1) Global demand for meat, milk, and eggs is rising rapidly in developing countries, where smallholders currently produce much of the supply.
2) Transforming smallholder livestock production into a more productive and resilient system can help achieve several UN Sustainable Development Goals and benefit women and youth.
3) Livestock research plays a key role in this transformation by developing solutions to improve productivity, health, feeding, and management practices for smallholder farmers.
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Achieving Agenda 2030: Livestock research and the transformation of small-scale production
1. Achieving Agenda 2030:
Livestock research and the
transformation of small-scale production
Jimmy Smith, Director General, ILRI
ACIAR, Canberra, Australia, April 2017
2. Key messages
• Global demand for meat, milk and eggs
continues to rise rapidly
• Almost all the increased demand
is in developing countries
• Smallholders are currently producing much
of the animal-source foods in these regions
• Many SDGs can be addressed by transforming
smallholder production into a vibrant, productive and
resilient food system . . . with particular opportunities
for women and youth
• Livestock research plays a key role in such transformation
5. On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the universal,
integrated and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of
17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 associated targets
6. Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock:
Livestock and the SDGs
Image courtesy of Henning Steinfeld, FAO
7. Livestock and the SDGs
Livestock development relates to almost all SDGs
• It can make both positive and negative contributions
• It is highly diverse, depending on
location, system, commodity
• It is complex, involves hard trade-offs
• It is highly dynamic and in big transition
• It is conspicuously absent from SDGs/indicators
Insufficient attention to this fastest growing,
often controversial agricultural sector
could threaten attaining the SDGs
8. Opportunities and challenges
in the livestock sector
Provides food and nutritional security
BUT overconsumption can cause obesity
Powers economic development
BUT equitable development can be a challenge
Improves human health
BUT animal-human/emerging diseases
and unsafe foods need to be addressed
Enhances the environment
BUT pollution, land/water degradation,
GHG emissions and biodiversity losses
must be greatly reduced
9. Livestock and livelihoods
• Almost a billion people
rely on livestock for livelihoods
• Over 100 million landless people
keep livestock.
• For the vulnerable, up to 40% of benefits
from livestock keeping come from non-
market, intangible benefits, mostly
insurance and financing.
• In the poorest countries, livestock manure
comprises over 70% of soil fertility
amendments.
• Many people are employed in local
informal livestock product markets.
• 90% of animal products are produced and
consumed in the same country or region
• Over 70% of livestock products
are sold ‘informally’
10. Various sources:
BMGF, FAO and ILRI
Smallholders still dominate
livestock production in many countries
Region
(definition of
‘smallholder’)
% production by smallholder livestock farms
Beef Chicken
meat
Sheep/goat
meat
Milk Pork Eggs
East Africa
(≤ 6 milking
animals)
60-90
Bangladesh
(< 3ha land)
65 77 78 65 77
India
(< 2ha land)
75 92 92 69 71
Vietnam
(small scale)
80
Philippines
(backyard)
50 35
11. Smallholders: Central to development
• Smallholders are not ‘subsistence’ farmers
• Smallholders are central to:
– increasing food supplies to poor consumers
– enhancing rural development and livelihoods
• Smallholders produce the bulk of livestock
—and half of crop—products in developing countries
• Smallholders continue to be competitive
• Investing in smallholders does not detract
from investing in larger commercial systems
12. Livestock and inclusive,
sustainable
economic growth
Livestock and equitable
livelihoods
Livestock and sustainable
ecosystems
Animal source foods for
nutrition and health
Also from the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock
14. Demand for livestock commodities
in developing economies will be met
Scenario #1
Meeting livestock demand by
importing livestock products
Scenario #2
Meeting livestock demand by
importing livestock industrial production know-how
Scenario #3
Meeting livestock demand by
transforming smallholder livestock systems
15. Replacing the 90% of locally produced animal
commodities with imports is unfeasible
Economically
• Africa’s food import bill (2013):
USD44 billion
• About one-fifth is livestock
(highest after cereals):
Meat: USD5 billion
Milk: USD4 billion
• Business as usual:
The import bill doubles
16. Livestock and inclusive,
sustainable
economic growth
Transforming
livestock VCs:
Opportunities for
business, youth,
SMEs
Not all smallholders
will be part of
the solution
Robust productivity solutions:
existing and new science
Delivery
Markets
Institutions
17. Smallholder beef sector
in Botswana
This recent 3.5-year (2012–2016)
ACIAR-funded project found great
scope for enhancing smallholder
livestock competitiveness in
Botswana through better:
• Market-oriented policies
• Disease control and government-
supported private animal health services
in rural areas
• Control of FMD for increased livestock
marketing in southern Africa
• Meat quality for the lucrative EU market
19. Livestock and equitable
livelihoods
Women in livestock raising, processing,
trading – gender transformative approaches
Inclusive dairy
development:
Target: 10 million
smallholders
in East Africa
Increased
economic
value
$260 million
per annum
Insuring the never-before insured against
catastrophic drought in the Horn
20. Smallholder pig value chains
in Vietnam
This current 9-month (2016–2017) ACIAR-
funded project is assessing the scope for
smallholder pig competitiveness by
ethnic minorities in northwest Vietnam.
