1. Integrated approaches to crop-livestock production and rainwater management in the Ethiopian highlands: Stakeholders’ perception
Annet Abenakyo Mulema, Zelalem Lema, Elias Damtew, Aberra Adie, Alan Duncan
International conference: Steps to sustainable livestock,
University of Bristol, Dec. 2015
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2. Presentation outline Crop-Livestock production in Ethiopia
Research issues
Integrated approach
Methodology
Results
Conclusion

3. Crop-livestock production in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has Africa's largest livestock population and the tenth largest globally.
The livestock sub-sector contributes approx. 12% to total GDP and over 45% to agricultural GDP.
Mixed crop-livestock production is the dominant farming system

4. Research issues
Severe land degradation and inadequate quality livestock feed
Productivity technologies narrowly focused
Integrated approach to crop-livestock production and natural resource management has been piloted
Effectiveness of integrated approach to transform stakeholders’ knowledge, attitudes, skills and practices is undocumented

5. Integrated approach to crop-livestock production and rainwater management
The Nile Basin Development Challenge Project (NBDC)
Three districts –Diga and Jeldu (Oromia region) and Fogera (Amhara region)
Establishment of innovation platforms
Diga Woreda Innovation Platform Members (Photo credit: IWMI / D. Tadesse)

6. Integrated approach… Problems identified per district
Free rang grazing in Fogera
Land degradation in Diga
Soil erosion in Jeldu
Fodder development intervention was the entry point
Influencing the way things were done.

7. Materials and methods Qualitative study conducted in 2014
In-depth interviews with farmers, policy makers, researchers and planners
Retrospective study
Line by line coding and counts

8. Results: Change in knowledge
Knowledge of integrated rainwater management (RMS)

9. Results: Change in knowledge cont.…
Stakeholders learned new integrated planning strategies
Wat-A-Game
Feed assessment tool
Participatory Video
Farmer Needs Assessment

10. Results: Change in attitude
Women participation in fodder production
Collective working
Use of incentives

11. Results: Change in skills and practices
Use of integrated rain water management practices
Gender differences in preference
Use of integrated planning strategies
Use of community engagement tools
Increased collaboration
Wide scale use limited by governments’ stringent top-down approach and lack of resources

12. Results: Change in skills and practices cont.…

13. Results: Change in skills and practices cont.…

14. Conclusion Positive change in stakeholders' perception (KASP)
Fodder development identified as most effective approach
There are gender differences in preference
Capacity development, incentives, transformation of gender constraining norms and policy support are very important

15. Acknowledgements
This work is financed by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF)
It is implemented in a partnership with International water Management Institute (IWMI), ICRAF National research Centers, National universities, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Water Resources etc.
It contributes to the CGIAR Research Program on water and Food

16. Acknowledgments
Policy makers, researcher, planners and farmers who participated in the study
National researchers who participated in data collection
Photo credits to Zelalem Lema (ILRI)

17. Contacts
Annet A. Mulema: