digitally-enabled information and service platforms for pro-poor agro-livestock value chains
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Presentation by Ficarelli, P.P.; Samaddar, A.; Padmakumar, V.; Sharbendu Benerjee, S. Presentation to an ILRI- IBM Informal meeting, New Delhi, India, 31 August 2010TRANSCRIPT
Digitally- enabled Information & Service Platforms for Pro-poor Agro-Livestock Value Chains
National Workshop on Agribusiness Knowledge ExchangeHyderabad, NAARM 22-24 April 2010ILRI- IBM Informal meeting
IBM Research Labs Vasant Kunji ND 31 August 2010
By: ILRI - Pier Paolo Ficarelli (ILRI KM ), Arindam Samaddar (ILRI-CSISA), V. Padmakumar (ILRI-EKSL), Sharbendu Benerjee (CABI-ASIA)
Small holding mixed farms represents largest portion of India food producing unit.
Smallholders’ farm SUSTAINABLE intensification will be crucial to ensure national food supply, environmental services and poverty reduction
Challenges Organizational capacity Access to information and services (production & markets) Collapse of Agricultural Extension Services Information asymmetry in Agro-Value Chains
VISION for ICT4D in Agro-Livestock value chains:
Information & Service linkages for ALL the rural unconnected
Who are going to be the food producers of tomorrow?
ILRI
International Livestock Research Institute is part of the CGIAR an International Consortium for Agricultural Research www.cgiar.org Head Office: Nairobi (Addis Abeba, affiliated centre)
Global mandate: Pro-poor livestock development research
ILRI Asia (India)
Livestock value chains Research dairy, pigs & goats) Fodder and Feed Animal and Public Health Conservation of animal genetic resources Capacity building in pro-poor livestock development Policy advice
Funding: UN, EU, BMGF, BMZ/GTZ, DFID etc.
Partners in India: SRTT, ICAR, BAIF, BASIX, NDDB
imGoaT
Small ruminant value chains for reducing poverty and increasing food security in dry-land areas of India and Mozambique
imGoaT
Goal: To increase incomes and food security in a sustainable manner by enhancing pro-poor small ruminant value chains in India and Mozambique
Objectives:1. to pilot sustainable and replicable organizational and technical models to strengthen goat value
chains in India and Mozambique that increase incomes, reduce vulnerability and enhance welfare amongst marginalized groups, including women
2. to document, communicate and promote appropriate evidence-based model(s) for sustainable, pro-poor goat value chains
Leading Organinsation: ILRI
Partners:CARE international (Mozambique) BAIF, BASIX (India)
Donors:EU-IFAD
Project Duration:Oct. 2010-2013
V. Padmakumar - ILRI Senior Project Manager
TATA-ILRI Partnership Programme
Uttarakhand
Jharkhand
Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal
Himmotthan
CInI
NEI
Dairying
Goatery
Piggery
Tata Trusts’ Livestock-based livelihood
programmes
1. Co-creation of knowledge CREATIONider
Supportive Role of ILRI
Co-create need based Knowledge
3. Capacity Strengthening
Strengthen partner capacities (including technical and soft skills)4. Policy FacilitationFacilitate all-inclusive pro-poor policy dialogue
ELKS
Supportive Role of ILRI
2. Knowledge sharing
Sharing existing and /or co-created knowledge to partners
Reduction of:• Poverty,
hunger• Env.
degradation
Adaptive research on dual purpose pigeon pea in Uttarakhand
1. Farmer –led variety trials comparing local and improved pigeon pea varieties
2. Promotion of large scale seed production by farmers for local seed provision
Knowledge co-creation
NORTH EAST
NORTH EAST
JKDJKD
UKDUKD
Other Knowledge Sharing Platforms (National, Regional & International)
Central KM Platform
Knowledge Sharing and Cooperation Approach
Action-research at village level
NING as social media and digital
repository of project information
Action-research at village level
Action-research at village level
Raising Livestock Productivity through Improved Feeding as part of the CSISA Project Initiative for South Asia
Arindam Samaddar, CSISA/ILRI Senior Researcher
Cereal System Initiative South Asia (CSISA)
Goal: To decrease hunger and malnutrition and to increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in South Asia through the accelerated development and inclusive deployment of new cereal varieties, sustainable management technologies, and policies. Objectives:1. Widespread delivery and adaptation of production and post-harvest technologies to increase cereal
production and raise incomes.
2. Crop and resource management practices for sustainable future cereal-based systems.
3. High-yielding, stress-tolerant, and disease- and insect-resistant rice, wheat and maize varieties and hybrids for current and future cereal and mixed crop-livestock systems.
4. Technology targeting and improved policies for inclusive agricultural growth.
5. Creating a new generation of scientists and professional agronomists for cereal systems research and management.
6. Project management, communication and impact assessment
Leading Organinsation: IRRI, Philippines
Donors:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Livestock in the cereal farming systems
Rice and wheat are the basis of mixed irrigated systems in South Asia Strong interactions in the systems between cereal crops and livestock,
straws for feeding and for soils Livestock is important contributions to rural livelihoods, especially for
resource poor farmers and women
CSISA Livestock Component Objectives
Analysis of straw & fodder quality of rice, wheat & maize cultivars and feedback of results to crop breeders
Assessment of opportunities for more efficient livestock integration in cereal systems:
• Feeding strategies development and dissemination
• Farmer (e)valuation of fodder/straw of different cereal cultivars
• Comparison of fodder quality traits- in vitro, in vivo and on-farm
Mobile Technology Enabled Agro-advisory
Brining Science @ Farm Gate through Technology
Sharbendu Banerjee - Project & Business Development Manager-CABI South Asia India.
CABI
CABI is an UK-based intergovernmental not- for- profit research and development organisation owned by 44 countries and having India as a major stakeholder www.cabi.org
Head Office: Wallingford (U.K.), 16 offices world-wide
Global mandate: Providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and improve people’ s lives
CABI South-Asia Global Plant Clinics (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan Nepal) Mobile-enabled Agro-Info Services (IKSL-India) Coffee leaf rust resilience ( India & 4 African countries) Invasive alien species control (India-U.K.)
Where: 18 States (IKSL), Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu (CLR) North India (IS & GPC)
CABI has the world’s best digital knowledge repository in agriculture and bio-science referred by the scientific community
CABI Services
We provide scientific backstopping service to existing agro-advisory Helplines
We develop contents for dissemination to farmers through digital and print channels
We build capacity of the extension service providers though training, information aggregation and Knowledge Management
As an international organization, we can establish linkages and collaboration between national and international agriculture research institutions
Our Agro-advisory Model
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