Dairy & Development

Dilemmas of Scaling-Up

Cybrary

Materials of the learning event July 2

Powerpoint presentations:
-Mumias in Dairy Production - Ynze van der Valk, Farmco
-Smallholder dairy sector Lesotho and Zambia - Kees van 't Klooster and others, GART/CFC/WUR
-Public-private cooperation India - Lucy Maarse

Session reports:
-Report case session Kenya
-Report case session Zambia
-Report case session Tanzania
-Report case session India
-Report plenary session

Cases which will be presented at the learning event July 2, 2009

You can download the cases by clicking on the case title:
-Dairy production, processing and marketing in Mumias, Kenya: Dutch company Schaap Dairies encountered a number of practical dilemmas during the implementation of their business model.
*Summary of the online discussion.

-Smallholder dairy approach towards its commercialization in Zambia and Lesotho: Zambian research organisation GART is working to improve smallholder dairy production and encounters the technical dilemmas related to quantity, quality and continuity of the milk flow.
*Summary of the online discussion.

-Tanga dairy sector, Tanzania: d.o.b. foundation and Tanga Dairy Cooperative Union are co-owners of this growing dairy plant. The classic dilemma here is to balance social and economical sustainability with the interests of individual dairy farmers.
*Summary of the online discussion.

-Public-Private cooperation to enhance procurement of high quality cow milk, production and marketing of premium milk products, India: BAIF deploys an extension model for high potential dairy areas and relatively resource richer farmers. Dilemmas refer to smallholder inclusion and their linkages in the dairy chain.
+SWOT analysis of BAIF / Dynamix extension model
+Example of a (resource-rich) dairy farmer cum owner of a milk collection centre.
*Summary of the online discussion.

Heifer cases

- Case study Heifer Albania
- Case study Heifer Cameroon
- Case study Heifer Ghana


-Heifer Book Livestock and Livelihood (working version!).pdf

State of the Art Paper

- Smallholder Dairy Development, by Wageningen UR Livestock Research
- Powerpoint Presentation: Dairy Heifer
- Dairy Development for the Resource Poor Part 1: A Comparison of Dairy Policies and Development in South Asia and East Africa written by Staal et al. (Executive Summary)

Other interesting cases

-Demonstration project Functional Biodiversity at dairy farms in Drenthe Province, the Netherlands - Willem van Weperen
-Integration of dairy production in small scale farming systems in the tropics - the case of Send a Cow Uganda

- Experiences with smallholder dairy development in Egypt. A paper shared by Gerard van Rootselaar.

Background literature


-Traditional milk sector: the need for a paradigm shift - an artikel on TMS shared by Lucy Maarse
-The role of research in a pro-poor dairy policy shift in Kenya - information about strenghtening TMS in Kenya by ILRI (shared by Lucy Maarse)
-CALPI experiences with Traditional Milk Sector in India (link by Lucy Maarse)
-What is the cost for a small-scale sprinkler irrigation - article from MilkMatters Magazine by Dairy Vietnam (shared by Raf Somers)
-Dairy forage production: Change your mind! Change your ways! - Interview with two Vietnamese farmers (MilkMatters Magazine, brought forward by Raf Somers)

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