MILK & DAIRY PRODUCTSLIVESTOCK

The Livestock Products Team has the mandate to:

To contribute to poverty alleviation; To develop mechanisms for quality control and management of food safety; and To promote the introduction of efficient animal product processing and marketing through adapting and disseminating technologies and upgrading technical and management skills.

To this end, the Team assists member countries in exploiting the opportunities for livestock development and poverty alleviation through the promotion of safe and efficient livestock product processing and marketing. Our main emphasis is on helping the smallholder sector through upgrading the small-scale processing techniques and assisting with the organisation of marketing systems. This is achieved through a combination of headquarters-based and field activities and collaboration with the selected external institutions and organisations.