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More pork by and for the poor: Catalyzing emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda for food security and poverty reduction
1. More pork by and for the poor: Catalyzing emerging smallholder pig value
chains in Uganda for food security and poverty reduction
Emily Ouma
More Pork by and for the Poor Project Inception and Planning Workshop, Mukono, Uganda, 27-28 May 2014
2. Outline
• Project rationale.
• Project goal and objectives.
• Project outputs.
• Project impact pathways and expected
outcomes.
• Contribution to Irish Aid and Uganda
agricultural and livestock sector
objectives.
• Target group.
• Partnerships.
3. • Smallholder pig value chains in Uganda
identified by L&F CRP as a high-potential
target for pro-poor transformation;
– evidence of market opportunities for
continued expansion of production through
growing demand of pork and pork products.
– opportunities for smallholders, either as
producers or other actors in the value chains.
– productivity gaps and identified supply
constraints that research potentially offers
solutions to overcome.
– existing momentum and key research and
development partners to enable outcomes and
impacts.
• Entry points for improving the smallholder pig
value chains identified through baseline
activities of SPVCD and SFFF projects.
Project rationale
Source: SFFF, 2013 - pork outlets in
Kampala
4. Productivity related constraints
• Poor husbandry practices and high mortality rates
from diseases such as African swine fever (ASF) due to
poor implementation of biosecurity measures.
• Ecto-parasites and helminths.
• Inbreeding and poor selection of breeding stock.
• Seasonality of feed supply and lack of capacity to
develop nutritionally balanced feed rations.
• High costs and poor quality of commercial feeds.
Project rationale
Nominal wholesale maize price trends
5. Marketing and services constraints
• Lack of appropriate organisational models for enhancing access to quality inputs, services
and pig markets.
– Pig farmers lack voice – carry out individual sales.
– Price transactions based on visual estimates of weight.
– Poor access to extension, quality animal health services and financial services.
– High transaction costs incurred by pig traders – transport and search costs.
Public health related constraints
• No structured pig meat inspection and lack of capacity by meat inspectors.
• Poor waste management – e.g. abattoirs (drainage of blood into water bodies).
• Practices that could increase the risk for foodborne and occupational diseases.
Project rationale
6. Project rationale
Poor household nutrition
• Low household dietary diversity in some regions coupled with childhood stunting
(Uganda National Panel survey, 2009-10 – 3,123 households in 322 Enumeration
Areas).
Percentage of
households with
low dietary
diversity in 2009-10
(UBOS and WFP,
2013)
7. Project rationale
Project focus
• Test and pilot best bet options (entry points) to improve on-farm productivity,
household nutrition, and efficiency and pork safety in the marketing chain ;
– enhance benefits for poor men and women farmers and their organisations, market
actors and consumers.
– Minimize negative environmental impacts.
• End result ;
– a number of validated options to form part of an integrated intervention strategy.
– an evidence base demonstrating the benefits such a strategy can achieve.
8. • Improved food and nutritional
security for poor households,
• Improved livelihoods for value
chain actors
• Better performance of
smallholder pig value chain
systems in selected areas in
Uganda.
Project goal
9. • Farm level – improved productivity and sustainable
environmental practices: develop, test and evaluate best-bet
options on improved pig husbandry and manure
management practices, swine health, breeding management
and improved diets.
• Value chain level: improved pork safety and better access to
inputs, services ad output markets: develop, test and
evaluate best-bet options on sustainable marketing
mechanisms and waste management practices.
Project objectives
10. • Consumer level - improved nutrition and health:
Develop, test and evaluate best-bet options to increase
utilisation of edible pig parts and increase consumer
awareness about benefits of consumption of animal
source foods and diverse food baskets.
• Policy level: Inform policy to recognize and
appropriately promote the role of pro-poor pig value
chains in Uganda.
Project objectives
11. Project Outputs
Output 1.1: Site
identification and
baseline surveys
Output 1.2: Strategy
for improved pig
health through better
biosecurity
Output 1.3: Pig diets
formulated using
locally available feed
resources
Output 1.4:
Improved breeding
management
practices – selection
of breeding boars
Output 1.5: Evidence
generation on
performance and
economic feasibility
of IMO technology
Output 2.1:
Strategies for
establishing
sustainable pig
business hubs for
input/service delivery
Output 2.2: Capacity
strengthening of
business groups
(including training for
butchers on
appropriate
slaughtering)
Output 1.6:
Gendered
assessment of
performance of pig
production best-bets.
