Presentation by E. GuerneBleich and Ameha Sebsibe at the 5th All Africa conference on animal production, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25-28 October 2010.

1. Support to Capacity building to promote
formal marketing and trade of livestock and
livestock products from the Horn of Africa
E. GuerneBleich and Ameha Sebsibe, SFE-FAO, Livestock Officers
ESAP-ALL AFRICA CONFERENCE ON ANIMAL AGRICULTURE-Commercialization of
Livestock Agriculture; Challenges and opportunities, ADDIS ABABA, OCTOBER 25th
to
28th
, 2010
Bosasso, export port, Somalia,
photo M.Bleich

2. FAO en Ethiopie
SFE/FAOR/DRRU
Addis Ababa, 27 February
2008

3. SFE and biosecurity/HPAI
SFE Sub-Regional
Office

4. SFE-multidisciplinary team/Equipe
multidiciplinaire
- Farm Management and Agribusiness/ commercialisation
- Land Tenure and Rural Development/ developpement rural
- Livestock Sector Development/ production animale
- Crop Sector Development/ production vegetale
- Policy Assistance/ politiques agricoles
- Investment/ centre d’investissement-liens bailleurs
- Fisheries/ peches
- Forestry/ foresterie
- Programme development/food security/ securite alimentaire
- Administration/ administration
Mandate to look at regional aspects in a
multidisciplinary perspective

5. Support to Capacity building to
promote formal marketing and trade of
livestock and livestock products from
the Horn of Africa
TCP/RAF/3301 (D)
photo M.Bleich

6. Why this project for the Horn?
Opportunities/realities :
• The livestock resources in the Horn
• The MENA Market for live animals and meat
• Strategic location
• Tradition to local breed consumption but;
Challenges:
• Challenges are growing and markets are taken away or reduced
• Among others, gaps in the skills of producers and traders in the
implementation of regionally/internationally acceptable standards in
the production, traceability, handling, preservation of meat for
exports, variations in the quality of animals and legal import and
export procedures

7. Situation of the exporting countries
1. Livestock population / Horn of Africa exporting livestock; per Country
Djibouti Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Somalia Sudan Total
Human Population (M) 0.85 80.2 35.8 30 10.7 39
196, 35
% Pastoralists 25 12 14.5 - 60 13.8 * 47 (24%)
Camels 70,000 2, 490, 000 947,200 - 7,000,000 4,521,000 13,345,781
Cattle 297,000 50,884,005 12,490,130 7,398,000 5,350,000 41,563,000
117,982,135
Sheep 466,000 25,979,919 9,903,300 1,748,000 13,100,000 51,555,000
102,752,219
Goats 512,000 21,960,706 13,872,300 8,523,000 12,700,000 43,270,000 100,326,006

8. Complex Export Trade Routes from the
Horn of Africa
Livestock export from the Horn of Africa to the Middle East and
Egypt shows highly complex trade-routes and
includes different livestock products chilled red meat, live animal
cattle, goats, sheep and camels,
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Nairobi
Mombasa
Prepared by PACE DMU
.
Red meat export by air
Live animal export by sea
Khartoum
Rwanda
Burundi
jordan
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Syria
Iraq
Israel
Lebanon
Addis Ababa
Hargeisa
Saudi Arabia
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Barbara
Port Sudan
Yemen
Bosaso
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Kuwait
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Qatar
Bahrain
Mogadisho
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Oman
U.A.E.
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Official Camel trade
Cross border (unofficial)
Domestic supply route
Frozen pork by sea
LEGEND
0 500
kilometres
1,000
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Somalia
Kenya
Sudan
Egypt
Central Africa
Republic
Libya
Congo D. Republic
Uganda
Tanzania
Chad

9. Meat is transported by air from Khartoum, Addis
Ababa and Hargeissa, which possess modern and
well structured export abattoirs, to Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain and the United Arab
Emirates,
Live animal are transported by boat mainly from
Djibouti, Port Sudan, Barbara, Bosaso and
Mogadishu to Saudi Arabia and Yemen across the
Red sea.

