VCD+India

=Value Chain Development - India=

**Key Contact Details**
Vamsidhar Reddy Sadasivareddy, ILRI National Coordinator, Value Chain Country Leader toc

**Projects**

 * ACIAR Fodder and feeds
 * MilkIT (IFAD)
 * CSISA2
 * GETDairy (OPEC)
 * MaizeLive

**Events**

 * Ranking best-bets by the partners/ stakeholders in Bihar at Patna during 4 December 2015
 * India Dairy VC Planning Meeting at BHU, Varanasi during 24-25 September 2015
 * Workshop between key representatives of ILRI and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for discussing the Triennial Work Plan 2015-2018 in New Delhi during 21-22 September 2015
 * Presentation of VCA results from Nalanda at ICAE, Milan, Italy 8-14 August 2015
 * VC Scoping in Nalanda and Gaya districts of Bihar 14-17 October 2014
 * Workshop to fine-tune VCA tools, Patna, Bihar 13 October 2014
 * Groundtrughing for selecting districts in Bihar 15-20 September 2014
 * Assessing the collaboration potential of different stakeholders for VCA and other similar activities 8-12 September 2014
 * Livestock and Fish India small-holder dairy value chain planning workshop, ICRISAT, Hyderabad India, 27-28 August 2014
 * Livestock and Fish India small-holder dairy value chain transformation in Bihar: opportunities, challenges and the way forward, Bihar, India 1-2 August 2014
 * India dairy value-chain team meeting (May 2012)

**Tools and Resources**
Dairy value chain assessment producer sheet

Dairy value chain assessment producer focus group guide with gender inputs

Dairy value chain retailers-processors questionnaire

Workshop report on smallholder dairy transformation in Bihar

Selection of Agencies in Bihar/ India for Implementing Value Chain Assessment

**Planning Documents**

 * India Site Selection
 * India Work Planning Document

**Key Documents**

 * Situation analysis (July 2014)
 * Value chain assessment report
 * Bihar State (India) smallholder dairy value chains impact pathways narrative
 * Value Chain Assessment in Nalanda district [[file:A Report on Dairy Value Chain Assessment in Nalanda District.pdf]]
 * Policy Incoherence in Smallholder Dairying in Bihar [[file:DiscussionPaper33.pdf]]
 * A Spatial Study of Fodder Markets in Gaya and Nalanda districts of Bihar [[file:Fodder markets_Bihar.pdf]]
 * Presentation made on results of VCA at Nalanda in ICAE 2015, Milan[[file:Presentation at ICAE.pptx]]
 * Fodder Policy for Andhra Pradesh [[file:Fodder policy_AP.pdf]]
 * Roles played by dairy farming in south Bihar agrarian systems [[file:SupAgro Presentation.pptx]]
 * Reports of the agrarian system analysis in Gaya and Nalanda [[file:DelesalleKleinpeter BodhgayaBihar Report.pdf]] [[file:RabassaLasina EkangarsaraiBihar Report.pdf]]
 * First stage of best-bet selection for Bihar dairy value chain [[file:Best bets for India Dairy VCT.pdf]]
 * Ranking of best-bets by partners/ stakeholders in Bihar [[file:Report on ranking best bets in Bihar.pdf]]

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