the milkit project in india and tanzania

The MilkIT project in India and Tanzania

Alan Duncan

MilkIT Final Project Workshop, Lushoto, Tanzania, 9-10 December 2014

Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation and

value chain development approaches

Origins

Origins

FAP-FIP projects

– Experimenting with IS approaches

– FIP – theoretical

– FAP – practical

• Innovation Platforms

• Feed tools

• Practical interventions (the smell of

livestock)

• Nested scales – local, regional, national

• Knowledge flow laterally and vertically

Fodder Adoption Project

2007-2010

Locations

Livestock and Fish – global value chains

Locations

India and Tanzania

– Controversial not to pursue activities in

any of the original FAP locations

– Strong push from L&F – test case for

locating projects around L&F priorities

– In India IFAD pushed for Uttarakhand

because of ILSP

– In Tanzania IFAD were keen on

Zanzibar but it didn’t fit with L&F

priorities – some tension between CG

and IFAD priorities

Objectives

Objectives

Institutional strengthening: To strengthen use of value chain and innovation approaches among dairy stakeholders to improve feeding strategies for dairy cows.

Productivity enhancement: To develop options for improved feeding strategies leading to yield enhancement with potential income benefits.

Knowledge sharing: To strengthen knowledge sharing mechanisms on feed development strategies at local, regional and international levels

Objectives




Technologies + institutions

Objectives





Value chain focus

Objectives





Value chain focus

Nestedscales

Objectives





Value chain focus

Knowledgeexchange

Nestedscales

Legacy

Legacy

What have we learned in MilkIT that

will influence other initiatives?

– FEAST – Pakistan AIS, ICARDA North

Africa ….

– Humidtropics – IP thinking

– Anchal, ILSP, CHIRAG, INHERE

– L&F Tz

International

International

Cross-country learnings

– TZ

• not a strong milk culture

• Reasonably productive environment

• Links with IFAD programmes – challenging

– India (Uttarakhand)

• Milk country

• Marginal environment

• Obvious links to IFAD programme

Livestock institutional environment

Livestock institutional

environmentTz

– Agro-pastoral – cultural barriers to cultivation

– IP’s - quick to move to structure

– Dominance of one milk buyer – Tanga Fresh

India

– Rich actor landscape

– Strong tradition of farmer organization –SHG’s

– Women to the fore

Interventions

Interventions

Tz - seasonality, scarcity

– Improvement of pasture resources

– Planted forages

– Forage conservation

India – scarcity, quality

– Feed troughs

– Chopping of crop residue

– Supplementary feed

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