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Lessons Learned The USAID Livestock Innovation Lab in
Nepal and Africa
Richard Bowen Innovation Lab for Adapting Livestock Systems
to Climate Change Colorado State University
Lessons Learned The USAID Livestock Innovation Lab in
Nepal and Africa
Lesson Learned Do not fly through Chicago in January
Lesson Learned Do Not Let Jeeban Lead You Across River
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Factors Limiting Livestock Production
Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Land Tenure
Landscape Degradation
Disease Market Access Conflict
Transportation Obstacles
Invasive Species Access to feed and fodder
Water Stress and Risk Now
• Research for development (not implementation)
• Improve health and productivity of livestock while benefiting health and welfare of farm families and conserving natural resources
• Target: smallholder, poor farmers
• Capacity building a priority
• Feed the Future countries
• Everything overlaid with climate change and gender
Lesson Learned 1 Broad Approach to Priority-Setting
• Long-term research projects designed and led by U.S. University scientists in collaboration with in-country partners
• Graduate students that study in their own country or a few at U.S. Universities
• Scholars
Scholars (Early Career Researchers)
Ethiopia: 6
Kenya: 3
Nepal: 19
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Women’s Workload
Grazing Intensities
Livestock Health and Zoonoses
Restoring Landscape
(Most of the) Scholars From Nepal
Top Down or Bottom Up Approach
USAID, CSU, U.S. Investigators (diverse disciplines)
Scholars
Top Down or Bottom Up Approach
USAID, CSU, U.S. Investigators (diverse disciplines)
Scholars
Farmers
Lesson Learned 2 The Important Problems are Global (and global solutions are called for)
LTRP: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania
Peter Little: Climate-Induced Vulnerability & Pastoralist Livestock Marketing
Layne Coppock: Sustainable Pastoralism on the Borana Plateau
Jonna Mazet: Livestock Health/Zoonoses
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Lesson Learned 3 We Are All in This Together
Encouraging Inter-regional Collaborations
• Minigrants: Joining hands between Africa and Nepal
• Next application: Scholar collaborations between regions
Special Thanks Doj Raj Khanal Joyce Turk Shana Gillette
Katie Steneroden
Dana Hoag Diana Fahrenbruck
Leslie Butler
Jeeban Panthi Tarendra Lakhankar Nir Krakauer
Thank You