Animal Production: Recent submissions
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Guidelines for establishment of the Apex Africa Dairy Alliance
(2025-07)The Dairy sector is one of the fastest-growing agricultural value chains in Africa and contributes significantly to the continent's Agricultural GDP, sometimes exceeding 30% in some countries. It is a high-value crop and ... -
Guidelines for establishing national level feed and fodder multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPS)
(2025-07)In response to recurring feed and fodder shortages that undermine livestock productivity and livelihoods, these Guidelines deliver a concise, adaptable blueprint for designing and operationalizing Multi-Stakeholder Platforms ... -
Guidelines for African Feed and Fodder Data Ecosystems: Indicators, Dashboards, Data-As-A Service, and Monitoring
(2025-07)Africa’s livestock sector is a major contributor to agricultural livelihoods (about 24% of agricultural GDP.) and employs large rural populations, including women. Feed and fodder are the largest cost input in animal ... -
Continental Feed and Fodder Multi-Stakeholder Platform Formation Guidelines
(2025)The proposed Continental Feed and Fodder Multi-Stakeholder Platform (CF&F-MSP) is designed to provide a formal apex structure to unify, amplify, and steer national MSP efforts. Drawing membership from all African national ... -
Guidelines for a Harmonized and Integrated African Feed and Fodder Data Ecosystem: Indicators, Dashboards, DaaS and Monitoring
(2025-07)These guidelines aim to provide a structured framework to support African Union (AU) Member states in the development, coordination, and institutionalization of national feed and fodder data ecosystems. The guidelines ... -
Guidelines for Markets, Investment and Financing in the Feed and Fodder Sector in Africa
(2025-07)Across Africa, the feed and fodder sector remains significantly under-invested and largely informal. While livestock is the backbone of African economies, contributing to food security, employment, and rural incomes, ... -
Communique: Partnership for Industrialisation of Zimbabwe’s Feed and Fodder sector; Harare, Zimbabwe 18-22 November 2024
(2024-11-18)A meeting was held on the dates stated above to discuss Partnerships to Support Industrialisation of Feed and Fodder Investments. The meeting was convened by Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural ... -
Sustainable Solutions for Dairy Growth: Unlocking the Potential of Feed and Fodder in Africa
(2025)The Resilient African Feed and Fodder Systems (RAFFS) Project conducted an extensive assessment of the feed and fodder sectors across six African countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Cameroon, and Somalia. The ... -
Securing Kenya’s Dairy Future: The Case for a Cooperative Fodder Fund
(2025)The dairy sector in Kenya plays a crucial role in food security, employment, and economic stability, contributing 4% to the national GDP. However, climate-induced droughts have resulted in severe fodder shortages, which ... -
Resilient African Feed and Fodder Systems (RAFFS) project Annual Report Reporting Period: 1st December 2022 to 30th November 2023
(2023)This report, ‘Engendering Greater Understanding to Set a Transformative Agenda for addressing Feed and Fodder Shortages on the African Continent,’ captures progress in executing the RAFFS project activities from 1 December ... -
Pollination services: an untapped input for enhancing productivity in crops and Fodder essential for poverty alleviation and attainment of elusive nutrition targets and ecosystem biodiversity
(2025)Pollination serves as a basic pillar for 9.5% of the world’s agricultural food production, thereby improving the profitability and productivity of 75% of agricultural crops. Without pollinators,the human race and all of ... -
Guidelines for Feed and Fodder Data Management
(2023)The Guidelines for Feed and Fodder Data Management have been developed to address the critical data and digital capacity challenges affecting the feed and fodder sector across Africa. The sector faces data fragmentation, ... -
Feed and Fodder: Critical Input for Enhanced Livestock Productivity, Human Food an Nutrition Security, Livestock Sector Stability and Youth Employment
(2025)Globally two thirds (2/3) of arable land is for raising livestock, and fifty-four percent (54.4%)1of coarse grains (such as maize, sorghum, barley, millet, oats and rye) is purposively produced for feeding animals. This ... -
Empowering Women, Nourishing Livestock: AWARFA-N’s Journey to Sustainable Feed and Fodder Model in Somalia
(2025)AWARFA-N’s central strategy involves the bulk multiplication of improved energy and protein fodder varieties within Somalia’s wetlands. This includes the cultivation of Sugar Graze Sorghum, Improved Sweet Potato Vines ... -
Women Catalysing Change in the Animal Resources Sector
(2025)The African Women in Animal Resources Farming and Agribusiness Network (AWARFA-N) Nigeria is pioneering a transformative initiative to revolutionize feed and fodder production, empower women and strengthen the livestock ... -
Sowing seeds of change: how AWARFA-N Kenya is transforming Livestock Feed and Fodder
(2025)WARFA Network Kenya Limited (ANKL), a women led agricultural enterprise, is transforming East Africa’s livestock feed and fodder market by addressing inefficiencies in supply chains, promoting women’s economic empowerment, ... -
Women Driving Feed and Fodder Innovation in Cameroon: AWARFA-N’s Success Story
(2025)AWARFA-N Cameroon was established in December 2023 as a network of Cameroonian women working in the livestock and agribusiness sector. The organization’s mission is to become the leading provider of baled fodder in Cameroon, ... -
Nourishing Livestock, Enriching Lives: AWARFA-Zimbabwe’s Sustainable Fodder Initiative
(2025)AWARFA-N Zimbabwe is an organization dedicated to empowering women in agriculture. With a focus on the livestock sector, this organization aims to bridge the economic gap between genders and enhance the participation of ... -
Report of the 8th General Assembly of the Africa Platform for Regional Institutions in Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Systems (APRIFAAS) 11 – 13 November, 2025 Entebbe, Uganda
(2025)Under the auspices of the African Fisheries Reform Mechanism (AFRM), the African Platform for Regional Institutions in Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Systems (APRIFAAS) was established in 2015 to strengthen institutional ... -
From Informal Livestock Corridors to Investable Trade Systems: Accelerating Pastoral Integration under AfCFTA
(2026-02-10)The policy brief proposes a practical 24-month corridor package to formalise Africa’s cross-border pastoral livestock trade and unlock investment. Despite its economic significance, the sector remains weakly integrated ...
