This project aims to improve the incomes and livelihoods of small-scale livestock producers in drought-prone areas in Southern Africa – where livestock are more ecologically suitable and offer better opportunities for poverty alleviation, compared to crop farming. Given the right market incentives, subsistence cattle and goat producers will move to a more commercial orientation, with better management and higher offtake rates. The
project will work with farmers, traders and other service providers to encourage such commercialization.

Diagnostic surveys will identify the potential for and constraints to increased livestock production in each area. Various alternative systems for livestock marketing and input delivery will be evaluated, and best-bets selected, refined and disseminated. Pilot activities will be targeted at three countries (Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe) and implemented by a consortium of partners: national research and extension services, farmers, NGOs, the private sector, and two international research institutes, ICRISAT and ILRI.

Project Location:
Country(ies), region(s), town(s)
Mozambique – Tete, Sofala and Gaza provinces
Namibia – Northern Communal Areas (Omusati, Oshana, Ohanguena, Oshikoto, Kavango and Caprivi regions)
Zimbabwe – Matabeleland (Tsholotsho, Beitbridge and Matobo districts).

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