 My name is Alan Duncan. I'm a scientist here at the International Livestock Research Institute in Addis Ababa. And I'm here to tell you about a project which is about to start, which we're calling the Quick Feeds Project. This project is part of a larger program called the Africa Rising Program, which is funded by USAID. It is about to start in the Ethiopian highlands. And that project is about sustainable intensification in smallholder systems. It brings together different components of smallholder systems, so the crops, the livestock, the trees, the social environment, and tries to bring those together to see how connecting those different components can lead to more effect to sustainable intensification. So as I said, that Africa Rising Program is just beginning, but as a start-up research on that, a series of what we're calling Quick Winds has been commissioned. And I'm leading one on feed and fodder in livestock systems, which we're calling the Quick Feeds Project. So why are we doing this project? Well, it's, I suppose, looking at the feed component of smallholder systems. The feeds for livestock in smallholder systems tend mainly to come from crops, so crop residues. And so there's a natural connection between crops and livestock in smallholder systems. And in this project, we're building on existing work, which we're doing about assessing feed resources using rapid methods. So we've already developed various rapid appraisal tools, such as the one we call Feast, the feed assessment tool. TechFist, which is one for prioritising feed technologies. And we're also doing quite a lot of stuff on value chain assessment. So we're bringing those tools together in this new project. But what's new about this project is that we're considering the livelihood endowments of households. So different farmers have different livelihood endowments. For example, some have plenty of financial capital, others have plenty of labour in their households, others are well endowed in terms of natural resources. And that affects the way in which they behave and the way in which, for example, they feed their livestock or don't feed their livestock. So in this new project, we're going to examine some of those livelihood issues to see how that affects the way in which farmers feed their livestock and their potential to improve their feeding strategies. And as part of that, we'll be using some of these rapid assessment tools. The project starts pretty well now. We have an inception meeting on May the 7th and 8th, so about two weeks time. And we hope to tie it all up by September, so that's why it's called the Quick Feeds Project. Well, related to Island Project, my name is Diego Valbuena. I'm working also at ILU in the International Livestock Research Institute in the System Wildlife Livestock Program. And I'm leading a project that is related to also to Island Project. So what we try to do in our project is more like research design, participatory research design at the farm and at the community level. And we are doing it because we think that research and development having really achieved for it, they don't get often the impact that they were supposed to have. So in order to cope with that, we're trying to build some conceptual approach based on many, many different literature that has been published. So we are talking about participation, we're talking about livelihoods that is related to what Alan was saying. It relates also to sustainability of your system and ecosystem services and how this will change in the future. So our project is a bit more conceptual, but we hope to interact with projects like what Alan was describing in order to like to implement and to check them. So that's basically the same as saying again, quick wind. And we have to finish by September with some ITs and we will bring together people from different disciplines and different development partners to build this project.