Update on “Maziwa Zaidi” (Tanzania dairy value chain development program)

Amos OmoreILRI-Tanzania

Tanzania dairy value chain strategy and implementation planning workshop, Dar es Salaam, 25-26 June 2014

THE EFFECTS

THE CAUSES Poor access to veterinary

services

Poor quality feeds / feeding

practices

Poor disease control

programs

Low capacity to extend technical knowledge and

information

WHOLE VALUE CHAIN WITH DOWNSTREAM EMPHASIS

INPUTS & SERVICES PRODUCTION MARKETING CONSUMPTION

1. Low milk productivity

2. Poor access to production and market inputs and services

Poor nutrition Food insecurity / hidden hungerPovertyTHE IMPACT

Inconsistent access to water/

seasonality

1. Cattle keepers’ have low capacity to innovate, manage risk, reduce vulnerability, increase incomes, and ensure food security.

2. The sector is starved of appropriate credit facilities that can finance acquisition of basic inputs and services.

3. Low investment in productivity improving innovations has perpetuated a low-input low-output vicious cycle.

INTERVENTION AREAS

small-scale nature of the production systems

Low genetic

potential

Problem statement

Lack of appropriate organizational approaches

few and poorly linked BDS providers

Low access inputs and services

ASSOCIATED WITH

More milk, income, assets and better health & Nutrition

Vision: a more inclusive and sustainable development of the dairy value chain.

Long term goals

How to get there

Big Picture: Place of individual projects in ‘Maziwa Zaidi’

Aiming for research outputs made-to-order for immediate and future use

Where are we in the process?

Sites Selection

Site selection criteria (conducted in 2012)High cattle density; High poverty level; High population density; Good access to market; High production potential; Deficit areas with potential for increasing supply through feed interventions; Potential partners/stakeholders.

Assessments

1. Rapid Value Chain Analysis (VCA) in 2012

2. Safe Food, Fair Food qualitative integrated assessment

3. Best bet interventions developed in 2012

4. Baseline (or benchmark?) survey conducted in 2012/13

5. Monitoring, learning and evaluation framework developed (2013) and first survey (July 2014)

6. Ex-ante assessments to prioritize interventions initiated in 2013 (on going)

7. Feed Resource Assessment (FEAST) and Feed technology screening (TechFit)

8. CapDev assessment (2013/14)

Complementary activities

1. Situational analysis & review of successes and failures completed in 2014 (reports under review)

2. Partnership landscaping study in 2014 (report under review)

3. Workshops to define impact pathway completed in 2013

4. Several targeted studies consucted and ongoing (most with students)

5. National forum for policy dialogue formed; meeting every 6 months since Feb 2013

6. Local area platforms also taking off

Capacity development

Training training

• Forty people (13 were female) from partner organizations participated in various trainings in 2013 ranging from courses on systems dynamics modeling, feeds and food safety;

• Five involved in comms training in 2014• Nine students (5 were female) were engaged in 2013

for long term training at masters’ level and eight (4 female) in 2014

• One male student engaged at doctoral level

CapDev assessment conducted

Piloting of interventions

• Mobilization for testing of pilots conducted in 2013

• Piloting of best-bets initiated in 2013/14 (MilkIT/MoreMilkiT)

• More best-bets in the pipeline (e.g., SFFF/TDB)

• Pilot interventions centered on building hubs being tailored to site-specific plans generated across thirty villages

Key partnerships and engagements

1. Strategic Research Partnerships• SUA• TALIRI

Reinforced by CGIAR & ARIs 2. Development Partnerships• Servicing the system: Heifer and

SNV• From the system: TDB, FAIDA

MaLi

3. Mechanisms for strengthening relationships• DDF• Local area platforms

Resource Mobilization: Over 10 projects linked to Maziwa Zaidi Feeds1. Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in Tanzania and India through feed innovation and value

chain development approaches (MilkIT)2. Fodder and feed as a key opportunity for driving sustainable intensification of crop

livestock systems in Tanzania3. Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Small-Scale Irrigation in Tanzania, Ethiopia and GhanaGenetics4. Dairy Genetics East Africa Phase II (DGEA2)5. Evaluation of breed composition, productivity and fitness for smallholder dairy cattle in

Tanzania (TDG)Animal health6. What’s killing my cow? Re-assessing diseases hurting smallholder dairying in TanzaniaFood safety/nutrition7. Safe food, fair food (SFFF2)8. Rapid assessment of potential benefits to human health and nutrition from research on

livestock and fish market chains9. Leveraging Dairy Value Chain Development in Tanzania for Improved Nutrition and Health

of Women and Children10. Study on “Looking beyond income: impact of dairy hubs on human nutrition in Tanzania”Markets/hubs11. More milk by and for the poor: Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value

chains in Tanzania12. East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) Phase II Gender (and above)13. Dairy goat and root crop production (CGP)

Range of partners involved in projects 1. Sokoine University of Agriculture2. Tanzania Livestock Research Institute3. Tanzania Dairy Board4. Faida Market Linkages5. Heifer International6. African Breeders Services Total Cattle Management Ltd7. TechnoServe8. Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Germany) 9. Freie Universitaet Berlin10. International Center for Tropical Agriculture11. Royal Veterinary College (UK)12. University of Alberta13. Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology 14. Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC, UK)15. China Agricultural University (CAU)16. Emory University

Where the $$$ comes from

1. CGIAR Consortium 2. International Fund for Agricultural Development 3. The governments of Australia, Ireland and the United States,

United 4. International Development Research Centre 5. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Links for further information…

• ilri.org/tanzania • livestockfish.cgiar.org/focus/tanzania• livestock-fish.wikispaces.com/VCD+Tanzania • moremilkit.wikispaces.com/home• milkit.wikispaces.com/• www.safefoodfairfood.wordpress.com

CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

livestockfish.cgiar.org