Output 2.4: Evidence
generated on
environmental impact
of waste management
in the slaughtering and
processing nodes of
the VC.
Output 3.1: Strategy
to increase utilisation
of edible pig parts ad
improve nutritional
information to
farmers &consumers.
Output 3.2: A
gendered
assessment of the
role of pork and
other animal source
foods in human diets
Output 4.1: Develop
and disseminate
lessons for
sustainable pig VC
development
through evidence
based research and
MEL
Output 1.7: Capacity
building of VC actors
for production best-
bets
Objective 1: develop, test and
evaluate best-bets for
improved pig productivity and
sustainable waste management
at producer level.
Output 2.3:
Assessments of the
pig business hubs
approach and
enhanced capacities
on pork handling
Objective 2: develop, test and
evaluate best-bet options on
sustainable organisational
marketing mechanisms and
waste management for pork
safety and better access to
inputs & services
Output 3.3:
Consumer education
on dietary diversity
and benefits of
consumption of ASF
promoted
Objective 3: Strategy to
increase utilisation of edible pig
parts and increase consumer
awareness on benefits of
consumption of ASF.
Objective 4: Inform policy to
recognize and appropriately
promote the role of pro-poor
pig value chains in Uganda
12. Impact pathways and expected outcomes
Output 1.2: Strategy
for improved pig
health through better
biosecurity
Output 1.3: Pig diets
formulated using
locally available feed
resources
Output 1.4:
Improved breeding
management
practices – selection
of breeding boars
Output 1.5: Evidence
generation on
performance and
economic feasibility of
IMO technology
Output 2.1:
Strategies for
establishing
sustainable pig
business hubs for
input/service delivery
Output 2.4: Evidence
generated on
environmental impact
of waste management
in the slaughtering and
processing nodes of
the VC.
Output 3.1: Strategy to
increase utilisation of
edible pig parts and
improve nutritional
information to farmers
&consumers.
Output 3.2: A
gendered
assessment of the
role of pork and
other animal source
foods in human diets
Output 2.3:
Assessments of the
pig business hubs
approach and
enhanced capacities
on pork handling
Output 3.3:
Consumer education
on dietary diversity
Gender/capacity
development/MEL
• Innovative models
for improving
farmer’s access to
inputs/services.
• Innovations for
improving farm
management and
disposal of pig waste.
•Innovations that
enhance pig health.
•Improved
productivity.
•Improved
incomes
from the pig
enterprise.
• Better management
and disposal of pig
waste
•Lower negative
environmental
impacts
•Innovations
that improve
quality and
quantity of
pork
supplies.
•Greater
consumption
of diverse
and
nutritious
diets.
•Better
nutrition
and
health
13. • Irish Aid global priorities of poverty alleviation,
improved human nutrition, and hunger alleviation.
Also addresses some cross cutting issues of
gender and the environment.
• In line with 2 agricultural sector DSIP objectives of:
– improvement of rural livelihoods
– improved household food ad nutrition security.
Contribution to Irish Aid and national agricultural
and livestock sector objectives
14. • Smallholder pig value chain
production and marketing systems –
with gender considerations.
– Pig farmers and farmer groups
(including women groups).
– Small scale traders and trader
groups (including youth groups).
– Public officials responsible for
disease control and surveillance
– Extension staff (national and local
governments)
– NGOs
Target group
15. • Current SPVCD
project sites
– Mukono
– Kamuli
– Masaka
GIS characterisation
and stakeholder
consultations.
• Additional sites –
under Irish Aid
– Northern region
– Western region
Potential project areas
16. New partnerships
National Animal Genetics Resource Centre & Databank
Makerere University_ Gender, Innovation Studies and
Extension
Makerere University_ Dept of Food Technology and
Nutrition
Heifer International
SNV
Technoserve
BRAC
MAAIF, Diagnostics & Epidemiology Lab
Africa2000
Veterinarians without Borders
Lwannunda Community Development Initiative
VECO
District local governments-selected Northern and
Western districts