Livestock Research Profile

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Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Livestock Research Profile Peter Horne ACIAR

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Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters. The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade. [ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]

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Australian Centre for

International

Agricultural Research

(ACIAR)

Livestock Research Profile

Peter Horne

ACIAR

RESEARCH THAT WORKS FOR

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

ACIAR’s mission

To achieve more productive and sustainable agricultural systems, for the benefit of developing countries and Australia, through international agricultural research partnerships.

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ACIAR is

A research management agency within the Australian Government’s Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.

Research funded by ACIAR aims to help developing countries to help themselves, by contributing to solving agricultural problems and building research capacity.

What we do

Link developing country partners with international R&D expertise in

• Economics/Farming Systems

• Cropping Systems

• Livestock Systems

• Natural Resource Management

• Agricultural Policy

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Where we work

• Papua New Guinea and South Pacific

• Southeast Asia

• South Asia and the Middle East

• Sub-Saharan Africa

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Budget

•$A64 million (2009–2010) rising to $A87 million (2012–2013)

•184 active projects (Bilateral)

•27 active projects (CGIAR)

•relatively small, longer term, research focused, partnerships and increasingly private sector co-investment, NGO networks.

•Typical projects $1-2million over 3-5 years but programs typically longer

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Livestock Systems

Program

•Animal Health

•Fisheries

•Livestock Production Systems

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Animal Health Program

Focus on diseases of regional significance, trans-boundary diseases, zoonotic diseases, diseases affecting production and those affecting trade and market access.

14 active projects in Cambodia, Lao, Philippines, PNG and Indonesia

Animal Health Program

Examples:

•National surveillance system for classical swine fever, avian influenza, and foot and mouth disease –Indonesia

•Understanding livestock movement and the risk of spread of transboundary animal diseases

•Best practice health and husbandry of cattle –Cambodia

•Epidemiology, pathogenesis and control of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in ducks - Indonesia and Vietnam

Fisheries Program

Focus on improving productivity and sustainability of fisheries and aquatic farming systems through

•innovative resource management approaches

•the elimination of serious adverse environmental impacts arising from fishing or farming practices

•better utilisation of existing harvests

•the development of productive and sustainable aquatic farming systems.

28 active projects in Lao, Philippines, PNG, Pacific and Indonesia

Fisheries Program

Examples:

•Improving resilience and adaptive capacity of fisheries-dependent communities -Solomon Islands

•Improving productivity and profitability of smallholder shrimp aquaculture and related agribusiness - Indonesia

•Developing new assessment and policy frameworks for Indonesia's marine fisheries, including the control and management of Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing

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Livestock Production

Systems Program

Focuses on enabling more-equitable crop-livestock systems and livestock production through

•Improvements to productivity

•Enabling market access

•Better environmental outcomes

•Livestock and food safety

14 active projects in East Timor, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Pakistan and South Africa

Livestock Production

Systems Program

Examples:

•Benchmarking the beef supply chain in eastern Indonesia

•Segmenting the South African market for beef palatability

•Improving reproductive performance of cows and performance of fattening cattle in low input systems of Indonesia

•Improving the competitiveness of pig producers in an adjusting Vietnam market

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Other activities

Research capacity building – formal and informal

Active publications program

Developing new research approaches

Assessment of impacts from investment in agricultural research

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Challenges

Expand livestock research geographically

Remain focused on key challenges in each country over longer term

Better integrate research programs across disciplines

Create broader research partnerships where contextually necessary