Livestock Conference Report-9May 2022_Final Report (click here to read the whole document)
A one-day Conference on “Livestock Development for Economic Prosperity in Zambia” was held on 20th April 2022 at Mulungushi International Conference Centre, Lusaka. The Conference drew 86 participants across various livestock commodity value chains in the sub-sector (see Appendix 1 for a List of Participants and the Institutions they represent). There were five (5) commodity value chains of interest that were focused on by the Conference, namely: Beef cattle; Small ruminants; Pigs; Poultry; and; Dairy cattle.
The specific objectives of the Conference were:
i) To provide a platform for all stakeholders in the livestock industry to speak with one voice, for the growth and development of the livestock subsector;
ii) Bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, smallholder, emergent and commercial farmers, processors and packers, input suppliers, policy makers and other actors along the value chain to exchange and share practical performance experiences and results on all aspects of livestock development in Zambia;
iii) To create synergies within the livestock sector and deliver on the aspirations of the new dawn government;
iv) To discuss and agree on the establishment of a regular and formal platform for non-state actors to engage and interact with policy makers in government, on various issues affecting the livestock sub-sector;
v) To provide a platform for presentations and discussions on developed and adopted innovations, trends, and solutions in addressing and/or coping with national and global cross-cutting challenges, such as climate change and pandemic diseases, in the development of the livestock subsector in Zambia, and;
vi) To contribute to the policy direction in livestock development in Zambia.