
The Missing Link: Increasing Availability of Animal-Source Foods Through Greater Production and Marketing of Quality Feeds
January 24-25, 2018 | Harmony Hotel | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Speaker | Video with presentation | Presentation only |
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Ms. Kristen MacNaughtan, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Video | Realizing livestock’s potential: Why animal feed is critical to achieving our strategic goals |
Dr. Adegbola Adesogan, Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems | Video | Focus on Feed: USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation collaboration on feed research and capacity building |
Poster session – Improving supply, fostering demand: Experiences in quality feeds.
Session II: Quality Feeds: Roles and Experiences
Speaker | Video with presentation | Presentation only |
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Dr. Harinder Makkar, former Senior Animal Production Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); and Private consultant |
Video | Keynote address: Improving livestock productivity, livelihoods, human nutrition and the environment through quality feeds |
Dr. Michael Blümmel, Deputy Program Leader ‒ Feed and Forage Development, ILRI |
Video | Mapping feed demand and supply |
Dr. Adugna Tolera, Professor, Hawassa University |
Video | Improving the supply of quality feeds in Ethiopia: Successes and lessons learned |
Dr. Oumou Sanon, Deputy Director, INERA |
Video | Improving the supply of quality feeds in Burkina Faso: Successes and lessons learned |
Session III. Working Group 1 – Solutions for Increasing the Supply of Quality Feed
Concurrent working groups (5) to discuss proven innovative solutions and to recommend research and development actions
Working group 1 presentation summaries and discussion | Video |
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Session IV. Working Group 2 – Models and Tools for Feed Delivery
Concurrent working groups (5) to discuss proven innovative solutions and to recommend research and development actions
Working Group 2 presentation summaries and discussion | Video |
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Presentations:
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Mr. Seyoum Bediye, Director, EIAR and Ethiopian Animal Feed Industry Association |
Video | Developing an enabling policy framework for ensuring supply of quality feeds |
Dr. Asamoah Larbi, Country Representative (Ghana), IITA; and External Advisory Board, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems |
Video | Summary (no presentation) |
The poster session at the Global Nutrition Symposium featured 25 studies with a connection to Ethiopia.
Dr. Faith Bartz Tarr from USAID, right, chats with members of the External Advisory Board of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems.
The opening panel of the Global Nutrition Symposium.
Dr. Diriba Geleti, from the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, opened the symposium by welcoming the participants and highlighting the importance of livestock.
The keynote address by Dr. Harinder Makkar addressed “Improving livestock productivity, livelihoods, human nutrition and the environment through quality feeds.”
Participants interacted with all speakers at the Global Nutrition Symposium.
Ten Working Groups presented to the full symposium.
One working group addressed "Balancing rations for productivity and profitability."
Participants exchanged valuable insights at the Global Nutrition Symposium.
Working groups allowed participants to engage with topics of precision.
Attendees shared insights from various disciplines.
Organizers from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems.
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This work was funded in whole or part by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Food Security under Agreement # AID-OAA-L-15-00003 as part of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. Additional funding was received from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors alone.
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