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Solution /Innovation:

Livestock Sector Investment and Policy Toolkit (LSIPT)

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Organization:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

For more information:

Technical contact:
Clarisse Ingabire
Animal Production Officer
FAO
Clarisse.Ingabire@fao.org
Additional contacts:
Badi Besbes
Head of the Animal Production and Genetics Unit
FAO
Badi.Besbes@fao.org
Categories:
Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Gender & equality, Healthy diets & Nutrition, Marketing and value chains, One Health, Other breed, Pig, Policy, Poultry, Red meat, and Sustainable production
Has been implemented in:
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Challenge

The livestock sector contributes largely to country’s Agricultrural GDP, yet the sector has received less attention from policy makers, and is facing budgetary constraints to allow the sector to reach its optimum potential. The underperforming of livestock value chains reduces the competitiveness, resilience, incomes generation and job creation. Identifying and addressing the challenges of the livestock sector will therefore contributes to Improving livestock productivity, performance, and its contribution to food security and nutrition and to the national economy.

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Solution

The LSIPT has been used extensively to develop Livestock Master Plans.
The overall role of the National Livestock Master Plan (LMP) is to guide the development of a sustainable livestock sector and attract more and better-targeted livestock sector investments from the government, development partners, and private sector investors.
The LMP process enables identifying the needed investments and policies to develop the livestock sector by carrying out baseline and ex-ante investment analysis to demonstrate the potential returns on investment (ROI) of combined livestock interventions that increase the livestock sector’s contribution to national development objectives sustainably. It also provides government livestock experts and planners training to carry out evidence-based, realistic investment planning to raise livestock sector investments.
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Impact

The LSIPT has been used to conduct analysis of production systems in various agroecological zones, based on actual technical and financial parameters, the toolkit helps to quantify the production systems' performance. The toolkit is also used to conduct economic and financial analysis of investment projects (EFA) to conduct cost-benefits analysis and estimate the economic impact of the project (estimate economic indicators such as Net Present Value and Economic Rate of Return). Finally, countries who have developed the LMP, have seen an increase in resources allocated to the livestock sector (both public and private), and improved capacity of the public sector in data collection, analysis, and monitoring of the performance of the livestock sector, and design of effective policy measures.

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Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Gender & equality, Healthy diets & Nutrition, Marketing and value chains, One Health, Other breed, Pig, Policy, Poultry, Red meat, and Sustainable production

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