Findings
• BREEDS: Farmers are beginning to switch from
local to cross-bred pigs.
• FEEDS: Farmers can feed their pigs too much
maize, which increases their fat and reduces
market interest.
• SOILS: Traditional maize cultivation of the hill
slopes have degraded soils and reduced maize
yields, causing farmers to reduce areas planted
to maize to feed their household pigs.
21. Smallholder crop-livestock systems
in Zimbabwe
This current 5-year (2012–2017) ACIAR-funded project is enhancing
mixed farming practices through better technologies and practices.
• Farmers growing legumes
for feed are significantly
increasing their dairy and
beef profits.
• Farmers switching from
maize stover to thatch grass
for mulching are generating
more dry-season stover feed
supplements for ruminants.
• Farmers feeding their stock
home-grown fodder & crop
residues are reducing pressure
on communal rangelands.
22. CGIAR research program on Livestock and Fish:
more meat, milk and fish by and for the poor
Highlights:
Demonstrating potential for smallholder
pig production in Uganda
Benefits of small-scale aquaculture in
Bangladesh
• 1st Phase: 2012-2016: focus on
nine selected value chains,
supported by IPG research on
productivity drivers (genetics,
health, feed) and social sciences,
to design value chain
interventions together with
national stakeholders and
development actors
• Strong, consistent support from
ACIAR: $600-700K/year
• 2nd phase 2017- 2022: Two
separate CRPs: Fish and
Livestock
23. Needed beyond technology
• New models to enable one billion people to
take part in the transformation of the
livestock sector or to exit from it positively
• Means of ensuring that women, men and
young people all have opportunities to
engage in new livestock business solutions
• Support for vulnerable people to secure
their livestock assets
25. Nutritional divides among 7 billion people today
Hungry people
stunted children
insufficient
nutrients
overweight/obese
balanced diets
Healthcare for
obesity economic
cost: $2 trillion
11% of GNP lost
annually in Africa
and Asia from
poor nutrition
Less than one
third well fed and
nourished
26. Most (75%) emerging diseases come from
animals and cost up to USD6 billion annually
ILRI report to DFID: Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012
Emerging zoonotic disease events, 1940−2012
27. Animal-source foods for
nutrition and health
Worldwide livestock antimicrobial
consumption is expected to rise by 67%
between 2010 and 2030.
5 million consumers
in Kenya and
1.5 in Assam are
benefiting from
safer milk
New research: MERS in camels
28. Food safety
in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam
This ACIAR-funded research finds:
• Animal-source foods (ASFs) are valued highly
by poor people in these countries.
• The riskiest ASFs are also the most nutritious.
• Taboos and beliefs influence food choices
by and for pregnant women and infants.
• The urban poor have high concerns about
food safety and low trust in food systems
and official quality assurance programs.
• Choices in food consumption are increasingly
driven by media stories and food scares.
• Enhancing traditional food processing is an
overlooked opportunity for providing better
nutrition, health, income and gender equity
for poor people.
30. Livestock and sustainable
ecosystems
Potential to double
productivity and halve
methane emissions.
In India that means I million
tonnes less methane per year
from dairy
Improve livestock efficiency to
produce more product per unit of
input − land, water, labour, capital −
and causing less environmental
harm
Good grazing management for
rangelands: potential to sequester
8.6 million tonnes carbon/year
31. Fodder markets
in Indonesia
This recent 2-year (2015–2016) ACIAR-
funded project determined ways to
improve feed/fodder markets:
• Most smallholders buy feed and fodder on
occasion, mostly from livestock markets.
• Half of those buying feed are dairy producers.
• Household herd size and income, as well as
distance to livestock markets and access to
market information, influence feed purchases.
• Feed quality (amount of protein and crude
fibre) and price are highly correlated.
• Some feeds are over- or under-priced, creating
opportunities for designing more cost-
effective ways of feeding smallholder livestock.
32. • Reduce the environmental footprint of
livestock by improving productivity
• Generate reliable livestock greenhouse
gas emission indices to inform appropriate
policies in tropical countries
• Manage rangelands and improve pastures
to sequester carbon
33. Livestock research capacity building
at the BecA-ILRI Hub
• Livestock productivity:
Feeds, breeds, health
• Capacity to undertake high-end
livestock research to solve challenges
• Support from Australia for the
Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF)
is critical
34. Key messages
• Global demand for meat, milk and eggs
continues to rise rapidly
• Almost all the increased demand
is in developing countries
• Smallholders are currently producing much
of the animal-source foods in these regions
• Many SDGs can be addressed by transforming
smallholder production into a vibrant, productive and
resilient food system . . . with particular opportunities
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• Livestock research plays a key role in such transformation
37. Peter Doherty on international livestock
research and ILRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUYpr5Bv5k
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better lives through livestock
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