VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION

Based on the symposium

Extending Our Reach:
Improving human nutrition and incomes through
effective livestock research and extension partnerships

APRIL 25-26, 2019 | KATHMANDU, NEPAL

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems and the Government of Nepal held a symposium in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 25 and 26, 2019 on the theme of Extending Our Reach: Improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships. This symposium brought together ministers and key policy-makers, researchers, public and private sector extensionists, producer organizations, as well as university administrators, to discuss the global relevance of research-extension linkages for human nutrition and livestock. The symposium highlighted pathways for connecting research and extension services provided by the public and private sectors as well as civil society in different countries to foster more effective research delivery and diffusion through collaboration with extension and advisory services in developing countries.

The symposium's poster session introduced participants to a wide range of experiences, particularly in nutrition-sensitive livestock systems research and extension activities. The posters are organzied according to these themes:

Innovative Approaches Linking Livestock Research and Extension
Behavioral Change and Animal-Source Food Consumption
Policy Directives and Field Realities
Evaluation of Extension’s Nutrition Efforts
Partnerships to Improve Human Health and Nutrition through Extension
Youth, Gender, and Livestock Extension Systems

You may also download the booklet of Poster Abstracts.

Posters

Theme 1: Innovative Approaches Linking Livestock Research and Extension

No.	Title	Authors	Affiliations	Keywords
1	Factors affecting the productive and reproductive traits of indigenous goats	Joshi Arati, and Kalauni Dharmendra1	Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal	Breed, parity, conception, kidding, altitude, seasonality
2	Good livestock management practices to improve vegetable production, nutrition security and household income in rural Nepal	Raju Ghimire¹, Ramjee P. Ghimire², and Murari Suvedi²	¹Agriculture Information and Training Center, Nepal; ²Michigan State University, USA	Livestock shed improvement, off-season vegetable production, nutrition security, Nepal
3	Dairy farmers’ willingness to pay for mobile advisory services	K. S. Kadain, and H. R. Meena1	ICAR - National Dairy Research Institute, India	Willingness to pay, advisory services, dairy farming
4	Effectiveness of mobile advisory services in dairy farming: An innovative approach to link livestock research and farmers	H. R. Meena, B. S. Meena, and K. S. Kadian	ICAR- National Dairy Research Institute, India	Advisory services, dairy farming, effectiveness, adoption
5	Inclusiveness in access to livestock services in Ethiopia: The case of dairy	Bart Minten¹, Yetimwork Habte², Seneshaw Tamru³, and Agajie Tesfaye⁴	¹International Food Policy Research Institute, Ethiopia ²Policy Studies Institute, Ethiopia ³University of Leuven, Belgium ⁴Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research, Ethiopia	Extension, dairy, Ethiopia, inclusiveness
6	Conditional cash transfers and embedded extension: A mechanism to promote adoption of improved goat shelter design principles in a post-emergency recovery context	Krishna Mohan, and Prachanda Kattel	Catholic Relief Services, Nepal	Nepal, cash transfer, extension, goat, shelter, adoption, emergency recovery
7	Effect of planting methods on forage production of Brachiaria hybrid cv. “Mulato II”, Brachiaria ruziziensis and Megathyrsus maximus cv. “C1” in a sub-humid zone of West Africa	Nouhoun Zampaligré¹, Esteban Rios², José Dubeux², and Ken Boote²	¹Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Research (INERA), Burkina Faso ²University of Florida, USA	Biomass, tropical forages, sub-humid zone, planting methods, West Africa

