Sheep and goats in Ethiopia
Sheep and goats in Ethiopia
Food safety is one component of the small ruminant value chain in Ethiopia and integrated into the overall activities of CRP3.7 (Livestock and Fish) led by ILRI.
SFFF country coordinator: Aklilu Feleke, Addis Ababa University country support by Freie Universität Berlin (Prof Reinhard Fries, Dr Max Baumann)
Activities 2012 1. Site selection (no SFFF participation)
- Targeting Ethiopia
- site selection process
- stakeholder meeting for site selection, July 6, 2012 (narrowing down); Dr Girma Zewde attended
- stakeholder meeting for site selection, August 6, 2012; Dr Girma Zewde attended ( see update here)
- selected sites
2. Partners and actors landscape scoping for stakeholder engagement
- food safety stakeholders (June 2012)
3. Develop methods and tools for value chain assessment
- guidelines rapid integrated assessment for food safety and nutrition (as of Nov 17, 2012 developed by ILRI/RVC)
4. Rapid value chain assessment:
- training of enumerators by Tamsin Dewé (November 2012)
- rapid integrated assessment of food safety and nutrition - qualitative (December 2, 2012 - January 18, 2013)
summary of findings on the sheep value chains in the Ethiopian Highlands (Horro, Menz, Doyogana) - presented March 14/15, 2013 in Addis Ababa summary of findings on the goat value chains in Atsbi, Abergelle-Tigra, Abergelle-Sekoto - presented on March 19/20, 2013 in Mekelle summary of findings on the goat and sheep meat value chains (Shinelle and Borana) - presented on April 1/2, 2013 in Debre-Zeit
- draft report of qualitative assessment (by Tamsin Dewé as of 15 March 2013)
- in-depth assessment: biological sampling/ questionnaire survey - quantitative (start June 2013)
5. Situational analysis
8. Review of (grey) literature, successes/failures, best-bet interventions
- ongoing
Activities year 2 and 3 (2013-2015) 9. Piloting of best-bet interventions
10. Continuous stakeholder engagement, dissemination of Findings
11. Upgraded curricula
