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Second FAO Electronic Conference on Tropical Feeds
Livestock Feed Resources within Integrated Farming Systems
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Abstract of the thirty fourth paper, from E. Murgueitio and R.
Espinel.

Questions that might stimulate discussion on this topic
include:

1. Do you think that networking developing countries as it has
been done in this example is a cost-effective way for
promoting appropriate technologies for animal production in
the tropics?

2. Do you know other networks of this kind that have remained
fully active after the phasing out of the external support?

3. How can the cooperation at national and international
levels between Governmental Offices, NGOs and the private
sector be improved for promoting appropriate technologies for
animal production?

4. According to you, can E-mail and Internet (for example
through electronic conferences, news groups...) play a major
role in this respect in the near future?

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THE OUTCOME OF NETWORKING 24 LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN
COUNTRIES ON INTEGRATED USE OF SUGAR CANE AND LOCAL RESOURCES
IN ANIMAL FEEDING (THE CIPAV EXPERIENCE)

Enrique Murgueitio R. and Ruben Espinel M.

Centre for Investigation in Sustainable Systems of 
Agricultural Production (CIPAV Foundation)
Cali, Colombia, South America
E-mail: cipav@cali.cetcol.net.co

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ABSTRACT

In 1993, FAO instigated a cooperation agreement for the
establishment of the Information Network for Tropical America
and the Caribbean on the utilization of the sugar cane and
other locally available resources for animal feeding. The
Network funded by France includes Antigua and Barbuda,
Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala,
Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint
Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

The objectives of the Network are:

I) to promote, the exchange of technical information,
practical and theoretical experience, and training methods,
within and between countries.

ii) to organize practical demonstrations of the most
appropriate techniques under local conditions in the countries
with limited experience of the new production systems.

iii) to promote the evaluation and production of local plant
genetic resources, which complement rations based on sugar
cane, through the exchange of appropriate plant genetic
material among the countries of the Network.

In order to fulfill these objectives, FAO has commissioned the
Colombian NGO "The Centre for Research in Sustainable Systems
of Agricultural Production" (The CIPAV Foundation) to be the
Central Organization, with 10 years' experience in the
generation of agricultural technologies based on the use of
sugar cane, forage trees and organic residues for animal
feeding, decontamination of water and gas production by means
of continuous-flow-plastic-biodigesters, and pioneer in the
production of a computerized scientific journal.

KEY WORDS: integrated systems, sugar cane, supplementation,
protein forages, publications, network, international
cooperation, Latin America

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