Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa

Livestock are recognized as essential assets for the livelihoods of poor farmers in the mixed crop-livestock systems throughout the tropics, while feed resources have been identified as an important constraint to their productivity. Two international agricultural research institutes, CIMMYT and ILR...

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Autores principales: Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Herrero, Mario, You, Liangzhi, González Estrada, E., Quirós, Carlos F., Blümmel, Michael
Formato: Conference Paper
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Publicado: International Livestock Research Institute 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/2473
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author Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
Herrero, Mario
You, Liangzhi
González Estrada, E.
Quirós, Carlos F.
Blümmel, Michael
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González Estrada, E.
Herrero, Mario
Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
Quirós, Carlos F.
You, Liangzhi
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Herrero, Mario
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González Estrada, E.
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Blümmel, Michael
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description Livestock are recognized as essential assets for the livelihoods of poor farmers in the mixed crop-livestock systems throughout the tropics, while feed resources have been identified as an important constraint to their productivity. Two international agricultural research institutes, CIMMYT and ILRI, therefore joined forces in a project designed to improve the value of maize as livestock feed with an aim of enhancing the livelihoods of maize-livestock farmers in East-Africa. The first issue addressed in the initiative and the topic of this paper was deciding where to work so as to maximize the chances of successful testing of the new varieties and at the same time grasp a better understanding of the context-specific incentives for adoption of these varieties. Several lessons were learnt from the process, including the increased utility of targeting when the bio-physical and socio-economic are freely combined, and the continued need for baseline spatial data to improve the targeting of research in the future that is designed to improve the livelihoods of poor livestock keepers in East-Africa.
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spelling CGSpace24732024-03-06T10:16:43Z Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa Notenbaert, An Maria Omer Herrero, Mario You, Liangzhi González Estrada, E. Quirós, Carlos F. Blümmel, Michael poverty mixed farming Livestock are recognized as essential assets for the livelihoods of poor farmers in the mixed crop-livestock systems throughout the tropics, while feed resources have been identified as an important constraint to their productivity. Two international agricultural research institutes, CIMMYT and ILRI, therefore joined forces in a project designed to improve the value of maize as livestock feed with an aim of enhancing the livelihoods of maize-livestock farmers in East-Africa. The first issue addressed in the initiative and the topic of this paper was deciding where to work so as to maximize the chances of successful testing of the new varieties and at the same time grasp a better understanding of the context-specific incentives for adoption of these varieties. Several lessons were learnt from the process, including the increased utility of targeting when the bio-physical and socio-economic are freely combined, and the continued need for baseline spatial data to improve the targeting of research in the future that is designed to improve the livelihoods of poor livestock keepers in East-Africa. 2008-06-04 2010-10-18T20:36:53Z 2010-10-18T20:36:53Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/2473 en Open Access application/msword International Livestock Research Institute Notenbaert, A.M., Herrero, M., You, L., Gonzalez-Estrada, E., Quiros, C., Blummel, M. 2008. Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa. Paper presented at 4th Workshop on Remote Sensing for Developing Countries, Istanbul, Turkey, 4-7 June 2008. Nairobi: ILRI
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
Herrero, Mario
You, Liangzhi
González Estrada, E.
Quirós, Carlos F.
Blümmel, Michael
Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa
title Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa
title_full Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa
title_fullStr Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa
title_full_unstemmed Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa
title_short Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa
title_sort identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual purpose maize based interventions in crop livestock systems in east africa
topic poverty
mixed farming
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/2473
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