improved food and nutritional security from better utilisation of dairy cattle breed/cross-breed...
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Presented by Miika Tapio, Enyew Negussie and Karen Marshal, 10 December 2012TRANSCRIPT
FoodAfrica: WP2
Improved Food and Nutritional Security from Better Utilisation of Dairy Cattle Breed / Cross-breed Types in Senegal
Miika Tapio, Enyew Negussie, Karen Marshal
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People
Dr. Karen Marshall(animal breeder)
Dr. Stanly Fon Tebug(animal scientistVeterinarian)
Dr. Enyew Negussie
Dr. Miika Tapio
Dr. Jarmo Juga
Dr. Isabelle Baltenweck (agricultural economist)
Jane Poole (applied statistician)
+ PhD student andUniversity supervisor(s)+ 6 enumerators+ farmers
Background: Why West Africa
● Recurrent food crisis in the Sahel region
2012: Starvation for 18 million people(Conflicts & poor harvests)
● MFA wishes to increase regional and thematic co-operation with Sub-Saharan Africa, speci f ical ly including West Afr ica.
● The project was just launching first site selection activities in Mali, when the 2012 coop occurred
● The activities were moved to Senegal, where the project was expected to make a big impact
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(Statistics by UNICEF)
Background: Why milk
● Consumption of even small amounts of milk can significantly increase nutritional security & prevent malnutrition.
– In Senegal, on a 'non-crisis year' over 300 000 of children <5years are underweight (85 000 severely so)
● Population growth, urbanisation, rising incomes increasing demand for dairy products
– Annual population growth rate 2.4%
– 2/3 of births in urban areas
– 35% of the population below international poverty line
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(Statistics by UNICEF)
Background: Why milk
● Improved domestic small and moderate scale dairy sector has potential
– To improve the access to milk for poor people
– To strenghten the (SMB) job generation around the milk value chain
– Improve the national trade balance
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The expanding Senegalese dairy system
● Periurban dairy
– Traditional breeds
● Adapted low output, but low inputZebu Gobra, Djakore (Zebu Gobra x N’dama cross), + rare
– Introduced European/Brazilian breeds
● Non-resilient high output, but high inputHolstein-Friesan, Montbeliard,Jersey,Girolando,Guzerat, Gir, Brown Swiss, Norman, Abondance, Ayrshire, Guernsey,Milking shorthorn
– Unstructured crossing
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Research - Capacity building – Outcome - ImpactThe project aims to speed the dairy sector development by addressing three research questions:
1) What type of cow f i ts the Senegalese smal l and medium-scale dairy farms?
– What is the importance of production quantity and quality compared to management requirements or resilience in these production environments?
2) How do the current ly ut i l ized breeds and breed composites perform relat ive to each other on the Senegalese farms?
– Are some of the emerged development paths clearly worth concentrating on?
3) How to improve the avai labi l i ty of desired catt le types to smal l and medium-scale farmers?
– Are there clear practical problems preventing sector development where the preferred path is identified?
– Will focus on fewer cattle types improve farmer access to the desired cattle types?
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Research - Capacity building – Outcome - ImpactThe research combines use of genomic tools, field surveys and monitoring Breed / Cross-breed Types in Senegal
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Research - Capacity building – Outcome - ImpactCapacity building is built within the research:
1) Phd-student in a Senegalese University
– With supervision by ILRI and support by MTT and HU.
– Visits to Finland
2) Farmer training during the monitor ing phase, andafter the results are avai lable.
– By local experts and 'masters', and project staff
– General information on management and breeding, available extension services, cost-benefit analyses...
3) Institut ional capacity strenghtening
– Participatory workshops to analyse the institutional arrangements and novel ways to improve (along the idea of innovation platforms).
– Policy briefs, publications, leaflets
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Research - Capacity building – Outcome - ImpactCapacity building is built within the research:
Outcomes
● Increased use of the most appropr iate dairy breed / cross-breed types
– Promotion based on evidence
● Improved dairy germplasm production anddel ivery systems
– Improved focus and new ways to work
Impact
● Strengthened dairy value chain
– Enhanced household and regional food and nutritional security
– Improved livelihoods,
– Business and employment opportunities
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Schedule (Research)
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2013: Blood sampling and DNA extraction: monitored animals and reference animals2013/14: Genotyping, breed composition analysis and evaluation of breed impact
Thank you!
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Research - Capacity building – Outcome - ImpactCapacity building is built within the research:
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Research - Capacity building – Outcome - ImpactCapacity building is built within the research:
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