Feed planning mar2013
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Feed Component Planning Meeting
Addis Ababa 11 March 2013
Participants
Michael Peters (CIAT), Jane Wamatu, Barbara Rischkowsky (ICARDA), Alan Duncan, Ben Lukuyu (ILRI), Malcolm Beveridge (WF), Alexandra Jorge (ILRI)
Virtual: Michael Philips (WF); Michael Blummel (ILRI); Tom Randolph (ILRI)
Component 2013 Plan
Agenda
08:45 - 09:00: Test, verify, modify where required line of virtual communications 09:00 – 09:30: Short overview of objectives of meeting (ILRI, MB, PB). Update on L&F by Tom (Virtual) 09:30 – 10:30: Centre reports progress 2012 each 15 minutes - CIAT, ICARDA, ILRI, WF 10:30 – 11:00: Tea/coffee break 11:00 – 11:30 Synthesis and discussion of progress, failures and challenges 2012 11:30 – 12:30 Work plan and activities 2013 Milestone 1 Centre ideas/plans each 15 minutes - CIAT, ICARDA, ILRI, WF 12:30 - 1300 Discussion Milestone 1 13:00 - 1400 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 Work plan and activities 2013 Milestone 2 Centre ideas/plans each 15 minutes - CIAT, ICARDA, ILRI, WF 15:00 – 15:30 Discussion Milestone 2 15:30 – 16:00 Tea/coffee 16:00 – 17:00 Work plan and activities 2013 Milestone 3 Centre ideas/plans each 15 minutes - CIAT, ICARDA, ILRI, WF 17:00- 17: 30 Discussion Milestone 3
Milestones
Milestone 1: Cross centre working group that can deliver feed technology to LaF value chains and provide an efficient feed technology platform to meet feed technology demands from partners outside LaF
Activities
- establish a feed technology platform that provides feed analytical/phenotyping facilities in Africa (WA and EA) and Asia (SA, SEA)
- offer streamlined approaches to prioritizing feed interventions
- suggests, facilitates and supports implementation of specific feed interventions
- identify/analyze policy related constraints to better feed use
Tasks:
- Create centralized data bank for NIRS equations
- Package FEAST and TechFit tools for access of a wide rnge of potential users
- Establish a repository of successful feed interventions for dairy, small ruminants, pigs and fish with constraint assessments (for example policies)
Sub-tasks:
- Provide online platform for NIRS equation access (ILRI)
- Package FEAST and TECHFIT tools (CIAT, ICARDA, ILRI, WF)
- Repository dairy (ILRI, CIAT)
- Repository pig (ILRI,CIAT)
- Constraint analysis (ALL)
Milestone 2: Feed resources in value chains are used better with regards to meat, milk and fish production, labour, transport, feed processing requirement as well as NRM use efficiency and CFP
Activities
- Address key constraints in feed resourcing and feeding in VC in systematic, structured ways
- Optimize usage of on-farm and purchased feed resources
- Support development of small scale business enterprises around feed value chains
Tasks:
- Develop feeding and feed resourcing work as integral part of developing value chains
- Improve feed conversion into meat, milk and fish in existing value chains in Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Bangladesh
- Create a tool that supports farmers and small scale business enterprises in decision making about feed transaction and processing
Sub-tasks:
- Develop feed resource and feeding part of dairy VC in India (ILRI)
- Improve feed conversion into meat, milk and fish in existing value chains in Uganda (ILRI, CIAT), Tanzania (ILRI, CIAT), Ethiopia (ICARDA, ILRI), Bangladesh (WF, ILRI?)
- Decision making tool about feed transaction and processing (All)
- Publish invited synthesis paper on review of climate change effects on feeding and feed resources (All)
Milestone 3: Food-feed-fodder and forage cultivars with higher biomass quantity and fodder quality selected, developed and promoted and new feed ingredients identified and tested
Activities
- Identify and match superior food-feed and forage cultivars from research records to the agro-ecology and socio economic production conditions in VC
- Develop new food-feed and forage cultivars and conduct feed value chain analysis and identify actions for testing improved feed quality
- Identify new feed ingredients
Tasks:
- Identify, match, develop and disseminate superior forage cultivars
- Identify, match, develop and disseminate superior food-feed fodder cultivars
- Identify and promote new feed ingredients
Sub-tasks:
- Select and develop superior food-feed type cultivars of rice, maize, wheat, sorghum, pearl millet, cowpea, groundnut (ILRI)
- Select and develop superior green forage types from sorghum, maize pearl and millet (ILRI)
- Identify, test and promote new feed ingredients from agro-business/bio-fuel value chains (ILRI, WF)