Theme 2: Behavioral Change and Animal-Source Food Consumption

8	Empowering women and improving nutrition through livestock transfer: Lessons from Senegal	Sarah McClung¹, Charlotte Block², and Ina Schønberg¹	¹USAID Advancing Nutrition ²National Cooperative Business Association, CLUSA International	Animal-source foods, small ruminants, poultry, women’s empowerment, economic livelihoods, advisory services, nutrition-sensitive, resilience, asset accumulation
9	“Our food may not be very safe, because nowadays everything uses chemicals:” Women’s perceptions of food safety and nutrition in Phnom Penh, Cambodia	S. Morgan Brown¹, Chhay Ty², Pok Samkol², Hung Nguyen-Viet³, Delia Grace³, and Melissa F. Young¹	¹Emory University, USA ²Centre for Livestock and Agriculture Development (CelAgrid), Cambodia ³International Livestock Research Institute, Vietnam and Kenya	Nutrition, food safety, pesticides
10	Evaluating the impact of sending SMS messages to increase egg consumption among children 1-2 years of age, a clusterrandomized controlled trial in Kanchanpur, Nepal	Kenda Cunningham¹, Pooja Pandey Rana¹, and Ed Frongillo²	¹Helen Keller International, Nepal ²University of South Carolina, USA	Behavior change, child nutrition, dietary diversity, egg consumption, Nepal
11	The gift of chickens: An innovative behavior change strategy to improve infant and young child nutrition through increased egg consumption in Burkina Faso	Sarah McKune	University of Florida, USA	Animal-source foods, Burkina Faso, children, empowerment, nutrition, poultry
12	“More milk, please!” Does increased milk consumption lead to better child growth and development in rural Nepal?	Laurie C. Miller¹, Neena Joshi², Mahendra Lohani³, Sumanta Neupane⁴, Shailes Neupane⁵, and Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman⁶	¹Tufts University, USA ²Heifer Nepal ³Heifer International, USA ⁴Square One Research and Training, Nepal ⁵Valley Research Group, Nepal ⁶Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
13	Multisector community development improves child diet quality relative to other household members more than nutrition training alone in rural Nepal	Laurie C. Miller¹, Neena Joshi², Mahendra Lohani³, Beatrice Rogers¹, Sumanta Neupane⁴, Shailes Neupane⁵, Shibani Ghosh⁴, and Patrick Webb⁴	¹Tufts University, USA ²Heifer Nepal ³Heifer International, USA ⁴Square One Research and Training, Nepal ⁵Valley Research Group, Nepal	Milk, child, Nepal, growth, development, community development
14	Turning barriers into opportunities:	Lamia Anwar Shama	ACDI/VOCA, Bangladesh
15	Nutrition sensitive poultry programming and egg consumption behavior	Rojee Suwal¹, Nabin Shakya1, Lokendra Pandey², Pooja Pandey Rana¹, and Kenda Cunnigham¹	¹Helen Keller International, Nepal ²Vijaya Development Resource Center, Nepal	Nutrition sensitive, egg consumption, undernutrition, behavior
16	Assessment of existing milk production, consumption and marketing patterns	Shristi Upadhyaya, Iebu Devkota, Biplov Sapkota, and Nirajan Bhattarai	Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal	Dairy, milk, yield, breed, average rate, production, per annum

Theme 3: Policy Directives and Field Realities

17	Supply chain analysis for the Peste des Petits Ruminants vaccine	Daniel Acosta¹, Saskia Hendrickx¹, and Jeffrey Mariner²	¹University of Florida, USA ²Tufts University, USA	Livestock vaccine, Peste des Petits Ruminants, vaccines, food security, livestock health, supply chain
18	Role of females in agriculture related to work performance and decision making	Roshan Dhakal	Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal	Feminization, gender, agriculture, livestock, labor
19	Value chain analysis of backyard poultry in Nuwakot district of Nepal	Pratistha Joshi, and Peshal Kumar Puri	Himalayan College of Agricultural Science and Technology, Nepal	Value chain, market, backyard poultry, rural farmers, livelihood, nutrition, extension
20	Utilization of information sources for organic waste management by dairy farmers of rural Punjab	Amandeep Singh, Rupasi Tiwari, Triveni Dutt, and Pragya Joshi	ICAR - Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India	Dairy farmers, extension, information and communications technology, information source, mass media, organic waste
21	Cross-country analysis of human and institutional capacity development challenge in livestock systems research: Problematizing training as a research capacity development solution	Rebecca J. Williams	University of Florida, USA

Theme 4: Evaluation of Extension’s Nutrition Efforts

A three-step process for evaluating livestock and nutrition research

Marjatta Eilitta, Brigitte Pfluger, and Sebastian Galindo

University of Florida, USA

Evaluation, innovation, lessons learned, innovation dissemination, research for
development

Theme 5: Partnerships to Improve Human Health and Nutrition through Extension

23	Effect of feeding herbal medicinal residue on the performance, slaughter-carcass traits, meat quality and fatty acid composition of goats	George Dominic, KS Prasad, NM Soren, SBN Rao, and Partha Sarathi Swain	ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India	Carcass characteristics, digestibility of nutrients, Ksheerabala Thailam residue, polyunsaturated fatty acids
24	Development of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture training manual for use by extension staff in Ethiopia: The experience of the Feed The Future Growth Through Nutrition Activity livelihoods team	Jennifer Lane¹, Dan Abbott², Andrea Menefee², Amare Feleke³, Lioul Berhanu², Yigzaw Dessalegn³, and David Harvey³	¹University of California, Davis, USA ²Save the Children ³Land O'Lakes International Development	Livestock, nutrition-sensitive, Ethiopia, manual, animal-source foods

Theme 6: Youth, Gender, and Livestock Extension Systems

25	Gender roles in livestock rearing: A case from the Kanachanpur District of Nepal	Dharmendra Kalauni, and Joshi Arati	Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal	Gender, livestock rearing, Nepal, milk, cow dung
26	It’s not enough to talk about it:	Kathlee Freeman	ACDI/VOCA	Livestock service providers, livestock productivity, nutrition, decision-making
27	Popularizing fodder cultivation practices among rural women and youth: The case of Bajra Napier Hybrid	R. K. Singh, B. P. Singh, P. K. Mukherjee, Mahesh Chander, R. S. Suman, D. Bardhan, Y. P. Singh, Rakesh Pandey, and Ranjeet Singh	ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India
28	Characteristics and performance of community animal health workers	Sabita Yadav, and Luke Colavito	iDE Nepal

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems is part of Feed the Future

This work was funded in whole or part by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Resilience, Environment and 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 OPP#060115. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors alone.