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Presented by Thanammal Ravichandran, Nils Teufel, Alan Duncan at at Tropentag 2014: Bridging the gap between increasing knowledge and decreasing resources, Prague, 17−19 September 2014
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Innovation Platforms as a Tool for Small Holder Dairy
Development: A Case from Uttarakhand, India
Thanammal Ravichandran, Nils Teufel, Alan DuncanInternational Livestock Research Institute
Overview
• Introduction
• Project/study objective
• Materials and methods
• Storylines
• Conclusion
Introduction• Agriculture and innovation is a key for sustainable agricultural
growth to reduce poverty (Thomas and Slater, 2006)
• There has been a shift from linear technology transfer toenabling innovate
• The Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) approach stimulates innovations through (World bank, 2006)
– Process of networking
– Interactive learning
– Negotiation among heterogeneous actors
• The Innovation Platform (IP) approach is gaining ground in in many organisations and also within ILRI projects
• Members come together (Duncan 2011)
– to diagnose problems,
– identify opportunities and find ways to achieve their goals,
– design and implement activities as a platform, or
– coordinate activities by group or individual members
Project/ study objective
Institutional strengthening
Productivity enhancement
Knowledge sharing
Project Objectives
Process of IP functioning
Conflict management
Qualitative assessment of innovation
Study objectives
Materials and methods
• Study area
– Uttarakhand, 2 districts
– 2 village clusters in each district identified for feed IPs
– In each district Feed IPs combined into 1 Dairy Value Chain (DVC) IP
• Data collection
– IP meeting documentation Since Dec 2012
– Innovation “story lines” qualitative narrative of the innovations and its management over a time
(Greenhalgh et al., 2006)
Project area
Results
IP and issues
Dairy value chain IP
State dairy co-operative
National NGO (BAIF),
agriculture research institute
IFAD
Producers
Animal husbandry
department
Private
Incentive?Pushing technology
Rigid rules?
Weak voiceConflicts?
Story line-Bageshwar
Constraints identification
Jeganath SHG federation dairy
co-operative
Crossbred cows/ AI
Feed trough/chaff
cutter
Concentrates
Dual purpose crops
Napier/berseem
Bageshwar-Actors role
Constraints identification
Jeganath SHG federation dairy
co-operative
Crossbred cows/ AI
Feed trough/chaff
cutter
Concentrates
Dual purpose crops
Napier/berseem
NABARD/AH support-credit
Private milk trader
Failure of state cooperativeLow price for milk
Private feed company
Bageshwar-output
Constraints identification
Jeganath SHG federation dairy
co-operative
Crossbred cows/ AI
Feed trough/chaff
cutter
Concentrates
Dual purpose crops
Napier/berseem
Issues prioritized
New marketing channelBetter price
Breed improvement
Feed improvement
More milk production
Conflicts-Sult
Constraints identification
Link with state dairy co-
operative
Crossbred cows/ AI
Feed trough/chaff
cutter
Concentrates
Payment issues of state cooperative
AH support-credit
Religious beliefs“Don’t sell milk”
Distant of governmentoffice
Lack of confidenceIssues
Innovative champions Meeting in villages Dairy failure studyILRI/Anchal
Management
Impact of innovations• Increased communication –
demand to form IP in some new areas
• Income increase (Ex-INR 2500/HH/day in Sult village ($45), Jeganath co-operative Bageshwar-$20000/year
• New employment opportunity (13-Bageshwar, 7-Sult)
• Women empowerment (head load by woman, raising voice)
Conclusion
• Linking to better market is the first change in dairy development
• Different innovations emerges with context of situations
• Breed and feed improvement follows with better marketing arrangement
• Conflict management is key for innovation development in IP process
• Storyline is effective tool for first hand qualitative assessment of IP impacts