Identifying investment opportunities for ruminant livestock feeding in developing countries
Reports & Research
Novembre, 2012
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A training film made by Mojo for Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) project, Marsabit, Kenya.
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.
Insuring African livestock: Development of the world's first insurance for African pastoralist herders.