DRC Writeshop in Kigali

Draft papers (working title) and lead authors

• From taboo to commodity: History and current situation of cavy culture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [Maass, Metre et al.] -- First manuscript is almost ready for review, 20 Oct. 2013 -- to be published inLivestock Research for Rural Development in August 2014! See Publications for the final citation.
• The role of cavy farming in improving small farmer’s livelihoods in Sud-Kivu, eastern DRC [Chiuri, Wimba et al.] -- submitted under the title "Small is beautiful: Cavies improve livelihoods in DR Congo South Kivu Province" for the All African Conference on Animal Agriculture in Nairobi, October 2014.

• Typology of cavy keepers in Sud-Kivu, eastern DRC [Gaston Amzati et al.]
• Genetic diversity and characterization of cavies in Sud-Kivu, eastern DRC [Bertin Bisimwa, Francis Wamonje, Rob Skilton et al.]
• Forage adoption? Challenges in post-conflict Sud-Kivu – a reflection on four years of on-farm research [Maass/Chiuri, Fabrice, Caroline et al.] -- first draft initiated during a writeshop in June 2014 in Naivasha.

Venue and accomodation

Venue at CIAT offices in Kigali, Rwanda. The writeshop starts on Monday 29.07.2013 at 8:30h AM – striving to end every day at 17:00 PM.

Accomodation at Nobleza Hotel located in Kicyukiro-Kigali, Kigali. The Hotel shuttle will pick everybody from the Airport and transfer to the hotel.

Objective

The main purpose of holding this write-shop is to bring the DRC project team together to prepare manuscripts for publication along the following themes:

• A review of cavy production in eastern DR Congo: Challenges and opportunities [review of available knowledge before the project started]
• Current situation of cavy culture in Sud-Kivu, DRC [based on baseline]
• Cavy value chain and markets in Sud-Kivu, eastern DRC [from assessments]
• Genetic diversity of cavy and inbreeding in Sud-Kivu, eastern DRC [from molecular data]
• Characterization of feeds and feeding in Sud-Kivu, eastern DRC [based on FEAST]
• Evaluation of forages in Sud-Kivu, eastern DRC [based on demonstration plots, incl. herbage assessment and participatory variety selection (PVS)]

The writeshop will include

• Reviewing existing data from the cavy project and ensure proper data entry (if there were issues, they should have been resolved jointly and well documented)
• Identify key (exiting) messages from the data collected and analyzed
• Learn about scientific publication – why, how, where?
• Produce draft publications on cross-site similarities and differences, constraints and opportunities, summary of potential interventions among others
• Produce feedback messages for the Innovation Platforms and/or identify additional research needs

Every day, we will have results from one thematic area presented and there will be short introductions into the main parts of scientific publication. Work mode will be mostly in groups by thematic areas, followed by brief plenary sessions every day for exchange of lessons learnt. The overall language is English for scientific publication.

Participants

Participant	Institution	Research domain	Mobile	Email
Gaston Amzati	UEA, Bukavu	Animal health and production		gastonamzati (at) yahoo.fr
Bertin Bisimwa	ISTM, Bukavu	Genetics		bertin_bisimwa (at) yahoo.fr
Wanjiku Chiuri	CIAT, Kigali	Socio-economy		chiuriw (at) gmail.com
Pascal Habumugisha	CIAT, Kigali	Socio-economy		pahabumugisha (at) gmail.com
Caroline Imani	UEA, Bukavu	Plant production, forages		carole.imani (at) gmail.com
Brigitte Maass	CIAT, Nairobi	Plant production, forages		b.maass (at) cgiar.org
Thierry Metre	UEA, Bukavu	Animal health and production		thierrymetre (at) yahoo.fr
Fabrice Muhimuzi	UEA, Bukavu	Forages, animal nutrition		fabriceml (at) yahoo.fr
Wimba Benjamin	INERA, Mulungu	Socio-economy		wimbabenj (at) yahoo.fr

Tentative program

Day	Date	Time	Main theme	Thematic area	Responsible
Mon	29-Jul-13	AM	Welcome Introduction, agreement on papers & working groups Scientific publication		Wanjiku & Pascal Brigitte
Mon	29-Jul-13	PM	Key messages from the different research domains	Baseline [Gaston] Forages, feeds and feeding [Fabrice & Caroline]	Wanjiku
Tue	30-Jul-13	AM	Key messages Continue to develope tables and figures and describe results	Previous knowledge [Thierry] Genetic diversity [Bertin] Value chain and marketing [Wimba & Wanjiku]
Tue	30-Jul-13	PM	Write results
Wed	31-Jul-13	AM	Material & methods
Wed	31-Jul-13	PM	Discussion + references
Thu	1-Aug-13	AM	Introduction + references
Thu	1-Aug-13	PM	Abstract/Summary, authorship
Fri	2-Aug-13	AM	Publication process
Fri	2-Aug-13	PM	Wrap up, decide on follow up actions Writeshop closure

Resources

See Research methods

Relevant information for the articles and presentations during the write shop

File:Cavy project Writeshop.pdf Presentation by Brigitte

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