While it features real solutions, final content will undergo review by a technical working group and incorporate feedback from a validation workshop planned for December 2020. Please see these as examples only, and not a definitive list.
Solution /Innovation:

Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST)

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Organization:

International Livestock Research Institute

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Technical contact:
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Dr. Alan Duncan
Principal Scientist - Livestock, Feed and Forage Development
International Livestock Research Institute
a.duncan@cgiar.org
Additional contacts:
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Ben Lukuyu
Senior Scientist - Feed Specialist, Feed and Forage Development
International Livestock Research Institute
b.lukuyu@cgiar.org
Categories:
Dairy, Gender & equality, Livestock solution, Marketing and value chains, Pig, Red meat, and Sustainable production
Has been implemented in:
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Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
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Challenge

Making enough quality feed available to livestock is a major barrier to improving productivity and increasing income from livestock in the smallholder sector. Previous work has often promoted inappropriate technologies that are rarely adopted by smallholder farmers, mainly because critical. local factors, such as availability of land, labour, water, capital and expert knowledge, have received too little attention. What is needed is a more systematic approach to designing feed interventions that is based on an understanding of the local livestock farming system and that involves farmers from the beginning.

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Solution

The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) is a data-driven approach to real-time, detailed analysis of feeding constraints, taking account of the very local nature of adoption factors and helping farmers and extension services to identify livestock feed interventions that are suited to local conditions and meet local needs. This approach offers solutions that deliver on-time, tailored and actionable information to farmers and development actors, enabling them to adopt better livestock farming practices. The tool can be applied by researchers, extension workers, NGOs and private sector actors collaborating with local farming communities.
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Impact

FEAST has been successfully applied in over 12 countries and 80 FEAST reports are currently in the public domain on the CGIAR digital repository CGSpace with approximately 1500 users having downloaded the FEAST application software.

Category

Dairy, Gender & equality, Livestock solution, Marketing and value chains, Pig, Red meat, and Sustainable production

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