Content Ethiopia, with a very large livestock population in Africa, doesn’t have a full-fledged livestock policy. Many countries in Africa have national policies and strategies towards the development of the livestock sector. These include Ethiopian neighbors Kenya and Somaliland, and Tanzania.This report describes the livestock and livestock products policy as inferred from the country’s scattered laws dealing with sanitary, processing, quarantine, and trade in animals, animal products and by products. Description The national rural development policy dedicates vary small part of it to issues related with pastoralists and livestock development. It aims at alleviating problem of underutilization of grazing land, resource degradation and low livestock productivity by developing water sources and improving pasture land protection and management through rejuvenating depleted pasture resources and utilizing such resources prudently. Using local knowledge and skills in the planning and implementation of development programs; overhauling the livestock marketing structure; increasing livestock off-take and awareness among herders to make livestock raising market-driven are among the considerations in the policy. Settlement is also taken as a basic development strategy. The policy required the federal government and regional administrations to identify constraints restraining investments in areas such as cattle fattening, live animal marketing and transport and meat processing and tanneries with a view of encouraging and facilitating private capital. Education and agricultural extension services are also part of the policy. Concerning education, preference is given in using the time of relatively considerable settlement for education and short-tem trainings. The meat, leather and leather products industry is identified as a strategic/important industry in the country’s industrial development strategy. The following are aims of the policy as inferred from the various legal documents promulgated with a view to implement the policy: Prevention and control of animal diseases to maximize the benefits to be derived from livestock resources
Content Ethiopia, with a very large livestock population in Africa, doesn’t have a full-fledged livestock policy. Many countries in Africa have national policies and strategies towards the development of the livestock sector. These include Ethiopian neighbors Kenya and Somaliland, and Tanzania.This report describes the livestock and livestock products policy as inferred from the country’s scattered laws dealing with sanitary, processing, quarantine, and trade in animals, animal products and by products. Description The national rural development policy dedicates vary small part of it to issues related with pastoralists and livestock development. It aims at alleviating problem of underutilization of grazing land, resource degradation and low livestock productivity by developing water sources and improving pasture land protection and management through rejuvenating depleted pasture resources and utilizing such resources prudently. Using local knowledge and skills in the planning and implementation of development programs; overhauling the livestock marketing structure; increasing livestock off-take and awareness among herders to make livestock raising market-driven are among the considerations in the policy. Settlement is also taken as a basic development strategy. The policy required the federal government and regional administrations to identify constraints restraining investments in areas such as cattle fattening, live animal marketing and transport and meat processing and tanneries with a view of encouraging and facilitating private capital. Education and agricultural extension services are also part of the policy. Concerning education, preference is given in using the time of relatively considerable settlement for education and short-tem trainings. The meat, leather and leather products industry is identified as a strategic/important industry in the country’s industrial development strategy. The following are aims of the policy as inferred from the various legal documents promulgated with a view to implement the policy: Prevention and control of animal diseases to maximize the benefits to be derived from livestock resources
Annex%204D%20Research%20Report%20on%20Policy%20Information%20Gap%20Analyis.docx