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ILRI Feed and Forages strategy - inputs by community

Welcome

Thank you for contributing to the development of a feed and forages development (FFD) strategy for the International Livestock Research Institute.

The survey below will collect some basic information about you, and then ask for your inputs to various questions.

The survey is intended to help us identify major challenges as well as potential solutions in the area of feed and forage development.

Please respond before 17 September so we can advance the next steps in the strategy development.

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1.My name
2.My organization name(Required.)
3.The country where I work(Required.)
4.My FFD expertise(Required.)
5.My primary role(Required.)
6.The most significant challenges to better feeding of livestock I have come across or observed are (briefly describe with any additional context to help us understand the issues and why they are significant).
7.The most interesting or promising livestock feeding solutions I have come across are (briefly describe with any additional context to help us understand the solution or intervention). Note: solutions could be technical e.g. irrigated forages, or organizational e.g. novel financing mechanisms to improve credit for feed purchases.
8.Applying new tools in molecular genetics and genomic technologies is likely to offer the following opportunities for feed and forage improvement in developing countries:
9.The most significant problems in feeding livestock in developing countries are (indicate the severity of the problem on a scale of 1 to 5, from unimportant to critical):
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 Limited availability of feed
High costs of feed
Low quality of feed
Seasonal scarcity of feed
High feed wastage
Lack of suitable technical solutions that farmers can employ
Recommending the wrong solutions to farmers
Lack of feed and fodder markets
Competing demands on crop biomass which limit availability as livestock feed
Lack of improved feeds and forage varieties
Insufficient information on forage value of forage species
Inadequate forage seed distribution systems
Lack of tools for on-farm feed management and decision making
Inadequate feed distribution systems
Large environmental impacts of livestock feeds and feeding (GHG emissions, water use etc)
Insufficient land to produce feed
Insufficient labour to produce feed
Insufficient farmer technical knowledge to adopt new feeding methods
Insufficient cash/credit to adopt new feeding methods
Policies and regulations that limit delivery of feed improvements
Inadequate data on returns to feed and forage interventions
10.The approaches, solutions and interventions I see in trying to improve livestock feeding that should be AVOIDED are:
11.Looking to the future, the most difficult livestock feeding issue that a research organization needs to overcome is:
12.The most significant change I see in future livestock production that will have serious implications for livestock feeding is:
13.I am interested to keep up with ILRI research on feeds and forages; please send information to my email address