficient feed resources (climate

and land availability)

Poorly developed

markets

Lack of effective policies and institutions

Feed shortage and/or utilization

Lack of research and technology

transfer

WHOLE VALUE CHAIN

INPUTS & SERVICES PRODUCTION MARKETINGPROCESSING CONSUMPTION

High morbidity and mortality

High market pricesLow income of VC actors Food insecurity

Malnutrition Hidden hungerPovertyTHE IMPACT

Degradation of resource

base

Lack of knowledge and skills in SR management

Poor performance of sheep and goat value chains

ASF quality and safety

Inadequate input supplies

Weak linkages between producers and markets

Disease pressure

Problem statement

Objective: to improve the performance of sheep and goat meat value chains in Ethiopia and in doing so to improve livelihoods, incomes and assets, particularly of women,

through increased productivity, reduced risk and improved market access along the value chain.

Vision: By 2020, we see poor men and women enjoying increased levels of production, income and nutritious

consumption derived from sustainable sheep and goat value chains

Objective and vision

Intermediate outcomes• Priority VC constraints lessened or resolved• Partnerships with major stakeholders established and

additional investments aligned• Herd productivity increased by 25% (measured as increase

in offtake (proportion of animals (kg) sold or consumed in a year of total animals (kg) kept)

Ultimate outcomes (after scaling phase)• 7000 SR producing households at seven sites participate in

the program • Farmers and other value chain actors have increased

access to livestock inputs and outputs services • Increase in annual sheep and goat meat production of 250

tonnes for urban and export markets

VC Outcomes

The process in Ethiopia up to now

From assessment to interventions: steps taken

1. Consultative site selection process through national and regional consultation meetings and site visits (June-Oct 2012)

Selected sites Region District Partner project Research Center

Goat Value Chains

Abergelle Amhara/Tigray

Sazba (Amhara)Felegehiwot (Tigray)

BecaHub Goat Project

SekotaTARI

Negelle Borena Oromia Dillo (Borana) BoreGoat and Sheep Value ChainShinelle Somali Shinelle Haromaya

University

Sheep Value Chains

Menz Amhara Molale and Mehal Meda

Debre Berhan

Horro Oromia Horro/Shambu BakoEast Tigray Tigray Atsbi LIVES MekelleAdillo/Wolaita SNNP Doyogena SARI Funds Worabe

Selected sites for sheep and goat value chains

Selected sites for sheep and goat value chains

From assessment to interventions: steps taken

1. Consultative site selection process through national and regional consultation meetings and site visits (June-Oct 2012)

2. Rapid Value Chain Analysis (VCA) at seven sites (Nov 2012-May 2013)

3. Three multi-stakeholder meetings for prioritization and planning of site-specific interventions involving about 70 persons (March/April 2013)

4. Testing/Implementation of prioritized best-bet interventions (July 2013-Dec 2016)

5. Workshop to define impact pathway s defined for four major intervention areas identified in the MS meetings (Feb. 2014)

6. Evaluation of interventions (pilot on CBBP in 2014)

Complimentary activities

1. Situational analysis (July 2013-June 2014)

2. Quantitative VCA (November 2013-September 2014)

3. Partnership consultations and landscaping (ongoing)

4. Reviews on technical intervention areas

5. Production Systems Studies

6. Feed Resource Assessment (FEAST) and Feed technology screening (TechFit)

Accomplishments

• Desk study on best practices and successes & failures of feed interventions (online)

• Community-based breeding programs – state of the art and Research Priorities (online)

• Sheep research in Ethiopia: Review of projects and thoughts on strategies (online)

• Goat Research and Development in Ethiopia: Review of projects and thoughts on strategies (final stage)

• SR Fattening Systems in Ethiopia (draft)

Review Reports

Value Chain analysisRapid (qualitative) Value chain analysis• Toolkit for rapid VCA for small ruminants (in Ethiopia) • 8 site reports from rapid value chain analysis including

challenges and proposed interventions (http://livestockfish.cgiar.org/2014/04/10/ethiopia-vcreports/)

• Synthesis report on rapid VCA (final stage)• Technical briefs on VCA results in English and Amharic (in

preparation)• Review of Ethiopia small ruminant value chain rapid

assessment: from a gender perspective (online)• Safe Food, Fair Food qualitative integrated assessment of small

ruminant value chains in Ethiopia (completed)• Review of SFFF assessments from a gender perspective

(completed)

Value Chain analysis (cont.)Benchmarking (quantitative VCA) • Toolkit for SR VC in Ethiopia developed (incl. additional food

safety assessment module for three sites)

• Sampling strategy developed

• Mobile data collection with ODK tablets fully functional

• Producer data (collected as part of the in-depth VCA) will also serve as baseline

• Data collection at three sites completed

Research outputs

Breeding and Genetics• Data Recording and Management System for SR (DREMS) • Evaluation report on sheep breeding programs at two VC sites • MSc thesis On-farm phenotypic characterization and

performance evaluation of Bati, Borena and short eared Somali goat populations of Ethiopia

• PhD thesis Effect of genetic improvement of sheep in Ethiopia: Systems analysis

• PhD thesis Design of community-based breeding for Gumuz and Abergelle goat breeds

• 8 ISI publications (2012-2014) • 7 contributions to ESAP Conference in Aug. 2013

Research outputs

Feeds and Forages• 14 village reports on feed resources and technology

assessment for 3 sites (online) • NIRS equations on barley developed and shared through CRP

NIRS platform• Database on nutritional quality of food-feed cultivars in lentils,

chickpea, field pea and faba bean with Ethiopian national programs (ongoing)

• Database on Dryland Feeds (AFAWA)Marketing• MSc thesis on determinants of the decision to participate in the

marketing of goats by rural households in Ethiopia• MSP platform report on marketing in Atsbi

Capacity development

Post-Graduate training

• 7 PhD students on breeding/modelling (2 completed and 5 ongoing)

• 1 PhD on quantitative VCA (started)• 1 PhD on Desho grass, a local forage grass (ongoing)• 4 MSc students on production system/breed

characterization and marketing (2 completed)• 2 MSc students on food-feed traits in lentils and

chickpeas (ongoing)• 1 PhD on crop residue utilization with Africa Rising

(started)• SFFF: 3 MSc students on pathogens in slaughterhouses

(ongoing)

Capacity buildingShort-term training Courses • Rapid VC and food safety assessments

(ILRI partner project SFFF), in Addis and Awassa, Nov. 2012

• Writeshop to complete VCA reports, in Addis, Feb. 2013

• Phenotypic Characterization of SR genetic resources, in Addis, Dec. 2012

• Molecular Characterization of SR genetic resources in Addis and Holetta, Sept. 2013

• Data recording and management system and estimation of breeding values, in Addis, Sept. 2013

• Quantitative VCA, in Addis, Nov. 2013• FEAST and TechFit, in Addis, Nov. 2013

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Testing of Interventions

Implementation of prioritized best-bet interventions

Best-bets research interventions initiated • Genetic improvement program for sheep and goats at 5 sites

(Menz, Horro, Abergelle, Atsbi, and Doyogana)• Pilot Multi-stakeholder Platform at district level marketing and

market information initiated for Atsbi sheep (ILRI (LIVES)-ICARDA-SNV)

• Optimizing SR Fattening Systems in Ethiopia (review, piloting and assessment tool)

• Improving crop residue quality of grain legumes (jointly with Ethiopian national breeding programs)

• Studies of meat safety in selected slaughterhouses

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• Continuation of community-based breeding programs in three sites (Menz, Horro and Bonga) o Performance recording o Community selection and

sharing of breeding ramso First evaluation report of

progress

Example: best-bet on improving genetics

o Data Recording and Management System (DREMS) incl. mobile data recording in the field developed with Embrapa

o Establishment of breeding cooperatives• Implementation framework for sheep breeding programs at

new sites (draft report under review)

Planned best-bet Research and Development Interventions • Forage development and seed delivery in Doyogana (linked with

CRP DS)• Parasite control and feed intervention in Borana (jointly with

CRSP-Livestock Climate Change Project in Borana) • Assessment of safety of milk fermentation techniques (ILRI SFFF)

to be linked with improvements in processing • Assessment of safety of raw meat (ILRI SFFF)• Diagnostic and epidemiological studies to identify key diseases and

assess their economic importance • Smart marketing at 4 sites• Farmers’ trainings on improved husbandry measures (jointly SNV,

LMD and LIVES)

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Implementation on prioritized best-bet interventions

Partnership Development

Well-established partnerships• National and regional research institutes (research centers next to

the sites)• Bureaus of Agriculture at district levels • Ethiopian Universities (Jimma, Haramaya, Addis Ababa)• Embrapa, Boku, OSU, CSU, University of Hohenheim

Planned• WUR (and SLU?)

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Partnership building: R4D partners

Initiated/ongoing• LIVES: integrated sheep VC sites in Atsbi with shared responsibilities • ILRI livestock master plan development: sceanarios for SR VC• SFFF: Assessment of safety of milk fermentation techniques • CRP DS: Forage development and seed delivery in Doyogana• SNV/LIVES: MSP in Atsbi• Africa Rising: crop residue utilization; food-feed cultivars; joint

trainings; FEAST and TechFit too improvement• FAO: employment opportunities in SR VCsPlanned• IFAD: collaboration with PCDPII and RUFIPII• SNV, LMD and LIVES: Capacity building program on improved

husbandry measures for farmers; support for farmer and women cooperatives through LMD calls

• SNV: fattening system guide for farmers• FAO: PPR control, PE studies• Innovation Lab Livestock Climate Change Project: Parasite control

and feed intervention in Borana26

Partnership building: areas of collaboration

Resource Mobilization

Project proposals in 2014• CRP3.7 USAID Linkage Smart marketing along the small ruminants’

value chains in Horro and Menz ; ICARDA-ILRI; 40K, 7 April 2014• IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development)

Strengthening institutional platforms for participatory actions towards sustainable sheep production in fragile ecosystems in Ethiopia , ICARDA, 200 K, 11 April 2014, pending.

• IFAD Grant (Country Office) Improving the Performance of Pro-Poor Sheep Value Chains for Enhanced Livelihoods, Food and Nutrition Security in Ethiopia; ICARDA-ILRI, 1.2 Million, in revision

• USDA Innovation Lab Livestock and CC (CSU): Improving livelihood of pastoralist communities in Borana through strategic feeding and gastro- intestinal nematode parasites control in goats; US$ 50 K, 9 June 2014

• BMZ small grant: related to Feed and Forages (in preparation)

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