Resilient African Feed and Fodder Systems (RAFFS)

National Guidelines for initiating and operationalising Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Feed and Fodder Sector

AU-IBAR (2025-07)

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) present a promising strategy to bridge this gap. Governments can leverage public assets, such as land, existing irrigation canals, or extension services, while private sector players bring ...

Guidelines on Knowledge Management, Communications, Visibility, and Visibility for the Feed and Fodder Sector

AU-IBAR (2025-07)

These guidelines provide a comprehensive framework for Knowledge Management, Communications, Visibility, and Advocacy aimed at supporting Member States in developing and transforming their Feed and Fodder subsectors into ...

African Women in Animal Resources Farming and Agribusiness Network (AWARFAN)

AU-IBAR (2025-07)

The African Women in Animal Resources Farming and Agribusiness Network (AWARFAN) is a continental initiative that unites women involved in livestock and fisheries-related enterprises across Africa. The AWARFA network was ...

Guidelines for African Feed and Fodder Data Ecosystems: Indicators, Dashboards, Data-As-A Service, and Monitoring

AU-IBAR (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

AU-IBAR (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

AU-IBAR (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

AU-IBAR (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

AU-IBAR (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

AU-IBAR (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

AU-IBAR (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

AU-IBAR (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 ...

Guidelines for establishment of the Apex Africa Dairy Alliance

AU-IBAR (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)

AU-IBAR (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 ...

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

Human, Hannelie; Aguddah, Edwin; Gowe, Jacqueline; ... (6 authors) (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

AU-IBAR (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

Ossiya, Dr. Sarah Ashanut; Mwene Lumba, Patricia; Muganda, Leonard; ... (6 authors) (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 ...