Driving Livestock Development with ICTs
Organised by: ILRI
The livestock sector typically contributes between 30 and 40% of agricultural gross domestic product in developing countries, and in Africa it provides livelihoods for some 200 million small-scale livestock producers. It is a source of food and nutritional security for producers and consumers and, for some people, livestock are a mobile bank providing security in times of drought or disaster. This session draws on several ground experiences that illustrate different ways that ICTs are contributing to livestock sector development: mobile ICTs being used to deliver validated livestock production and health knowledge and advice to farmers; ICTs and knowledge management putting knowledge in the hands of rural actors and producers working towards more market-oriented livestock production systems; ICTs delivering market information to livestock producers; ICTs providing an early warning system to pastoral communities; ICTs guiding livestock insurance schemes for vulnerable pastoralists. Brief presentations will be combined with interaction to stimulate co-learning, inspiration and identification of "best bet" interventions that could be taken up elsewhere.
Sessions Chair
Chair of the session is Peter Ballantyne
Head of Knowledge Management and Information Services, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
I am organizing 2 sessions and represent ILRI on the steering committee. I expect to catch up with latest thinking and experience and meet people I can learn from.
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