Poster prepared by ICARDA, 20 May 2013

1. • 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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May 2013
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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