• Address feed shortages • Improve animal health (input supply and production) • Improve market access and marketing strategies • Needs-based capacity building for producers and extension agents (feeding, sheep fattening, disease awareness, food safety) • Enforce regulations to discourage backyard slaughtering Research and development ‘best bets’ Challenges in the value chain This document is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence May 2013 http://livestockfish.cgiar.org Small ruminant value chain development in Horro, Ethiopia Our vision: “By 2020, market-oriented sustainable sheep production and sufficient meat consumption in the diets of the value chain actors” • Incidence of infectious diseases and parasites • Shortage of effective drug and vaccine supply) and poor delivery of veterinary services to producers (poorly equipped health posts and transport problems) • Seasonal shortage of feed supply and lack of supply of supplementary feed • Poor linkage of producers to the markets, no market information, poor horizontal and vertical linkages between producers, traders and abattoirs/consumes • Unsupervised backyard slaughtering • Gaps in knowledge and skills of producers and extension agents in improved husbandry, disease prevention and market-orientation including attaining export quality Altitude 1600-2800 Habitat Wet, Humid Distance from Addis 315km Production system Mixed crop-livestock Human population 75,311 % of female headed household 7 Major products Meat Partners: LDHA, BARC, ICARDA, ILRI, AGP-LMD, EMDTI