• Address feed shortages

• Improve animal health (input supply and production)

• Improve market access and marketing strategies

• Needs-based capacity building for producers and extension agents (feeding, sheep fattening, disease awareness, food safety)

• Enforce regulations to discourage backyard slaughtering

Research and development ‘best bets’

Challenges in the value chain

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Small ruminant value chain development in Horro, Ethiopia Our vision: “By 2020, market-oriented sustainable sheep production and sufficient meat consumption

in the diets of the value chain actors”

• Incidence of infectious diseases and parasites • Shortage of effective drug and vaccine supply) and poor delivery of veterinary

services to producers (poorly equipped health posts and transport problems) • Seasonal shortage of feed supply and lack of supply of supplementary feed • Poor linkage of producers to the markets, no market information, poor horizontal

and vertical linkages between producers, traders and abattoirs/consumes • Unsupervised backyard slaughtering • Gaps in knowledge and skills of producers and extension agents in improved

husbandry, disease prevention and market-orientation including attaining export quality

Altitude 1600-2800

Habitat Wet, Humid

Distance from Addis 315km

Production system Mixed crop-livestock

Human population 75,311

% of female headed household 7

Major products Meat

Partners: LDHA, BARC, ICARDA, ILRI, AGP-LMD, EMDTI