Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach

Livestock is an integral part of Ethiopian Agriculture contributing to food and nutrition, income, draft power, manure, transport, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and social insurance. The sector serves as the nerve system for the country’s economic and social development through providing energy, reso...

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Autores principales: Regassa, Bekele, Gudissa, Mulugeta, Ayele, Kalkidan, Mwendia, Solomon, Notenbaert, An
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179467
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author Regassa, Bekele
Gudissa, Mulugeta
Ayele, Kalkidan
Mwendia, Solomon
Notenbaert, An
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Gudissa, Mulugeta
Mwendia, Solomon
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Gudissa, Mulugeta
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Mwendia, Solomon
Notenbaert, An
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description Livestock is an integral part of Ethiopian Agriculture contributing to food and nutrition, income, draft power, manure, transport, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and social insurance. The sector serves as the nerve system for the country’s economic and social development through providing energy, resources and means to the mixed farm operation that is the backbone of the country’s economy. However, the sector is underdeveloped. To unlock the sector’s full potential, it is essential to identify critical gaps and implement targeted and strategic interventions. With over 70 million Cattle population, Ethiopia ranks 1st in Africa and 5th in the Globe. In contrast, in the 2025 Global hunger index, the country ranked 100th out of 123 countries indicating serious levels of hunger, where 19.7% of the population is undernourished, 35.5% of children under five are stunted, 6% of children under five are wasted and 4.6% of children die before their fifth birthday (GHI, 2025). Solving livestock feed related problems can shorten the path to economic and social development in Ethiopia. Hence, the Alliance of Bioversity international and CIAT (Alliance) and Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) have signed Lumpsum Funding Agreement (LFA) to contribute to feed development by bridging the gap between research and development with strategic, sequenced actions and through partnerships. Training of trainers (TOT) was facilitated in Hawassa town in August 2025 for 80 experts and development agents drawn from regional to kebele levels in collaboration with the MOA. The primary objective is to fill the livestock feed gaps by expanding the improved forages technology bundles through the CGIAR Science Program Scaling for Impact (S4I) by providing capacitating extension workers to subsequently train and assist livestock producers.
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spelling CGSpace1794672026-01-14T02:08:12Z Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach Regassa, Bekele Gudissa, Mulugeta Ayele, Kalkidan Mwendia, Solomon Notenbaert, An evaluation technology transfer capacity development technology adoption livestock feeding innovation scaling Livestock is an integral part of Ethiopian Agriculture contributing to food and nutrition, income, draft power, manure, transport, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and social insurance. The sector serves as the nerve system for the country’s economic and social development through providing energy, resources and means to the mixed farm operation that is the backbone of the country’s economy. However, the sector is underdeveloped. To unlock the sector’s full potential, it is essential to identify critical gaps and implement targeted and strategic interventions. With over 70 million Cattle population, Ethiopia ranks 1st in Africa and 5th in the Globe. In contrast, in the 2025 Global hunger index, the country ranked 100th out of 123 countries indicating serious levels of hunger, where 19.7% of the population is undernourished, 35.5% of children under five are stunted, 6% of children under five are wasted and 4.6% of children die before their fifth birthday (GHI, 2025). Solving livestock feed related problems can shorten the path to economic and social development in Ethiopia. Hence, the Alliance of Bioversity international and CIAT (Alliance) and Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) have signed Lumpsum Funding Agreement (LFA) to contribute to feed development by bridging the gap between research and development with strategic, sequenced actions and through partnerships. Training of trainers (TOT) was facilitated in Hawassa town in August 2025 for 80 experts and development agents drawn from regional to kebele levels in collaboration with the MOA. The primary objective is to fill the livestock feed gaps by expanding the improved forages technology bundles through the CGIAR Science Program Scaling for Impact (S4I) by providing capacitating extension workers to subsequently train and assist livestock producers. 2025-11 2026-01-07T09:31:11Z 2026-01-07T09:31:11Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179467 en Open Access application/pdf Regassa, B.; Gudissa, M.; Ayele, K.; Mwendia, S.; Notenbaert, A. (2025) Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach. CGIAR Scaling for Impact. 12 p.
spellingShingle evaluation
technology transfer
capacity development
technology adoption
livestock feeding
innovation scaling
Regassa, Bekele
Gudissa, Mulugeta
Ayele, Kalkidan
Mwendia, Solomon
Notenbaert, An
Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach
title Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach
title_full Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach
title_fullStr Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach
title_full_unstemmed Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach
title_short Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach
title_sort turning scaling for impact s4i livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach
topic evaluation
technology transfer
capacity development
technology adoption
livestock feeding
innovation scaling
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179467
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