Introducing ILRI in Uganda

Introducing ILRI in Uganda

Danilo PezoILRI Country Representative in Uganda

More pork by and for the poor project inception and planning workshop, Mukono, Uganda, 27-28 May 2014

Uganda

Costa Rica

• The global livestock sector is growing

rapidly and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future

• Major opportunities exist for Africa’s livestock sector

• Africa recognizes the central importanceof agriculture for development − butlivestock are still often under-representedWe all need to work changing it

• Research solutions are needed totransform Africa’s livestock sector

• New investments and institutional reforms are also needed to take R4D successes to scale

Opportunities in the African livestock sector

Provides food and nutritional security BUT overconsumption can cause obesity

Empowers economic developmentBUT equitable development can be a challenge

Improves human healthBUT animal-human/emerging diseases and unsafe foods need to be addressed

Enhances the environmentBUT pollution, land/water degradation,GHG emissions and biodiversity lossesmust be greatly reduced

Challenges in the livestock sector in Africa

ILRI projects in Uganda

• Catalyzing the emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda to increase rural incomes and assets (IFAD-EU)

• Risk-based approaches to improving food safety and market access in informal markets in sub Saharan Africa (BMZ-GiZ)

• More pork by and for the poor: Catalyzing emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda for food security and poverty reduction (Irish Aid)

ILRI projects in Uganda

• East African Dairy Development (B&MG)

• Dairy Genetics – East Africa (SIDA)• Peste des petits ruminants (PPR):

developing a pan African strategy for disease control (CSIRO)

• Developing livestock traceability systems for domestic and export markets (AU-IBAR).

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