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Nicaragua smallholder dual-purpose cattle value chain – Intermediate development outcomes

SHORTER-TERM EXPECTATIONS

IDO 1 IDO 2 IDO 3

• Increased 100% average milk yield per cow and daily liveweight gain per animal • Increased calving rate from 45 to 70% • Increased 100% stocking rate

• Increased 80% (at least) milk supplied from small scale farming • 90% of milk produced by small farmers inserted in formal market sector • Increased 30% (at least) steers delivered for slaughter

• Small farmer incomes increased by 100% and employment by 50% along the value chain • 100% increase of male and 200% increase of female farmers in access to high value formal markets

IDO 4 IDO 5 IDO 6

• Increase by 50% of animal source food (women and children under 5)

• 60% grassland covered by silvopastoral systems • 20% of area in the field sites used for forest production • 100% of water sources (rivers, creeks, waterholes) protected • 50% of farmers benefitting from ecosystem services

• 2 R4D platforms on sustainable dual purpose livestock and > 5 innovation platforms established • Development actors assessing value chains outside target areas and implementing innovations • Policies developed and implemented on improving infrastructure and enhancing natural resource integrity

PRODUCTIVITY AND

NATURAL RESOURCE INTEGRITY

- Forages and feeding - new germplasm integrated in small- and medium-scale farming systems, dry season options, and alternatives for humid systems

- Applied technologies (crop-livestock integration, silvopastoral systems)

- Increase in milk production (emphasis on dry season) and milk quality (hygiene)

- Development of ecosystem services

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND

IMPROVEMENT / MARKETS

- Strong emphasis on processing (quality, food safety)

- Development of (new and niche) markets

- Strong private sector involvement (dairy and meat industry)

- Added value (products, certification, carbon off-/insetting)

- Greater farmer access to higher value, formal markets

- Dissemination by government agencies, NGOs

1) Increased livestock productivity in small-scale production systems (SLO 1,2) 2) Increased quantity of the targeted commodity supplied by small-scale production and marketing systems (SLO 1,2,3) 3) Increased employment and equitable income for low-income actors in the target value chains (SLO 2) 4) Emphasizing the target commodities in filling the nutrient gap for the poor, particularly for nutritionally vulnerable populations (women of reproductive age and young children) (SLO 3) 5) Lower environmental impacts and higher benefits per unit of commodity produced (SLO 1,4) 6) Policies and development actors supporting the development of pro-poor small-scale production and marketing systems, paying special attention to increasing the participation of women within the value chains (All SLOs)

INTERMEDIATE DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES (IDOs)