January 3, 2012
IFAD to fund feed project in India and Tanzania
Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Fodder Adoption Project has agreed to support a project on feed enhancement for dairy value chains in India and Tanzania.
The project will be implemented by ILRI with CIAT as a major partner. The project will be called MilkIT (Milk in India and Tanzania) and the grant agreement was signed in October 2011. Activities are expected to start in earnest in early 2012 with a pre-inception meeting in Nairobi.
The projects will again be experimenting with innovation and value chain approaches to feed development. The project will be embedded within the new CGIAR Research Programme 3.7: More milk, meat and fish, for and by the poor.
The overall goal of the project will be to contribute to improved dairy-derived livelihoods in India and Tanzania via intensification of smallholder production focusing on enhancement of feeds and feeding using innovation and value chain approaches.