Livestock for Resilient Communities

Valbo Foundation + Vétérinaires Sans Frontières-Netherlands

2025

The project aims at strengthening the capacity of livestock extension systems for farmers to build and maintain livestock assets, mainly locally available cattle, goats, local chicken and pigs by increasing average livestock herd/flock sizes per household to sustainable and viable levels. Secondly, the intervention envisages enhancing access to technologies that increase livestock productivity by increasing livestock access to quality water and feed resources (use of crop by-products, pasture management, simple feed formulation and efficiency, positive breeding selection method, and Artificial Insemination). Further to this, the project will endeavour to enhance the utilisation of crop residues and by-products by using feed choppers and others. Other activities in the project include capacity building on fodder management and Sustainable Land Management practices, such as making manure for crop productivity and the use of biogas for cooking energy. Scaling up veterinary services provision by enhancing the Community-Based Animal Health Workers Model is also a key component. Under economic empowerment and cooperative development, the project will facilitate the formation, training and strengthening of farmer groups and cooperatives/ associations; increase access to financial services and financial literacy through formation/strengthening and link smallholder farmers to lucrative and sustainable markets.