Fodder and feed as a key opportunity for driving sustainable intensification of crop livestock systems in Tanzania

Fodder markets in East Java: Identifying interventions to improve market performance and quality

Piloting climate-adaptive forage seed systems in Ethiopia (FeedSeed)

Project goal: Poor livestock keepers in the project pilot areas will be using improved forage crop seeds in the project pilot areas mitigating feed constraints for systems intensification and leading to adaptation to climate change. 50% of the farmers producing forage seed and 20% of the seed...

Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches

Project goal The overall goal of the project is to improve pastoral livelihoods through sustainable market systems. The project aims to promote pastoral livelihoods diversification, facilitate robust markets for livestock and livestock products and enhance consolidation of knowledge base to enhance...

Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST)

Improvement of Fodder Markets and Identification of Crop Varieties with Improved Fodder Characteristics in Selected Disadvantaged Areas of India

Livestock rely heavily on crop residues as the main source of fodder in much of India. In Bihar State, for example, more than half of the land area is planted to rice, and the main types of animal feeds used include rice straw, wheat straw and some pulse residues. However, insufficient fodder and...

Napier Grass stunt and smut project

Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increased use of fodder

The current project seeks to engage with a wide range of stakeholders to strengthen the capacity of poor livestock keepers to: select and adopt fodder options access market opportunities to enable them to improve their livelihoods The project seeks to achieve these goals in ways that will ensure...

Improving postrainy sorghum varieties to meet the growing grain and fodder demand in peninsular India

Enhancing livelihoods of livestock-dependent poor people through increasing use of fodder: India and Nigeria (Fodder Innovation Project)

It was also premised that scaling up would take place through farmer-to-farmer exchanges and through the dissemination activities of development organisations partnering with the project. However, findings from the initial key project activities in Phase I showed that the issue of addressing fodder...