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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.
ACIAR
ACIAR
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
ACIAR
Where we work
• Papua New Guinea and South Pacific
• Southeast Asia
• South Asia and the Middle East
• Sub-Saharan Africa
ACIAR
ACIAR
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
ACIAR
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
ACIAR
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
ACIAR
Other activities
Research capacity building – formal and informal
Active publications program
Developing new research approaches
Assessment of impacts from investment in agricultural research
www.aciar.gov.au