Better lives through livestock
Livestock Master Plans
(LMP)
Isabelle Baltenweck
UN Food System Summit Science Days Side Event on Decision-making for Sustainable
Livestock: Capitalizing on Models, Data and Communications, 7 July 2021

What is a Livestock Master Plan?
A Livestock Master Plan (LMP) is a five-year sector investment plan
and is guided by the government’s objectives for the livestock sector,
which may include reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, and
improving food and nutrition security.
The LMP is comprised of three parts:
• A Livestock Sector Analysis (LSA) of the country’s trends (baseline-
diagnosis phase)
• A long-term (15 year) livestock sector strategies (LSS) and
• A medium-term (5 years) actionable investment plan with
commodity value chain road maps.

Chronic under investment
Lack of evidence base
In adequate analytical Capacity
Impact pathways
Evidence synthesized &
communicated
Growth in
investment &
policy support
Cases made for more &
better investment in
livestock
Efficient use of
resources
Decisions supported by
Evidence
Why LMP?
Chronic under investment
Lack of evidence base
In adequate analytical Capacity
Chronic under investment
Lack of evidence base
In adequate analytical Capacity
Why a Livestock Master Plan?
Chronic under investment
Lack of evidence base
In adequate analytical Capacity

What a LMP will tell us about the livestock sector
Livestock Master Plan (LMP) seeks to provide Government policymakers, private investors, and
development partners with reliable quantitative facts on:
• The current contributions and constraints of the livestock sector – status
• The potential of the sector to contribute to national development objectives
• Priority livestock commodities and value chains and proposed investment
options (combined technologies and policies)
• How better targeted investment in livestock can improve economic
performance the sector, and improve lives in the sector
• National capacity (capacity building) for fact-based, quantitative planning

The LMP process

The LMP development process (Odisha State)

Existing Livestock Master Plans
ETHIOPIA TANZANIA RWANDA UZBEKISTAN BIHAR STATE (INDIA)
World Bank now
developing
$200+ million
sector
investment
$624
million
investment
plan
proposed
$261
million
investment
plan
proposed
World Bank
US$180
million
sector
investment
(US$ 895M, 16%
from public)
endorsed by the
state Chief
Minister

Ongoing Livestock Master Plans (LMPs)
The Gambia Odisha State, India Kenya

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