FEED THE FUTURE INNOVATION LAB FOR LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS

E-Folder Materials
For attendees of the Annual General Meeting & Global Nutrition Symposium
January 21-25, 2018
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The materials in this USB thumb drive (or pen drive, jump drive, disk key, flash drive, memory stick or USB
memory) are provided by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. They are intended to
function as an electronic folder of useful, informational materials. Please contact us at livestock-lab@ufl.edu if
you have any comments or concerns about its usage.
All materials have been loaded into this drive by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. They
include:

 PDF brochure in English

 PDF brochure in French
 Cambodia Updates
 Ethiopia Updates
 Nepal Updates
 Rwanda Updates
 PPR Project Brochure
 Infographic: Nurturing Development with Animal-Source Foods
 Infographic: Consuming Safe Animal-Source Foods
 Press release: UF gets $8.7 million grant
 NPR: The War Against Goat Plague
 Lively Newsletter Issue 2
 Success story: Farmers in Nepal Learn To Fight Hidden Disease
 Success story: Innovation Platform Method Fosters Engagement and Consensus in Setting Research
Priorities
 Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems Annual Report FY 2016
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Week in Ethiopia Sub-Folder

The contents in this folder apply to events taking place in Addis Ababa from January 21-25. These events are co-
organized by our partners:

 Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR)

 Agricultural Transformation Agency of Ethiopia (ATA)
 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

We look forward to lively discussions during these important events.

To watch the recording of the 2017 Global Nutrition Symposium
Click here or select https://youtu.be/q1lW-L9B4N4 to access the video on YouTube. It summarizes the event held
on March 30, 2017.

Background: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

The vision of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems is to sustainably intensify smallholder
livestock systems in order to improve human nutrition, health, and incomes. Initiated in October 2015, the
program is now well established in its core target countries, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nepal and
Cambodia. The competitively selected Reach and Focus projects based on priorities developed in a participatory
manner are operational in the six core countries. An additional research project focusing on controlling Peste des
Petits Ruminants (PPR), a viral disease of small ruminants, has started in Uganda and Kenya. In November 2017,
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab $8.7 million for research on
improving supply of quality livestock feed in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso and reducing environmental enteric
dysfunction in Ethiopia. Recently initiated efforts focus on adding value to the ongoing research portfolio through
cross-project collaboration and strong emphasis on fostering scaling.
The first Annual General Meeting of the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab, at the University of Florida in
Gainesville, FL, in March 2017, introduced the Principal Investigators and projects from Ethiopia, Rwanda, and
Nepal to each other, and shared diverse areas of USAID project management. In this second Annual General
Meeting, focus will be on introducing new projects for Cambodia, Burkina Faso and Niger, reviewing results and
progress of the existing projects, and discussing how to add value to the project portfolio and foster scaling of
innovative technologies and approaches developed. Notably, the Global Nutrition Symposium that will be held on
January 24-25 will focus on improving the supply of quality livestock feeds, which was identified as the top
constraint to livestock productivity in all target countries.