A new project implemented by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), in collaboration with the Tunisian Office of Livestock and Pasture (OEP), aims to improve the red meat value chain by eliminating feed gaps and providing adaptation strategies to drought. The project promotes:

• Development of business around semi-industrial feed block manufacturing units, based mainly on local agro-industrial by-products and wastes.
• Use of spineless cactus as fodder through low-cost, locally manufactured cactus choppers
• Rapid forage seed multiplication
• Making silage for better quality forage.