Summary of the LIVES Ethiopia launching workshop
LIVES launching workshop participants On January 22, 2013, the Livestock and irrigation value chains for Ethiopian smallholders (LIVES) project was officially launched in Addis Ababa in the presence of...
View ArticleLIVES research planning workshop scheduled for end of March 2013
As the big chunk of the LIVES project is action research, it will convene a research planning workshop from 26-28 March 2013. This workshop is expected to substantiate the overall research framework...
View ArticleLIVES research partners set out research priorities and areas of work for the...
In March, some 75 people from national and international research institutes and governmental agencies joined the research planning workshop of the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian...
View ArticleEngendering gender in the LIVES project
Last week from August 19- 22, 2013, the full LIVES team had a four day interactive training session on gender and value chains in the LIVES project. The team, with different levels of experience and...
View ArticleKnowledge helps feed livestock value chain innovation in Ethiopia
Supply of inputs, such as feed and drugs is one of the core activities in a livestock commodity value chain. However, this component is poorly developed in Ethiopia. One reason for this is lack of...
View ArticleLivestock and fish gender group visits LIVES sites in West Shoa
The gender working group of the CGIAR research program on livestock and fish recently met in Addis Ababa to find ways to engender livestock and fish value chains. The LIVES project had an active role...
View ArticleLIVES project joins hands to train university staff on value chains
(Picture Credit: UNECA http://www1.uneca.org/uncc/AfricaHall.aspx ) The LIVES project recently joined hands with national and international partners to help reinforce university based capacities on...
View ArticleCanadian gender experts visit LIVES project intervention districts in East...
At the beginning of this month, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development (DFATD) gender experts visited East Shoa zone, one of the LIVES intervention sites. They wanted to look...
View ArticleHelping Ethiopia’s rural women with butter processing
Women all over Ethiopia process milk into butter in rural households, perhaps with the exception of areas where consumption of milk in coffee or tea is common. The LIVES project’s baseline surveys...
View ArticleTraditional butter churn beats modern alternative in Ejere, Ethiopia
Traditional and modern churn set side by side for trial in Ejere district (Photo credit ILRI\Solomon Gizaw) One should not make the mistake of thinking that ‘traditional’ is synonymous with backward....
View ArticleQuest for the holy grail of butter: LIVES tests modern and local churns in...
Butter balls for hair treatment prepared in Ethiopia’s dairy cafes/shops (photo credit: ILRI\LIVES) Butter is a delicious and popular dairy product in Ethiopia. Improving the churning efficiency to...
View ArticleMaking a living from mobile beekeeping in Tigray: Mileat Gebrehiwot’s story
A partial view of Mileat’s apiary in Tigray (photo credit: ILRI\LIVES) Most people would agree that, traditionally, beekeeping in Ethiopia is carried out by smallholder male farmers using a limited...
View ArticleFamiliarizing smallholder beekeepers with ‘Ethio ribrab’ beehives
Written by Gebreamlak Bezabih and Guesh Godifey (Tigray Agricultural Research Institute) and Yayneshet Tesfay, Dawit Woldemariam and Haile Tilahun (International Livestock Research Institute). Farmers...
View ArticleLIVES shares lessons in market-oriented extension at the Ethiopia Ministry of...
LIVES gives seminar to MoA staff on market oriented agricultural extension services (Photo credit:ILRI\Aklilu Bogale) On 6 May 2015, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) hosted a seminar on...
View ArticleExternal monitoring mission visited LIVES intervention sites
External monitoring mission visiting LIVES intervention site in Bona district, SNNP Region ( Photo Credit: ILRI\ Yoseph Mekasha) The Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders...
View ArticleLIVES gender equality strategy
Research has highlighted the crucial importance of the contribution of women to agricultural value chain development and governance in Ethiopia, according to scientists from the Livestock and...
View ArticleBreaking stereotypes in beekeeping: Zeritu Ahmed’s story
By Ephrem Tesema and Mesfin Tefera Women making traditional hives from bamboo and mud (photo credit: ILRI/Mesfin Tefera). Apiculture is one of the new ventures introduced by the Livestock and...
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