Margaret Syomiti traces her love of livestock back to her grandmother, a farmer in Kenya’s Kwale district. “When a hyena killed my grandmother’s fattest goat, she brought all the others into the house to sleep beside her,” recalls Syomiti, who says this incident inspired her desire to improve the livelihoods of livestock farmers. Syomiti is currently working on a proposal for a project designed to optimize the use of available crop residues and agro-industrial by-products in order to introduce feed block technology, and other valueaddition options, to smallholder livestock keepers.