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Sintayehu eaLivestock Market Information Systems Improving Information Flow for Decision Making and Value Chain Linkagessp ppt
1. Livestock Market Information Systems:
Improving Information Flow for Decision Making and
Value Chain Linkages
Sintayehu Alemayehu
DM&E Manager
Mercy Corps
21th EASP Annual Conference 28, August 2013
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2. Context
• Historically, a system for collecting, analysis, storage and
dissemination of market information has been lacking
• Livestock Information Network and Knowledge System
(LINKS) project designed simple, workable, evidence-
based system for data collection and analysis which
provided a user friendly information delivery system in
East Africa
• LINKS system incorporated the Livestock Early Warning
System (LEWS) technology with market information
systems for improved marketing of livestock and risk
management.
• LINKS market information system has been adopted as a
unified national market information system by federal
Ministry of Agriculture in Ethiopia
3. Objective of LMIS
• Provide near real-time livestock price
and volume information to
stakeholders to facilitate marketing
decisions and early warning
–Pastoralists/livestock producers
–Traders
–Government
–Non-government organizations
6. Role of LMIS in Value Chains
• Capabilities for capturing price and volume
information for livestock products (meat, milk,
hides, skins, etc)
• Can be used as a price information system for
feeds and fodders
• Strong price differentials exist between fat and
thin grade animals – provides opportunities
for fattening livestock or strategic
supplemental feeding to improve grade
8. Role of LMIS in Value Chains
• Build linkages across MIS for commodity,
livestock products, and livestock animal sales
– Evaluate influences of commodity price changes
on livestock value chain
– Provide opportunities for use of surplus
commodities as supplemental feed
– Common platforms of information dissemination
and transfer
9. Advantage of LMIS to Livestock market
system(Value chain)
• It can strengthen vertical linkages between livestock traders
and pastoral producers
• Make profitable for pastoralists to sell their livestock based
on informed decision
• Increase value chain efficiency and competitiveness to the
benefit of pastoralists
• Transfer of information and learning between actors —this is
key to competitiveness
• Value chain actors cooperate and have complementary
competences
• Forster competition in the market and competition for the
market
10. Challenges of LMIS
• The challenge of implementing a viable LMIS
are considerable and include the following:
– Institutional
– Technical
– Policy Issues
11. Challenges – Institutional Issues
• Weak linkages and poor working relationship
among Stakeholders.
• Lack of effective collaboration and coordination
among various organizations and institutions
involved in LMIS.
• Problems associated with overlaps between
ministries in responsibilities and execution of
LMIS.
12. Challenges – Technical Issues
• Creation of infrastructure for increased ground data
collection.
• Need for human capacity building to ensure adequate
provision of technical inputs and knowledge.
• The need to reduce the amount of field and desk
work required to produce livestock market
information (through automation of data collection,
processing and dissemination using a
software/hardware architecture that makes use of
the state-of-the-art telecommunication technologies).
13. Challenges – Policy Issues
• Lack of a strategic direction and clear policy guidelines for the
implementation of a coherent LMIS.
• Mainstreaming LMIS- program is currently funded almost
entirely by donors. There is a need for it to be weaned from the
external funding and covered from local funding and
incorporated into the local and national budgetary allocations
to create a sustainable system.
14. Lessons Learned
• Keep things simple and flexible
• Operate in partnership and build trust
• Commitment of policy makers at the federal, regional
and district levels is key. Case of East Hararegh
• Training should be at all levels (producers, traders,
extension workers, policy makers) to demonstrate how
information can be used for risk management decisions
15. Lessons Learned
• Weak Institutional linkages and poor working
relationships among stakeholders is a potential
impediments to successful implementation
• Strengthening traders, marketing cooperatives and civil
societies can bring about positive development in
implementation of LMIS
16. Achievements
• Speedy server deployed at Ministry’s headquarter & ILRI
• LMIS web portal/gateway for Ethiopia is currently hosted by MOA
• A steady flow of timely, regular and reliable livestock market
information
• Ministry personnel are successfully processing price and sales volume
data from the database and disseminating market information
• LMIS used as benchmark to begin AMIS for crops in the country
• Academic, private traders and government using the data
• Quality data available for research and policy analysis
Large price differentials between fat and thin animals provide opportunities for fattening operations. The LMIS data provide a means for weighing the costs of the fattening against the difference in price in order for the producer to assess the risk and evaluate profit potential