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Policy briefSmall livestock development in Rwanda: enhancing the policy environment for pig and poultry value chains 2023
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No results found.In recent years, much has been accomplished to develop the small livestock subsector in Rwanda. The Livestock Master Plan (LMP) 2017–2022 and the Fourth Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation (PSTA 4) 2018–2024 have proposed and attracted investments that have improved productivity of small livestock value chains including better piggery and poultry genetics, feeds and health services. However, this subsector still faces many problems related to policy and the enabling environment. Those problems were identified by a policy analysis involving stakeholder consultations in September and October 2022 and a national policy dialogue held in November 2022, jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agricultural and Animal Resources (MINAGRI). The study was supported by the European Union under the FAO-led TAP-AIS project “Developing capacities in agricultural innovation systems: scaling up the Tropical Agriculture Platform Framework”. The main problems facing small livestock development in Rwanda include: - insufficient access to affordable, suitable and nutritious animal feeds; - limited or poor market infrastructure and processing facilities for animal products; - limited extension and animal health services to control disease outbreaks; - financial constraints to smallholder farmers’ participation in different small livestock value chains; - insufficient means of transport and logistics services for live animals and animal products; - limited access to improved animal breeds; and - poor links between small livestock farmers, feed producers and animal processing facilities. -
Policy briefAfrica Sustainable Livestock 2050: Public–private engagement at local level to support One Health policy implementation
A stepwise approach based on experiences from the poultry value chain in Uganda
2023Also available in:
No results found.Uganda has a relatively comprehensive policy and regulatory framework to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases and AMR along the livestock value chain. Its full implementation, however, remains a challenge. One of the reasons is that there is little systematic information on the challenges and constraints policy implementers face on the ground. The FAO, through the Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 Project, has joined forces with the government of Uganda and the district governments of Mukono and Wakiso and other stakeholders to support the implementation of the existing policy and regulatory framework along the poultry value chain. This brief provides a summary of the efforts made over the past two years in close collaboration with private and public stakeholders. -
Book (stand-alone)Livestock sector report
A review of the livestock sector in Malawi in 2021
2022Also available in:
No results found.The livestock sector in Malawi contributes at least 22.4 percent to the GDP (6.6 percent). Despite such a significant contribution to the economy, the livestock sector received only 0.8 percent of the government funding allocated to agriculture annually from 2012 and 2020. However, the livestock sector has a lot of potential to grow and contribute more to the economy. Currently, the sector is not able to produce enough to satisfy local demand and there are many opportunities for the sector to supply livestock and livestock products to external markets. This report captures findings from a review of the livestock sector in Malawi, which was conducted in 2021. Major recommendations from the review are: to increase public and private sector investment in the livestock sector; to increase the number of livestock and livestock inputs supported in the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP), to create specialist officer positions such as livestock officer (dairy), livestock officer (poultry) in the livestock sections; to increase the number of livestock extension workers by increasing the number of assistant veterinary officers (AVOs) and recruiting at least one assistant livestock development officer (ALDO) per agricultural extension planning area (EPA); and to make livestock sections in district agriculture offices more autonomous for them to have more say and control over budgeting issues so that the livestock sections can be more appropriately funded.
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