Publication: Sindh’s Livestock: Getting to Know an Important but Neglected Sector
Date
2022-05
ISSN
Published
2022-05
Author(s)
Bellinguez, Alban
Menon, Javed
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to
conduct a comprehensive landscaping review of the livestock
sub-sector in Sindh, as well as an analysis of past and
ongoing interventions and lessons learned, to identify
possible opportunities for supporting private sector-driven
growth of the livestock sub-sector to ultimately achieve the
3 objectives of inclusive, competitive, and green
development of livestock value chains. The main sources of
information were the available bibliography as well as
interviews with stakeholders. alone generates 36 percent of
this amount. This calls for adequate measures to reduce
livestock emissions through better feeding and manure
management. The main environmental threat posed by livestock
comes from the cattle colonies located in the suburbs of
major cities, which generate massive pollution of surface
and groundwater, pose a very high risk of disease outbreak
and represent a major public health problem. The main
domains that would require further investigation in order to
draw a more comprehensive and detailed picture of the
livestock sub-sector in Sindh will be: (i) access to finance
and insurance, (ii) a meat and poultry value chain analysis,
(iii) gender aspects in livestock value chains, and (iv)
anassessment of emissions and mitigations opportunities.
Citation
“Bellinguez, Alban; Menon, Javed. 2022. Sindh’s Livestock: Getting to Know an Important but Neglected Sector. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38354 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”