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Potential interventions in livestock value chains development in Ethiopia
At this week’s LIVES project (Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders) ‘Commodity Value Chain Development Inception Workshop in Addis Ababa, Getnet Assefa, Livestock director...
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Value chains central to the LIVES project approach
This week, the LIVES project (Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders) held a ‘Commodity Value Chain Development Inception Workshop in Addis Ababa. ILRI scientist Berhanu...
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Ethiopian farmers to get market boost: LIVES project launched today
Our research for development project is launched today by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), both members of the CGIAR...
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LIVES action research approach can change the face of irrigation in Ethiopia
This week, the LIVES project (Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders) held a ‘Commodity Value Chain Development Inception Workshop in Addis Ababa. The first days were...
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LIVES partners set out priorities and value chain interventions to support...
Last week, some 50 people involved in the the LIVES project (Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders) met to plan project interventions in commodity value chain development....
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Summary of the LIVES Ethiopia launching workshop
LIVES launching workshop participants On January 22, 2013, the Livestock and irrigation value chains for Ethiopian smallholders (LIVES) project was officially launched in Addis Ababa in the presence of...
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LIVES research planning workshop scheduled for end of March 2013
As the big chunk of the LIVES project is action research, it will convene a research planning workshop from 26-28 March 2013. This workshop is expected to substantiate the overall research framework...
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LIVES in the ZONES!
LIVES zonal workshop North Gonder zone LIVES zonal workshop central Tigray zone LIVES zonal workshop Sidamma zone LIVES zonal workshop Jimma zone The whole month of February and the beginning of March...
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LIVES research partners set out research priorities and areas of work for the...
In March, some 75 people from national and international research institutes and governmental agencies joined the research planning workshop of the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian...
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LIVES brings mango and butter tasting to ILRI’s annual meeting
ILRI held its 2013 annual program meeting (APM) at its Addis Ababa campus in May 2013. The LIVES project took part in the ‘sharefair’ and scientific poster sessions bringing in-season mango and local...
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LIVES program of work for April 2013- March 2014
April 2013 to March 2014 will be a year of many firsts for the LIVES project. Now that almost all of the staff have been recruited and the activities in capacity development, knowledge management,...
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Regional and Zonal offices operational, space for knowledge centers allocated!
While planning interventions and action plans for Year 2, the regional and zonal teams, were also working on acquiring office space in the regional research institutes and the bureaus of...
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Engendering gender in the LIVES project
Last week from August 19- 22, 2013, the full LIVES team had a four day interactive training session on gender and value chains in the LIVES project. The team, with different levels of experience and...
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Improving the productivity and market success of Ethiopian farmers: Final...
Reblogged from IPMS Ethiopia: Just released, the final report of the Improving the Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers (IPMS) project gives an overview of project activities and...
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LIVES and IWMI teams investigate irrigation value chains in northern Ethiopia
A team of three researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) recently joined a LIVES field mission in Tigray and Amhara regions. The team set out to familiarize the IWMI and...
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Seeing is believing: Field visit reveals benefits of value chain approaches...
Sidama is one of the two targeted zones of LIVES in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR). In this zone, three districts have been selected by LIVES for value chain...
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Poultry value chain innovation in Tigray
Aleka Gebremedhin is an entrepreneurial farmer who is trying to close some gaps of the poultry value chain in Laelay Mayichew district of Central Tigray zone. This post explains how he got into the...
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Why are calving intervals so long in Ethiopia?
From various baseline surveys and studies, it appears that calving intervals of dairy cows in Ethiopia are often 2 years and over (they are far shorter in other countries). Why is this and what can be...
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Livestock and fish gender group visits LIVES sites in West Shoa
The gender working group of the CGIAR research program on livestock and fish recently met in Addis Ababa to find ways to engender livestock and fish value chains. The LIVES project had an active role...
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The private sector in horticulture and livestock: What Ethiopia could learn...
The traveling workshop to Kenya by the LIVES steering committee in early October brought many insights related to horticulture and livestock. These sectors are more advanced in Kenya than Ethiopia and...
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