Abstract #555
Section: Contemporary and Emerging Issues
Session: Contemporary and Emerging Issues and International Animal Agriculture Symposium: Ahead to 2050—Global livestock production challenges: Current status, future needs, production obstacles
Format: Oral
Day/Time: Tuesday 4:00 PM–4:30 PM
Location: Wekiwa 1/2
Session: Contemporary and Emerging Issues and International Animal Agriculture Symposium: Ahead to 2050—Global livestock production challenges: Current status, future needs, production obstacles
Format: Oral
Day/Time: Tuesday 4:00 PM–4:30 PM
Location: Wekiwa 1/2
# 555
Global livestock production challenges: Current status, future needs, production obstacles in Africa—The Uganda example.
L. Okedi*1, Y. Baguma2, J. M. Kabirizi1, J. Kungu1, 1National Livestock Resources Research Institute, Tororo, Uganda, 2National Agricultural Research Organization Secretariat, Entebbe, Uganda.
Key Words: Africa
Speaker Bio
Global livestock production challenges: Current status, future needs, production obstacles in Africa—The Uganda example.
L. Okedi*1, Y. Baguma2, J. M. Kabirizi1, J. Kungu1, 1National Livestock Resources Research Institute, Tororo, Uganda, 2National Agricultural Research Organization Secretariat, Entebbe, Uganda.
The livestock sector in Uganda contributes 5.2% to the national gross domestic product and 18% to the overall agricultural GDP. National livestock numbers consist of 12.8 million cattle, 12.5 million goats, 4 million sheep, 3.6 million pigs and 42 million chickens. A total of 5 million households in Uganda own livestock (UBOS, 2008). Farming households that include livestock in their enterprise mix tend to have higher incomes than those involved only in crop farming. This is a result of livestock ownership and also improved crop productivity in that livestock manure improves nutrient availability to plants and increases soil organic matter. Economic benefits of including livestock production within farming enterprises are the greater accumulation of assets and the ability to secure credit. Uganda leads Africa in pork consumption, but cattle, goats, poultry and fish still provide significant sources of dietary animal protein. The expansion of meat and milk production in Africa has been disappointing despite efforts to stimulate increased production. Constraints cut across socioeconomic, technological, institutional and financial sectors. As well, little attention has been given to the development of the livestock value chain due to uncertainty in feed availability, reproductive inefficiency, the lack of livestock genetic improvement, public and animal health issues, and the prevailing policy environment.
Key Words: Africa
Speaker Bio
Director, National Livestock Resources Research Institute – NaLIRRI (formerly Uganda Trypanosomiasis Research Organization) since 2011. NaLIRRI is one of 15 semi-autonomous public agricultural research institutes (which manage and carry out agricultural research of a strategic nature and of national importance) under the apex body - National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO).
Dr. Okedi at NaLIRRI provides technical and administrative guidance on research mandates on Livestock Health, Animal Nutrition, Livestock Breeding and Apiculture; and also Zoonoses/Public Health and Climate Change adaptations. Currently running institute programs that address Dairy (under the Eastern African Agricultural Productivity Project) on include components encompassing – Dairy health - East Coast fever challenges with tick resistance to acaricides, tsetse transmitted Trypsnosomiasis, milk safety issues involving hemorrhagic E. coli epidemiology in Uganda; Dairy/beef cattle Nutrition: alternative and traditional feed resources for small holder dairy farmers, issues of Afflatoxicosis,; Animal breeding on targeted community breeding which formed the presentation at the 2014 ESADA conference in Nairobi; 2014 ALiCE conference in Kampala.
She has been involved in designing approaches to study epidemiological factors associated with bovine Trypanosomiasis in Uganda. She is a founder and Board member of the Eastern Africa Network for Trypanosomiasis (EANETT) and has supervised several graduate students in Molecular Epidemiology of Trypanosomiases. I serve on the Gulu University Council; member.
Dr. Okedi at NaLIRRI provides technical and administrative guidance on research mandates on Livestock Health, Animal Nutrition, Livestock Breeding and Apiculture; and also Zoonoses/Public Health and Climate Change adaptations. Currently running institute programs that address Dairy (under the Eastern African Agricultural Productivity Project) on include components encompassing – Dairy health - East Coast fever challenges with tick resistance to acaricides, tsetse transmitted Trypsnosomiasis, milk safety issues involving hemorrhagic E. coli epidemiology in Uganda; Dairy/beef cattle Nutrition: alternative and traditional feed resources for small holder dairy farmers, issues of Afflatoxicosis,; Animal breeding on targeted community breeding which formed the presentation at the 2014 ESADA conference in Nairobi; 2014 ALiCE conference in Kampala.
She has been involved in designing approaches to study epidemiological factors associated with bovine Trypanosomiasis in Uganda. She is a founder and Board member of the Eastern Africa Network for Trypanosomiasis (EANETT) and has supervised several graduate students in Molecular Epidemiology of Trypanosomiases. I serve on the Gulu University Council; member.
