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 OfficersESAP-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

FAO en EthiopieSFE/FAOR/DRRU

Addis Ababa, 27 February 2008

SFE and biosecurity/HPAISFE Sub-Regional Office

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

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

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

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

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,

Nairobi

Mombasa

Prepared by PACE DMU

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Red meat export by airLive animal export by sea

Khartoum

Rwanda

Burundi

jordan

Syria

IraqIsrael

Lebanon

Addis Ababa

Hargeisa

Saudi Arabia

Barbara

Port Sudan

Yemen

Bosaso

Kuwait

Qatar

Bahrain

Mogadisho

Oman

U.A.E.

Official Camel tradeCross border (unofficial)Domestic supply routeFrozen pork by sea

LEGEND

0 500

kilometres

1,000

Ethiopia

Eritrea

Somalia

Kenya

Sudan

Egypt

Central AfricaRepublic

Libya

Congo D. RepublicUganda

Tanzania

Chad

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.

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

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)

 

Source: FAOSTAT

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

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

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

 

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

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)

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 groupsChambers of Commerce

Pastoralist and traders associations

Public service providers (Departments of Livestock Development/ trade )

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

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

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)

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

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)

Thank you

Livestock Officers SFE ESAP, October 25th to 28th 2010

Thank you

Thank you

Bahir Dar, Amhara Region