Livestock conference on Thursday

Kathmandu, Nov. 28: To ensure that the research on livestock undertaken by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems in Nepal, the organisation is organizing Innovation Platform Meeting on Thursday.

The meeting will be a multi-stakeholder forum for participatory priority development, dialogue, and research to development linkages.

“The purpose of this meeting is to share with the livestock sector stakeholders in Nepal the main findings of the completed projects and provide an update of ongoing project,” said Gbola (A.T.) Adesogan, Professor of Animal Sciences and Director of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems.

In Nepal, the lab has been implementing four major projects since 2015 and planning to support three more in the coming years.

“Through these projects, the lab aims to improve the nutrition, health and incomes of the poor by sustainably increasing livestock productivity and marketing, and consumption of animal-source foods (ASF),” said Adesogan.

This aim will be achieved by introducing new location-appropriate technologies, by improving management practices, skills, knowledge, capacity and access to and quality of inputs across livestock value chains, and by supporting the development of a policy environment that fosters sustainable intensification and increased profitability of smallholder livestock systems, he said.

The lab is one of more than 20 Innovation Labs under the Feed the Future initiative of the U.S. Government, which aims to end world hunger by supporting developing countries to develop their agricultural sector to spur economic development.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 29 November 2018.