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Dairy Goat Management Leads to Lasting Gains for Afghan Women

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Title Dairy Goat Management Leads to Lasting Gains for Afghan Women
 
Creator Saharawat, Yashpal
 
Description To enhance the benefits of dairy goat rearing, which is a
common source of income for poor families in rural
Afghanistan, a project was implemented by the Afghan
Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) and
ICARDA, and funded by the International Fund for
Agriculture Development (IFAD). Started in 2010, this
project was primarily geared to provide poor rural
households, especially women, with the skills, knowledge,
and initial inputs to engage in profitable dairy goat
production ? to improve their livelihoods, nutrition, and
income.
The initiative aimed to expand the number of Afghan
women who have access to dairy goats, specifically
targeting three categories of women: those owning
between one and three goats but who remain poor; those
rearing goats who need technical assistance; and those with
no goats but with goat-raising experience. The project
worked with 1396 women organized into 154 groups, across
26 villages in Baghlan and Nangarhar Provinces.
The project combined research and development activities
in which groups of poor women received technology
packages to improve goat and forage production systems.
The packages included local goat breeds; approaches for
improved dairy production, nutrition, and health;
community-based adaptive research; and dissemination of
knowledge. Technical support and capacity building
activities for the women?s groups were some of the key
components of this project. Over 1000 women were trained.
Since the supply of forage and feed is critical for the success
and sustainability of any goat raising activity, the project
also delivered training and support for the development of
nutritious feed mixes using locally grown ingredients to
replace the imported concentrates.
 
Date 2015-03-03
2016-05-04T11:45:14Z
2016-05-04T11:45:14Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier http://www.icarda.org/publication/science-impact
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/EsOAeTZx
Yashpal Saharawat. (3/3/2015). Dairy Goat Management Leads to Lasting Gains for Afghan Women.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4725
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
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