Better nutrition for improved animal productivity Increasing livestock

Better nutrition for improved animal productivity Increasing livestock productivity and production through more nutritious animal feed Why? § Improved feeding increases animal productivity, ensuring a regular supply of affordable livestock products to the market § Better fed animals are more productive and have a lower environmental footprint § Rising demand for quality animal feed offers lucrative opportunities for the establishment and expansion of forage seed businesses. Products § A feed assessment tool adopted in more than a dozen African and Asian countries, enabling the identification of available feed resource capacities § Enhanced the nutritious quality of crop residue feed resources through the application of renewal biofuel technologies § 10– 15% reduction in feed costs due to the use of high quality cassava peel mash replacing maize in poultry rations § Decision-making tools to guide best-bet investments in feed production § § Improved processing technologies to increase the supply of animal feed § More nutritious and productive plant varieties § Renewable biofuel technologies to improve the nutritive value of feed We thank all donors that globally support our work through their contributions to the CGIAR system resources. This poster is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 International Licence (January 2018) Expansion of Ethiopian forage seed businesses from USD 20, 000 to over USD 600, 000 over two years