Supply Chain Auditing for Poultry Production in Thailand

Supply Chain Auditing for Poultry Production in Thailand

Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock

Year of publication 2008

Pages 54 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Series title Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI) Research Report

Edition 1

Full item page

Synopsis (short abstract) This report provides a schematic overview of the supply chain and resource flows for three models of poultry production: backyard producer, medium contractor, and industrial. By elucidating the vertical and horizontal linkages that bind these actors into a web of formal and informal economic relationships, we want to facilitate better understanding of how actors will be affected by changes in policy regulation or shocks to the sector. For the Thai poultry sector, this is important for several re asons. Large scale industrial poultry production is one of the economy’s most important sources of animal-derived food, employment, and income. At the other extreme, smallholder backyard production remains nearly ubiquitous across an extensive low income rural population. The former group is tied to some of the most important food industries in the economy, and the health of the industrial sector is critical to the country’s trade and urban living standards. The latter group is linked through lo cal livestock markets to low income networks of small enterprises that spread pro-poor multiplier effects across most of the country’s diverse land area.

Language English

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

Document

Poultry Supply Chains and Market Failures in Northern Viet Nam
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2008

Also available in:

No results found.

Our farm surveys as well as other research in Viet Nam indicate that poultry production is important for the incomes of the rural poor and it is important to recognize that the poor are involved in all stages of the poultry market chain, not just in production. Poultry market channels in northern Viet Nam might be generalized into two or three major avenues: in one small scale farmers produce local chicken and sell to nearby markets or to urban areas through informal channels. In another, medium and large farms sell through formal, regulated channels such as wholesale markets. In a few cases, large companies have built their own slaughterhouses, nearing complete vertical integration. These poultry markets are at a critical juncture. The newer, more formal marketing chains are considered to be easier to regulate, however, if smallholders and / or small-scale traders cannot market local chicken through these channels, they will continue using informal channels due to the high levels of d emand for the local type of chicken in Ha Noi.
Policy brief

Small livestock development in Rwanda: enhancing the policy environment for pig and poultry value chains 2023

Also available in:

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.
Book (stand-alone)

Poultry sector
The United Republic of Tanzania
2019

Also available in:

No results found.

The poultry sector continues to grow and industrialize in many parts of the world. An increasing human population, greater purchasing power and urbanization have been strong drivers of growth. A clear division is developing between industrialized production systems of large and medium size feeding into integrated value chains, and extensive production systems supporting livelihoods and supplying local or niche markets. The primary role of the former is to supply cheap and safe food to populations often distant from the source of supply, while the latter acts as a livelihood safety net, often as part of a diverse portfolio of income sources. Understanding how poultry production systems and value chains work is essential in order to develop a country’s poultry sector sustainably. This review for Tanzania is part of a series of Livestock Country Reviews developed by FAO's Animal Production and Health Division (AGA). The reviews aim to support sustainable and effective development interventions and policy recommendations and contribute to informed decision-making and investments in the poultry sector by: (i) providing information and data about national poultry supply chains (with a special focus on poultry production); (ii) analysing strengths, weaknesses and prospects along the supply chain; and (iii) identifying opportunities for poultry sector development.