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Our first newsletter of 2023 is addressing a growing community of dairy professionals in East Africa. We are also happy to share progress on a number of initiatives that started last year.

In this edition you will find updates on manure management and forage production as well as a report of a visit to the dairy industry in Burundi. You can also read about training opportunities with the DSAT and Rumen8 tools and an interview with the NEADAP coordinator for Uganda, Steven Aikiriza.

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NEADAP NEWSLETTER ISSUE 2 - MARCH 2023

The e-course on food system transformation held its third webinar on March 8.  The session was facilitated by Ir. Joost Guijt, Knowledge Manager at WCDI. Here you can watch the presentations by our two guest speakers:

·        The first presentation is by Dr. Chris Béné, Senior Policy Advisor at the Alliance of Bioversity and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (ABC). He is currently affiliated to the CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group and seconded to the Wageningen Economic Research Group (WEcR) in the Netherlands. Chris shares his insights into the political economy of food systems and food systems governance.

·        The second presentation is by Dr. Rebecca Sarku, who is affiliated with the University of Leeds, University for Development Studies, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and ClimAgri-Food Consult. She is an expert in climate adaptation, climate information services, designing innovative governance arrangements, adaptive decision-making, and digital technologies for agriculture and sustainable food systems.  Rebecca talks about top-down governance, barriers to information such as gender norms, expectations and patriarchal values. She dived deeper into informational governance and the accessibility gap, and how hybrid governance could work through multiplicity, intertwinement, public-private partnerships and coalescence with its respective implications.

E-course on Food System Transformation

E course guest talks:  Chris Béné (CIAT) and Dr Rebecca Sarky (ClimAgri-Food Consult Ghana). Governance of food system transformation

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Food systems resilience, as simple as knowing your ABCD?

NEADAP conducted a scoping visit to Burundi from 23 to 27 October 2022, with the support of value chain expert Pierre Claver under the SNV PADANE project.

Visit to Burundi

In East African dairy farming systems, manure is a valuable but often underutilized resource that can cause pollution of surface and underground water resources when not stored or applied properly. This is especially true in (semi)-zero-grazing systems, particularly in peri-urban areas with limited land near the Zero Grazing Unit (ZGU). Solid dung is typically stored without cover, and much of the urine is lost through seepage or runoff during shed cleaning. As a result, 50-70% of the nitrogen in manure and 25-45% of potassium are commonly lost. Despite this, most of the manure is used close to the homestead for kitchen gardens or cash crops.

Improving manure management practices in Kiambu

Steven Aikiriza is the new coordinator for NEADAP activities in Uganda. In NEADAP, Steven will be the country coordinator for Uganda. His role will involve coordinating technical support to various key partners and stakeholders in order to adapt and scale up NEADAP's innovative arrangements and technologies in the dairy sector in Uganda.

Meet Steven Aikiriza

Damaris Kikwai is working on a list of recommend forage varieties for farmers and dairy professionals in the NEADAP community. Forages such as grasses, cereals and legumes but also crop residues play a key role in milk production. But how to choose the forage that best fits in the situation and ambitions of your farm? In this article, Damaris explains why forages are important and how the Forage Finder is being developed. The Forage Finder will be launched by NEADAP in the next quarter.

Forage Finder: a list of recommended forage varieties for Kenya

Forage production is a main cost component in each dairy farm. For NEADAP, Damaris Kikwai and Jos Creemers are looking into the costs of production as well as the nutritional values of tropical forages. Accurately calculating these costs and values can help dairy farmers and other dairy professionals determine margins and assess the financial feasibility of different feeding options. The aim is to develop a tool that supports farms to calculate the cost of forage production.

Introducing the Cost of Forage Production tool

After three fruitful years, the YALTA initiative, a collaboration between NFP and the IKEA Foundation, concluded its work last December. Its been quite a journey and to celebrate and reflect on YALTAs many achievements, not least the creation of a new generation of young agripreneurs, we created an online publication that offers an in-depth illustration of the programmes key lessons, outcomes and results.

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Biovision Africa Trust, PELUM and others are hosting the 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference, taking place on March 21-24, in Nairobi and online. YALTA will co-lead the conference track on Youth and Women in Agroecology with a keynote speech on how to make agroecology attractive for youth.

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This conference aims to invoke consciousness and motivate regional and continental communities to dialogue how to invest in interventions which can ameliorate the negative impacts of the current unsustainable food systems by transitioning towards more environmentally friendly solutions with long-term vision and planning.
The conference will be held at Safari Park Hotel and will include exhibitions, plenary and breakout sessions as well as field excursions to agroecological enterprises. The conference will be a hybrid event comprising in-person attendance and livestreaming for on-line participants.
Would you like to join? <a href="https://eaac2023.exordo.com/login">Register here!</a>
YALTA's former regional Youth lead and Uganda coordinator Richard Mugisha will share the lessons and achievements of the YALTA initiative. Together with BIBA Kenya, YALTA will co-facilitate a parallel session about women and youth engagement in agroecology, to inform a statement towards Eastern African policy makers. 
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