Small ruminant value chain development in Yabello, Ethiopia

• 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 (husbandry, feeding, disease awareness, food safety)

• Train unemployed in slaughtering skills and link them to municipal slaughterhouses, create awareness in hotel and restaurants to use qualified personnel

Research and development ‘best bets’

Challenges in the value chain

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Small ruminant value chain development in Yabello, Ethiopia Our vision: “By 2020, Yabello pastoralists will have improved their incomes, nutrition and health through sustainable market

oriented goat production”

• High mortality and morbidity due to a lack of effective drug and vaccine supply and delivery of veterinary services to producers

• Shortage of breeding bucks • Feed shortage due to erratic rainfall/droughts • Poor horizontal and vertical linkages, no market information • Backyard slaughtering and poor meat processing skills • Gap in knowledge and skills of producers and extension agents in

improved husbandry, disease prevention and market-orientation

Partners: MoA, OPADC, Woreda PDO, Woreda administration,

ICARDA, ILRI, OARI, Farm Africa, GAYO Pastoral Initiative,

World vision, Care, SOS Sahel, AFD, NVI, FAO, PCDP

Altitude 1200-1764

Habitat Dry

Distance from Addis 570km

Production system Pastoral

Human population 16,112

% of female headed household 15

Major products Meat, Milk

Yabello goat value chain

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