10. Port Sudan
Bosasso/Somalia
Berbera/Somalia
Source: (Abdirahman Nur Qeiliye, 2008)
Source: (Abdirahman Nur Qeiliye, 2008)
Source: Omer, H. E. D., 2009
Direction of Livestock and Veterinary Services (DLVS), 2010
Djibouti EXPORT NUMBERS

11. Import of live animals by Middle
Eastern Countries
Importing countries Total numbers Remark
Saudi Arabia 6 184 723 Of the total import
Sheep accounted 63%
Goat 32% and the rest cattle & camel
UAE 637 984
Kuwait 1 239 103
Yemen 1 688 747
Bahrain 112 695
Egypt 72 113
Oman 787 993
Qatar 596 672
Total 11,320030
*Live animals include camels, cattle, sheep and goats (2007 FAO/STAT)

12. Import of meat *by Middle Eastern
Countries FAOSTAT-2007
Volume (ton) Value (000USD)
Egypt 218,600 418,039
UAE 121,059 218,484
KSA 101,690 242,980
*the meat comprises beef, mutton, goat meat and edible offal

13. Meat carcasses and live animals;
still space
• the highest volume of meat import
– Egypt (45%) and mainly of beef
– Emirates and Saudi Arabia which was mainly of small
ruminant carcass
• the exporting countries from the Horn are covering only
34% of live animal and 2.5% of the meat trade which is
far below what should have been considered due to the
proximity of the market and adaptation to the taste of the
animals

14. Major competitors of Horn exporters in
the Middle Eastern market
Export type Competitor Remark
Live Sheep Australia Exported 3.8 million
sheep to middle
East in 2007-8
Beef Brazil, India, Argentina,
Sheep meat Australia and New Zealand
Shoats India, Iran

15. A moving market
- the need to be well informed,
- to make sure that all players
can access to the information
- to remain competitive in price
and quality
- to build a regional solidarity
facing new exporters
- To respect standards

16. Hence, the IGAD secretariat as well as the
Chambers of Commerce of Djibouti, Ethiopia,
Somalia have made request FAO assistance
Beneficiary countries
Seven IGAD member states ( Djibouti, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Sudan)

17. Major objective
To provide support in technical capacity building
for the livestock commodity chain actors thereby
improve the export performance of the livestock
sub-sector
• Target groups
Chambers of Commerce
Pastoralist and traders associations
Public service providers (Departments of Livestock
Development/ trade )

18. 3 Outputs & activities
Output 1;
Technical training packages on livestock/livestock
product quality and certification procedures are
developed & made available.
Different technical manuals (i) for service
providers, for (ii) producers and traders
-local languages, info on requisites and various type of
certificates, differences amongst i.c.
-the evolving situation of the importing countries
-new players and threats

19. Output 2;
Entrepreneurship and agribusiness
strengthening training materials developed
- in local languages
- including management skills
- how to be competitive, business tool kits
- training with Chambers of Commerce

20. Output 3;
Support the establishment of livestock
market information Regional Network
- Regional network forum will be established key
stakeholders using IGAD web tools;
- Linked to the IGAD-LPI initiatives;
- Using policy hubs and information nods from the
various countries;
- Ethiopia; a working group is created / PH / on
livestock marketing and trade (ToRs)

22. Duration of the project:
15 months, until September 2011
Project implementation & management
IGAD Secretariat
Regional consultant /TCDC
National Project Coordinators
National consultants
FAO-SFE support

23. Progress so far
• Hiring of the regional consultant/TCDC
• Information shared with Government
• National Project Coordinators all appointed
• Translation of the main document/leaflets produced
• Inception workshop/ representatives from 6 countries
• National Workshop in each country
• National consultants recruited in ETH, SOM, SUD,
DJI (value chain training gaps need assessment)

24. Thank you
Livestock Officers SFE ESAP, October 25th
to 28th
2010
Thank you
Thank
you
Bahir Dar, Amhara Region