This document summarizes the goals and focus of a project to improve smallholder pig production in Uganda. The project aims to increase productivity, reduce risks, and improve market access for smallholder pig producers, especially women. It notes that pig farming provides an important source of livelihoods and risk mitigation for many households. However, the majority of pigs are currently produced and sold through an inefficient informal system with limited access to services and technology. The project will conduct an in-depth analysis of the pig value chain, test best interventions, and build partner capacity to strengthen smallholder participation in pig markets.

1. To improve livelihoods, incomes and assets of smallholder pig producers, particularly women, in a sustainable manner, through
increased productivity, reduced risk, and improved market access in pig value chains.
Focus
 Pig population and per capita pork consumption has increased >10 times in the last three decades, reaching the highest pork
consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa (3.4 kg person-1 year-1).
 1.1 million households (18% of the total) in Uganda raise pigs, mostly managed by women and children, as means to diversify risk and
increase livelihood security.
 90% of pigs are produced and commercialized by a large informal subsector, with poorly organized markets and limited access to
services, as well as to technology a market information.
 The informal markets deliver pigs/pork where demanded; however, the process is considerably inefficient and poorly handed,
compromising product quality and safety for consumers, as well as benefits for many actors in the value chain.
Projects contributing to the livestock and fish
value chain work
Milestones
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Uganda smallholder pig value chain development
 In depth value chain assessment
to identify constraints and
opportunities for the
improvement of smallholder pig
VCs
 Design, testing of best-bet
interventions and sharing of
results
 Enhancement of partners capacity
for the application of VC and
participatory approaches in R4D
efforts targeting the smallholder
pig sector in Uganda
 Catalyzing the emerging smallholder pig value
chains in Uganda to increase rural incomes
and assets (ILRI/IFAD-EU)
 Safe Food – Fair Food (SF-FF) (ILRI/GIZ)
 Livestock Data Innovation in Africa
(WB/FAO/ILRI/ Bill & Melinda Gates Fund )
 Assessing the impact of African Swine Fever
in smallholder pig systems and the feasibility
of potential interventions (SLU/ILRI/SIDA)
 Epidemiology of African Swine Fever: A pre-
requisite to control (ILRI-BeCA/CISRO/AusAID)
stakeholders
Consultation
Meeting (June
2011)
recruitment of staff and
installation of Uganda
Office (completed in
October 2012).
project
Agreement with
IFAD signed
(August 2012)
national and
local partners
identified and
committed
outcome mapping (OM)
and site selection
workshop (October
2012) (sites chosen in a
participatory manner)
toolkit for In-depth
VCA (designed, tested,
applied and shared,
November 2012 –
March 2013)
report on targeting pig
value chain systems using
GIS techniques (at
district/sub-county level,
October 2012)
links with other
ILRI projects
established (e.g.
FF-SF; LDIP)
training of
partners in VC
Assessment
and OM
techniques
“The conditions within which the
smallholder pig value chains
operate in Uganda: An overview of
past trends, current status, and
likely future directions”
(Situational analysis study,
completed in December 2012)
VCA data analyzed and
used for preliminary
identification of best-
bet interventions (April
2013)
Main activities