CIAT Visiting Scientist - PhD - MSc Student Jobs in Nairobi Kenya

CIAT Visiting Scientist - PhD - MSc Student Jobs in Nairobi Kenya

The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) – a member of the CGIAR Consortium develops technologies, innovative methods, and new knowledge that better enable farmers, especially smallholders, to make agriculture competitive and profitable as well as sustainable and resilient.

CIAT conducts research for development in tropical regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia

ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock.

It is the only one of 15 CGIAR research centers dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West
Africa.

Project Summary:

Livestock feed is a critical constraint to livestock productivity in Low and Middle Income Countries.

Livestock feed development efforts have, however, tended to promote new feeding strategies in a piecemeal fashion without
sufficient consideration of system level constraints such as availability of land, labour and market opportunities.

These constraints have an important bearing on which of a range of feed options will work best.

ILRI and CIAT have been working on feed option prioritization approaches at local level, notably through the development of
the Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST).

FEAST consists of a database of feed options which are prioritized for a local community based on a participatory assessment of local system constraints.

The logic of the feed option ranking
method in FEAST approach is scalable and we now see opportunities to develop regional “feasibility surfaces” for
different feed options by mapping system constraints using global/regional data sets.

A brief description of the methods to be used:

The overall objective of the activity is to develop maps of likely feasibility of a variety of candidate feed options.