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Engendering gender in the LIVES project
Last week from August 19- 22, 2013, the full LIVES team had a four day interactive training session on gender and value chains in the LIVES project. The team, with different levels of experience and...
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Livestock and fish gender group visits LIVES sites in West Shoa
The gender working group of the CGIAR research program on livestock and fish recently met in Addis Ababa to find ways to engender livestock and fish value chains. The LIVES project had an active role...
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LIVES project joins hands to train university staff on value chains
(Picture Credit: UNECA http://www1.uneca.org/uncc/AfricaHall.aspx ) The LIVES project recently joined hands with national and international partners to help reinforce university based capacities on...
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Canadian gender experts visit LIVES project intervention districts in East...
At the beginning of this month, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development (DFATD) gender experts visited East Shoa zone, one of the LIVES intervention sites. They wanted to look...
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Tomatoes and onions improving livelihoods in Gamo Gofa Zone
Irrigated vegetables such as tomato and onion can easily be produced in the lowlands of Gamo Gofa Zone in Ethiopia. However, despite growing market demands by local hotels, restaurants and lodges...
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Traditional butter churn beats modern alternative in Ejere, Ethiopia
Traditional and modern churn set side by side for trial in Ejere district (Photo credit ILRI\Solomon Gizaw) One should not make the mistake of thinking that ‘traditional’ is synonymous with backward....
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Finding inner strength and hope: Livestock business empowers Ethiopian couple
One of Bizunesh’s bull calves ready for fattening (photo credit:ILRI\Addisu Abera). This story is about a couple, Bizunesh Abu (30) and Wendu Gutema (40), living in Mojo town, Oromia who are involved...
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Making a living from mobile beekeeping in Tigray: Mileat Gebrehiwot’s story
A partial view of Mileat’s apiary in Tigray (photo credit: ILRI\LIVES) Most people would agree that, traditionally, beekeeping in Ethiopia is carried out by smallholder male farmers using a limited...
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Familiarizing smallholder beekeepers with ‘Ethio ribrab’ beehives
Written by Gebreamlak Bezabih and Guesh Godifey (Tigray Agricultural Research Institute) and Yayneshet Tesfay, Dawit Woldemariam and Haile Tilahun (International Livestock Research Institute). Farmers...
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External monitoring mission visited LIVES intervention sites
External monitoring mission visiting LIVES intervention site in Bona district, SNNP Region ( Photo Credit: ILRI\ Yoseph Mekasha) The Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders...
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Mini incubators increase chicks sales for women in Tigray
A mini-incubator introduced by LIVES (photo credit:ILRI\Yayneshet Tesfay). Small-scale hatcheries are recent additions to the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES)...
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Forage seed businesses increase women farmers’ incomes
By Ephrem Tesema, Abebe Mamo, Dereje Legesse and Worku Teka smallholder forage seed farmers being trained near Debrezeit (Photo Credit:ILRI\Dereje Legesse) About a year ago (August 2015), the...
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Training and coaching gets women excited about dairy production
by Mamusha Lemma, Abule Erbo and Addissu Abera Lomi Kordofa LIVES supported dairy farmer (Photo Credit:ILRI\Addisu Abera). Lomi Kordofa is a female-headed household. She farms at Illu Aga peasant...
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LIVES gender equality strategy
Research has highlighted the crucial importance of the contribution of women to agricultural value chain development and governance in Ethiopia, according to scientists from the Livestock and...
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Enhancing gender and youth -inclusive livestock value chain development in...
By Ephrem Tesema Participants at a training (photo credit:ILRI\LIVES). Ethiopia recently rolled out its second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II) which, among other goals seeks to increase...
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Breaking stereotypes in beekeeping: Zeritu Ahmed’s story
By Ephrem Tesema and Mesfin Tefera Women making traditional hives from bamboo and mud (photo credit: ILRI/Mesfin Tefera). Apiculture is one of the new ventures introduced by the Livestock and...
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