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