Commodity development interventions in LIVES

Dirk Hoekstra

LIVES Project Launch Workshop Addis Ababa, 22 January 2013

Selected farmer produced commodities

• Livestock– Milk/local butter – dairy– Live animals – large and small ruminants– Eggs/broilers – poultry– Honey (raw, semi processed) - apiculture

• Irrigated agriculture– Vegetables– Fruits– Fodder (linked to livestock)

Producers and markets

• Producers– Rural small scale mixed crop livestock farms (all products)– Rural specialized farms (live animals, apiculture, fruits and

vegetables)– Urban/peri-urban speciliased farms (fluid milk, poultry)

• Markets– Urban - processed and unprocessed raw products– Rural – mostly unprocessed and farm processed products– Export – processed and unprocessed products

Focus of the project

• Interventions for farmers and small and medium scale agri-business enterprise level in clusters of districts

• Linkages with federal/regional agribusiness (projects) for supply of inputs and services and sale of products

• Linkages with federal/regional service providers for information and quality control

Project focus

F F F

AB AB AB

AB Farmers

Agri business

SP

SP

Service providers

Fed/reg

districts

Potential value chain intervention

• Production interventions

• Input and service supply interventions

• Processing marketing intervention

Production interventions

• Increasing production, productivity and income of livestock and irrigated crop commodities– Distinguish between different farm types/systems and

production – Improved breeds/varieties– Improved crop/livestock husbandry practices, including

use of improved inputs/equipment, planting schedules, post harvest, quality

– Increased business size with help of credit – animals, irrigated crops

– Increased percentage of high value commodities in irrigation schemes

Input/service supply interventions

• Improved production of animals and crops by individual farmers and communities – Animals/insects (bee colonies, hatchery -

pullets multiplication, community breeding small ruminants)

– Fruit nurseries– Vegetable seed/seedling producers– Fodder

Input/service supply interventions

• Improved services by public & private sector (including cooperatives)

– Animal and crop health services by private and public sector using thermo stable vaccines, improved diagnostic equipment

– Reproduction of large ruminants using hormone assisted mass insemination, private sector involvement

– Water management in schemes by cooperatives and water user associations through business oriented practices

– Pump repair services

Input/service supply interventions

• Linkages between federal/regional agri-business with village/district/zonal level agri-businesses– Irrigation equipment– Veterinary drugs– Agro-chemicals

• Linkages between federal/regional level suppliers of improved breeds and varieties with District level multipliers – Certification of producers of seed/seedlings

Processing and marketing interventions

• Improved marketing and processing of crop and livestock products by district/zonal level cooperatives and private entrepreneurs– Introduction small scale processing equipment– Bulking produce for marketing– Formation of collective marketing structures for

prodcuers (formal and informal)– Contract farming

Processing and marketing interventions

• Linkages between federal/regional agri-businesses with district level processors and traders– Export abattoir– Commercial honey processors– Fruit and vegetable whole sale traders/producers

• Linkages between district/village level service providers and federal level service institutions– Livestock and crop prices – EXC and LINK– Information – Associations (horticulture, apiculture,

dairy) and projects– Quality – Bureau of Quality and Standards, EIAR

Gender in vc development

• Greater involvement of women (female headed HH, married women) in value chain development– Involvement in capacity development and knowledge

management activities– Targeting women for commodities and specific vc interventions

• Butter in rural systems - production• Poultry – egg/broiler production, pullet • Small ruminants - production• Fruits – seedling production

– Use of women friendly technologies (modern hives, mechanized/conservation tillage)

– Women involvement in cooperative structure and water user groups

Environment in vc development

• Assessment of environmental impact and mitigating measures and synergies – Use of crop residues for fodder – declining soil fertility –

crop rotation, use of manure– Use of agricultural chemicals - integrated pest

management, awareness creation– Zoonotic diseases in intensive livestock systems –

awareness creation, zoning– Climate effect – methane – increased

production/animal– Grazing area development synergy with apiculture and

down stream irrigation

Thank You!

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