Addis_investment_Debre+Birhan


 * Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands **
 * Project Design Workshop **
 * 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia **


 * Early investment opportunities for 2012 - in Debre Birhan **

This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).

 Contents of the presentation:
 * Improvement of crop residues for stall-feeding, zero-grazing
 * Intensification, commercialization of bee-keeping
 * Rotational grazing alternative management of community pastures—better use of fallow period
 * Scaling out of Fenugreek
 * Application of Herbicides, fungicides
 * Rotational weed control with oil seeds
 * Working with State farms and AGP (for demo and capacity building projects, and to serve as input suppliers)
 * Compare conservation tillage with fallow
 * Seed multiplication for right kind of legume (Fava)

Presentation by Carlo & Dirk: