Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development approaches (MilkIT)
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Item Characterization of livestock production systems and the potential to enhance productivity through improved feeding in Mbwade, Tanzania(Report, 2013-02) Wassena, Fred J.; Mbeho, Anthony; Jackson, Marry; Msaki, Damas; Bakengesa, Innocent; Lukuyu, Ben A.Item How are Indian women using milk and tech for better lives?(News Item, 2020-08-02) Wight, AndrewItem Stimulating smallholder dairy market and livestock feed improvements through local innovation platforms in the Himalayan foothills of India(Journal Article, 2020-08) Ravichandran, Thanammal; Teufel, Nils; Capezzone, Filippo; Birner, Regina; Duncan, Alan J.Item Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development approaches: Grant results sheet(Brief, 2017-01-30) International Fund for Agricultural DevelopmentItem Innovation platforms for agricultural development case studies: The MilkIT innovation platform in India case study(Training Material, 2016-12) International Livestock Research InstituteItem MilkIT innovation platform impact assessment in India and Tanzania(Presentation, 2014) Subedi, S.; Pham Ngoc DiepItem Innovation platforms for dairy development in India and Tanzania(Video, 2016-07-17) Ravichandran, Thanammal; Maass, Brigitte L.; Mundy, Paul; Duncan, Alan J.; Ballantyne, Peter G.This animation describes how ILRI-supported innovation platforms have helped to improve smallholder milk production in Tanzania and India through the MilkiT project.Item Working out how to improve livestock feeding: The FEAST feed assessment tool(Video, 2016-07-17) Lukuyu, Ben A.; Wassena, Fred J.; Paul, Birthe K.; Mundy, Paul; Duncan, Alan J.The ILRI-supported MilkiT project has used the Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) to address livestock feeding challenges and provide solutions for smallholder livestock farmers in India and Tanzania.Item Smallholder dairying: Better marketing or better feeding—Which comes first?(Video, 2016-07-17) Teufel, Nils; Mundy, Paul; Duncan, Alan J.This animation describes how the ILRI-supported MilkiT project set up innovation platforms to understand the needs of smallholder farmers' in India and Tanzania to help them better feed their animals and sell more milk.Item Report of a livestock feed assessment in Handeni District, Tanga Region, the United Republic of Tanzania(Report, 2013-06-30) Mangesho, Walter E.; Loina, R.; Bwire, Julius M.N.; Maass, Brigitte L.; Lukuyu, Ben A.Item Theory in practice: MilkIT innovation platforms in India’s Himalayan mountains(Training Material, 2016-05-17) Dror, IddoItem The Tanga Dairy Platform: Fostering innovations for more efficient dairy chain coordination in Tanzania(Journal Article, 2016-03-30) Cadilhon, Joseph J.; Ngoc Diep Pham; Maass, Brigitte L.The Tanga Dairy Platform, created in 2008, is an informal forum of different stakeholders involved in the dairy industry of Tanzania’s Northeastern Tanga region. The platform’s objective is to exchange knowledge and develop joint actions to common problems. Six years on, it is a sustainable example of a commodity association addressing the joint problems of the region’s dairy industry. The platform has achieved a common understanding among chain actors on dairy price structure; it has successfully lobbied policy makers to reduce value-added tax on dairy inputs and products, and to remove limitations on urban dairy farming in Tanga city.Item Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in India and the United Republic of Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development approaches: Final project report(Report, 2015-06-15) Duncan, Alan J.; Teufel, Nils; Maass, Brigitte L.Item Scaling out research through innovation platforms (The MilkIT and imGoat projects, India)(Presentation, 2016-03-04) Varijakshapanicker, PadmakumarItem Effects of season and location on cattle milk produced and producer milk prices in selected villages of Tanga and Morogoro Regions, Tanzania(Journal Article, 2015) Wassena, Fred J.; Mangesho, Walter E.; Chawala, Aluna; Laswai, Germana H.; Bwire, Julius M.N.; Kimambo, Abiliza E.; Lukuyu, Ben A.; Sikumba, Gregory N.; Maass, Brigitte L.Item MilkIT innovation platform: Changing women’s lives – One cow and one litre of milk at a time – Deep in the foothills of India’s Himalayan Mountains(Book Chapter, 2016-01-27) Ravichandran, Thanammal; Teufel, Nils; Duncan, Alan J.Item Enhancing livestock productivity through feed and feeding interventions in India and Tanzania(Report, 2015-10-15) Lukuyu, Ben A.; Ravichandran, Thanammal; Maass, Brigitte L.; Laswai, Germana H.; Bwire, Julius M.N.; Duncan, Alan J.Item Dairy development in Tanzania with local innovation platforms: When and how can they be useful?(Brief, 2015-09-30) Paul, Birthe K.; Maass, Brigitte L.; Wassena, Fred J.; Omore, Amos O.; Bwana, G.G.Item Field testing a conceptual framework for innovation platform impact assessment: The case of MilkIT dairy platforms in Tanga region, Tanzania(Journal Article, 2015-01-02) Pham Ngoc Diep; Cadilhon, Joseph J.; Maass, Brigitte L.This article studies the impact of innovation platforms in Tanga Region, Tanzania, set up by the MilkIT dairy development project to intensify smallholder production through feed enhancement and value chain approaches. The conceptual framework used builds up from three socio-economic theories. The Structure-Conduct-Performance model of markets contributes its elegant assumption, linking the way markets are organized with how market actors behave, which has an influence on market performance. The framework is transposed to study innovation platforms, which can be envisaged as market-enhancing institutions, according to New Institutional Economics, the second theory also contributing notions of transaction costs to the framework. The final theoretical contribution comes from business relationship marketing with its field-tested constructs for supply chain performance. This new conceptual framework applied to innovation platforms posits that the structure of the platform (how it is organized) has an impact on its members’ conduct (how they communicate and share information), which in turn influences platform performance targeted by members (feed availability and accessibility). Empirical data were collected from stakeholders involved in the MilkIT platforms through focus group discussions, key informant interviews and a survey of 121 farmers. Data were analysed using principal components factor analysis followed by regression analysis. This study finds positive links between frequency, quality and modes of communication by livestock keepers with their perception of satisfactory feed availability and accessibility. On the other hand, results for members and non-members of the platform are not statistically significantly different, probably due to the very early stage of platform development.Item Innovation platforms to improve smallholder dairying at scale: Experiences from the MilkIT project in India and Tanzania(Report, 2015-08-01) Duncan, Alan J.; Teufel, Nils; Ravichandran, Thanammal; Hendrickx, Saskia C.J.; Ballantyne, Peter G.
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