The document outlines the dairy value chain development efforts in Ethiopia, highlighting the FAO's initiatives to increase smallholder dairy production through support and marketing improvements. Key challenges include low milk supply, ineffective services, and inadequate coordination among actors in the chain. Recommendations emphasize the importance of cooperative actions, improved market linkages, and the establishment of a national dairy board to facilitate sector growth.

1. Dairy Value Chain Development In Ethiopia: The Experience of FAO, 2010National dairy forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-24 November 2010 Emmanuelle GuerneBleichLivestock Officer FAO/SFE, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaEmmanuelle.guernebleich@fao.orgphoto M.Bleich

2. SFE and biosecurity/HPAISFE Sub-Regional Office

3. SFE-multidisciplinary team/Equipemultidiciplinaire - Farm Management and Agribusiness/ commercialisation - Land Tenure and Rural Development/ developpement rural - Livestock Sector Development/ production animale - Crop Sector Development/ production vegetale - Policy Assistance/ politiquesagricoles - Investment/ centre d’investissement-liens bailleurs - Fisheries/ peches - Forestry/ foresterie - Programme development/food security/ securitealimentaire - Administration/ administrationMandate to look at regional aspects in a multidisciplinary perspective

4. BackgroundFAO/SFE intervention areas

5. General intervention areas: food security and the agricultural sector

6. Active project: Crop diversification and marketing development project

7. Promoting economic growth in rural areas of the Arsi zone

8. Livestock development / intervention areas / dairy production with the major objective of raising subsistent smallholder production to commercial level

9. Major activities

10. Dairy Value chain actors support from production to consumption

11. Increase milk production through distribution of crossbred heifers, AI support and forage development

12. Improving marketing of milk and milk products / improving milk quality, marketing system, linking cooperatives with consumers, and providing support to milk marketing cooperativesFAO is also engaged in short term fact finding and need assessment studies in the dairy value chain

13. Two instances

14. Improving smallholder marketed supply and market access for dairy products in the Arsi zone and its surrounding areas. Focus:

15. Smallholder milk producers,

16. Dairy marketing coops and

17. Consumer purchase and consumption patterns