Backyard pig production

Few animals

Free-range, tethered

Peri-urban small-scale intensive

Uncoordinated trade & transport

Unsupervised slaughter in local markets, road-side butchers

Pork joints

In Uganda (2008 Livestock Census)

3.2 million pigs

1.1 households keep pigs

Vet / Animal Health worker

Agrovet / feed shop owners

Extensionists

Feed manufacturers and suppliers

Transporters

Slaughterers- includes the owners and the employees

Pork Butchers

Pork processors- large and medium

Supermarkets / pork hotels / pork joints

Lucrative

Intensification can be incremental, doesn’t require quantum leaps in investment, know-how

Often women’s activity

Segmented market: rewarding quality, supplying the poor

Opportunities for significant efficiency gains

Largely ignored by policymakers

Competitive vis-à-vis commercial sector

Information asymmetries: market information, standards

Slaughter technologies and infrastructure (by-product losses)

Minimal attention to disease control and public health concerns

The need to understand the role of the informal systems in promoting the livelihoods of the poor

Improve efficiency to lower production costs and increase profitability

Institutional innovations- service hubs for farmer groups, contract farming schemes etc

Increase supply, reduce wastage and promote value addition

Improve pork quality