ILRI-GIZ FeedSeed Pilot Project: Outcomes and scaling-up
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• Overall goal: create a profitable, sustainable forage seed industry to increase seed and livestock feed leading to adaptation to climate change • Method: provide technical and business knowledge and skills to develop sustainable seed companies and promote certification to improve quality FeedSeed Business Model: PPP Approach We implement activities in logical sequence Client recruitment Technical & business training On-farm support services Networking & market linkages Photos taken by Teklu Kidane/ILRI Pilot outcomes so far: • 30 seed producers identified, trained and started forage seed production • 14 clients harvested and/or are harvesting seeds • Training on how to produce, process and market forage seeds provided to 106 development experts • Eden Field Agri-seed PLC provides demonstration site • Market linkages between forage seed companies and rural commercial farm service centers Regional distribution of project clients FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS Expansion of FeedSeed project would lead to the following results with in the next five years: • At least 100 additional seed businesses trained and mentored • At least 60 additional successful forage seed businesses established • At least 20 new or existing seed cooperatives producing seeds add forage seeds to their portfolio of crop seeds • By year 5, at least 150 tons of forage seed per year produced by seed companies • At least 150,000 poor households keeping livestock trained in seed and forage production • At least 100,000 poor livestock keepers buy seed and produce forage and feed their livestock better • At least 1,250,000 livestock keeping household members benefit by feeding their livestock better • Seed quality improved through certification program • At least 50% of the livestock keeping women are trained in forage seed production and marketing ILRI-GIZ FeedSeed Pilot Project: Outcomes and scaling-up Practical training to project clients By: Barry I. Shapiro, Alexandra Jorge, and Jean Hanson/ILRI This document is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution –Non commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License March 2015
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• Overall goal: create a profitable, sustainable forage seed industry to increase seed and livestock feed leading to adaptation to climate change
• Method: provide technical and business knowledge and skills to develop sustainable seed companies and promote certification to improve quality
FeedSeed Business Model: PPP Approach
We implement activities in logical sequence
Client recruitment Technical &
business training On-farm support
services Networking &
market linkages
Photos taken by Teklu Kidane/ILRI
Pilot outcomes so far: • 30 seed producers identified, trained and started forage
seed production
• 14 clients harvested and/or are harvesting seeds
• Training on how to produce, process and market forage seeds provided to 106 development experts
• Eden Field Agri-seed PLC provides demonstration site • Market linkages between forage seed companies and
rural commercial farm service centers
Regional distribution of project clients
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Expansion of FeedSeed project would lead to the following results with in the next five years:
• At least 100 additional seed businesses trained and mentored
• At least 60 additional successful forage seed businesses established
• At least 20 new or existing seed cooperatives producing seeds add forage seeds to their portfolio of crop seeds
• By year 5, at least 150 tons of forage seed per year produced by seed companies
• At least 150,000 poor households keeping livestock trained in seed and forage production
• At least 100,000 poor livestock keepers buy seed and produce forage and feed their livestock better
• At least 1,250,000 livestock keeping household members benefit by feeding their livestock better
• Seed quality improved through certification program • At least 50% of the livestock keeping women are
trained in forage seed production and marketing
ILRI-GIZ FeedSeed Pilot Project: Outcomes and scaling-up
Practical training to project clients
By: Barry I. Shapiro, Alexandra Jorge, and Jean Hanson/ILRI
This document is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution –Non commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License March 2015
