Exploiting market opportunities for value-added dairy and meat products in the Eastern and Central Africa region
This project is a resumption (following a two-year freeze) and expansion of an earlier one – Exploiting markets for dairy and meat products’ quality and safety – funded by the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and implemented in 2006-07 in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
This new extended project goes beyond the initial one that mainly involved consumer demand analysis and takes a value chain approach starting from smallholder dairy and meat production and marketing, value addition and processing and demand in the three countries, and extends geographical coverage to Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda. Within each country the project collaborates with various stakeholder organizations, both public and private, to meet the objectives of the project.
GOAL
The project's goal is enhanced sustainable productivity, value added and competitiveness of the sub-regional livestock system.
PURPOSE
Enhanced utilization of value addition innovations in the dairy and meat sub-sectors in eastern and central Africa.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
The project has four specific objectives:
- Facilitate the generation and uptake of demand driven dairy and meat value chain technologies and innovations
- Promote enabling policies for enhancing value addition in the dairy & meat sub-sectors
- Facilitate policy options for enhancing the performance of the agricultural sector in the ECA sub-region
- Strengthen capacity of smallholders and SMEs to exploit dairy and meat markets in the ECA sub-region
EXPECTED OUTCOME
The expected outcome of the project is improved productivity and access to markets for value added dairy and meat products which will result in improved incomes and livelihoods of the target farmers and other value chain role players.
PARTNER INSTITUTIONS
- Agency for Inter-regional Development, Uganda
- Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research
- Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
- National University of Rwanda
- Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
- State Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Sudan
FUNDER
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
For more information, please contact Amos Omore
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