Climate Smart Dairy Eritrea

The CSARIDE project promoted market-led agricultural development, building on the experience of the Irish partners who have been working on a pilot dairy project in Zoba Debub over the previous eight years. The pilot project was absorbed into CSARIDE with the overall objective of promoting inclusive, sustainable and climate-relevant transformation of the Eritrean dairy value chain to enhance food and nutrition security, reduce poverty, create job opportunities for young people, and promote resilience to climate change while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

The project targeted the following dairy value chain actors and the key public sector support agencies:

• Resource-poor livestock farmers
• Private and co-operative input and output market agents and service suppliers, including milk collection and processing entities and dairy farmers’ associations, as well as AI and veterinary services
• Small-scale entrepreneurs (e.g. Eritrea Women in Agri-Business Association)
• Public-sector bodies including the National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI), Hamelmalo Agricultural College (HAC), MoA, and regional governments (Zobas)

CSARIDE focused on the entire dairy value chain from farm to market in three Zobas, namely Debub, Maekel and Anseba (the main dairying areas in the country). The project complemented ongoing Ministry actions in those areas as well as other internationally-funded development projects in Eritrea linked to the EU Delegation in Eritrea, IFAD, FAO and ILRI.

Publications

• Factors Affecting Smallholders’ Perception of Climate Change in Eritrea
• Economic assessment of feeding forage-based diets to dairy goats under smallholder production systems in Gash-Barka region, Eritrea
• Shelf life extension for yogurt production in circumstances of regular power outages – Eritrean Yogurt Study
• Intra-household decision making in Eritrea: implications on market participation and choice of marketing channels in dairy production
• Modelling Land Degradation (LD) Using Geospatial Techniques for Agricultural and Environmental Management Case Study: Alla Catchment; Dekemhare-Eritrea
• Understanding smallholder dairy productivity and poverty reduction in Eritrea: An A-WEAI approach
• Efficiency estimation and determinant in Small-scaleDairy Production in Eritrea
• The productive and reproductive performance of Barka cattle: A review
• Prevalence, aetiology and host and management factors associated with bovine mastitis in dairy cows in Zoba Anseba, Eritrea: a cross-sectional study
• Improvement of Feed Intake, Digestibility and Lactation Performance of Hassani Dairy Goats by Supplementing Sorghum Stover-Based Diets With Alfalfa and Elephant Grass