This document summarizes a project aimed at enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers in Syria through improving fodder supply. It discusses assessing current feed availability, collecting baseline data on livestock ownership and land use, and testing options for effective fodder seed delivery systems including using contract farmers, volunteer farmers, and farmer-to-farmer dissemination. The project led to increased quality fodder seed production, better fodder production initiatives, and new institutional arrangements for seed delivery in targeted regions of Syria.

1. Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increasing use of fodder: Syria Report on Project Output 2: Options for effective delivery systems including innovative communication strategies and on-farm fodder interventions to improve fodder supply (IFAD Technical Assistance Grant 853) MAAR Aga Khan AsamoahLarbi, Sawsan Hassan, and Mohammed Abdullah Presentation to the FAP End of Project Workshop LuangPrabang, Laos, 15-19 November 2010 ICARDA

2. Output 2 Options for effective delivery systems including innovative communication strategies and on-farm fodder interventions to improve fodder supply MAAR Aga Khan ICARDA

3. Outline 1.1. Assessing year-round feed availability 1.2. Baseline data collection 1.3. Fodder seed delivery systems 1.4. Improving on-farm feed supply MAAR Aga Khan ICARDA

4. Assessing year-round feed supply 1. Approaches 2. Assessing household feed supply MAAR Aga Khan ICARDA

5. Feed gap assessment Feed Gap/Deficit Feed Required Feed Available National Provincial District Household

6. Assessing household feed supply

7. Assessing household feed supply – El-Bab Winter Autumn Spring Summer

8. Seasonal feed inventory, Salameih

9. Seasonal feed inventory, El-Bab

10. Baseline data collection

11. Baseline data collection

12. Baseline data – livestock ownership

13. Baseline data – land ownership

14. Seed delivery options Multi-sectoral – national, private, partners Linkages with national seed systems General Organization of Seed (GOS) Promotion of informal seed systems Contract farmers Volunteer farmers Traders Farmer-to-farmer dissemination Training of trainers – ICARDA’s Seed Unit

15. Contract farmers – seed multiplication

16. Volunteer farmers – seed multiplication

17. Seed multiplication

18. Seed multiplication

19. Seed multiplication – demonstration plots

20. Knowledge Exchange – Common Vetch

21. Seeds for multiplication

22. Seed multiplication – field visits

23. Seed multiplication – field visits

24. Seed multiplication – field visits

25. Seed multiplication – field visits

26. Outcomes Farm level Changes in seed/fodder production practices. Increased quality seed production – El-Bab. Farmer-to-farmer dissemination – El-Bab Better seed production initiatives – El-Bab, Salameih Institutional arrangements – Salameih Why..??????? Policy makers Build trust Market

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