Supporting smallholder farmers to improve the Zambian dairy industry

• Strengthening linkages between targeted dairy farmer unions and selected milk processors
• Increasing market-let milk handling, quality and processing capacity

Facilitating successful investments in the global farm-to-market supply chain

• Overseeing investments in primary and secondary production facilities
• Expertise in several commodity sectors, including livestock, horticulture, forestry, aquaculture and apiculture

Comprehensive needs analysis followed by capacity building

• Reviewed local capacity to run a 1.0-megawatt solar power generation facility in Bamyan, Afghanistan
• Provided power company staff with technical training and management support

Supporting the sustained growth of anchor firms in the livestock industry

• Bringing technical depth and resources to a three-year initiative
• Focused on animal health, food safety, product marketing and private-sector business acumen

Sustainable agricultural business solutions in a developing country

• Upskilled agriculture professionals, increased wheat and potato yields, reduced livestock mortality
• Grew farmers' average household incomes by 35 per cent

Strategic and holistic review of New Zealand’s biosecurity surveillance system

• Extensive consultation with government agencies, industry stakeholders and scientists
• Informed New Zealand’s overall Biosecurity Strategy

Code of Practice development for the production and use of on-farm biogas

• Addressed a gap in standards for the use and production of on-farm biogas in rural Australia
• Facilitated greater uptake of biogas in the pork industry

Advisory services in relation to livestock production and productivity

• Utilised a global e-learning platform to increase on-farm productivity of small ruminents enterprises
• Upskilled farmers in marketing, management and animal husbandry