Livestock: A crucial livelihood and nutrition
asset for Southeast Asia
Purvi Mehta
High Level Consultation “Integrating Nutrition into ASEAN
Integrated Food Security Framework and its Strategic Plan of Action
for Food Security”, Bangkok, 29-30 January 2013

Global Livestock Scenario
 17 billion domestic animals
 Asset value $1.4 trillion
 Employs 1.3 billion people
 Uses one third of the earth’s
ice free surface

Four out of the five highest value
global commodities are livestock
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Source: FAOSTAT, 2010 data

Livestock’s Many Virtues
Poverty Alleviation
Health
Nutrition
• Provide 58 • Livelihood • Zoonosis
million to 1.3 • Malnutrition
tonnes of Billion • Obesity
protein • Soil health:
annually
• Important
• 14% N, 9% P
asset for and 40% K
• 17% of the
global
women inputs to
kilocalories • Risk global crop
mitigation production
Micronutrients
Provided by ASF
Vitamin A
Iron
Zinc
Calcium
Riboflavin
Vitamin B12

Livestock in S.E Asian Countries
 167.2 million livestock, not including
2.28 trillion of chicken and ducks
 Pig form majority of the population
 Employment to over 100 million
people

Livestock contribution to AgGDP
Livestock
GDP
5.6% 3.8% 2.4% 2.4%
4.0% 4.3% 2.9% 2.8% 2.8%
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(Figures in bars are annual growth rates)
FAO, 2012

% growth in demand for livestock products
2000 - 2030
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FAO, 2012

Animal source foods and global diets
% calories from ASF/Day
25
20
15
10
5
0 High Income
SEA China SA SSA
Countries
FAO 2012

FAO: 2009 9

Per capita consumption of livestock products by region
Meat consumption grew 150% in South East Asia
FAO: SOFA2009 10

LS Sector in ASEAN
Unique Features for Policy Considerations
 Coexistence of a range of production systems
 50-70% production from smallholders
 Mixed farming system
 Serge in export and domestic demand
 Vulnerability to diseases
 Feed Issues
 Nutrition, health and economic contributions

Key Policy Needs
 Livestock on agriculture policy agenda
 Need for cross sectorial collaboration:
Health, Agriculture, Environment, Trade, Education
 Regional efforts
 Value chain approach
 Feed: attribute to 70-80% cost of production. Many S. E.
Asian countries depending on imported feed.
 Resource Allocation

ILRI in the Region
India
Mali
 The Only CG center
dedicated to LS
research
China
 Several CRPs are Laos
implemented in SE
Vietnam
and SA.
Nigeria
 A unique south-
Sri Lanka
Mozambique
South (Asia-Africa)
Kenya
collaboration
Thailand
Ethiopia

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