Stakeholders in the pastoral farming sector have called for efficient logistics capable of cutting the costs of transporting cattle.
They said it would help the industry to be more efficient and improve the welfare of livestock being transported.
This was one of the resolutions at the end of African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) workshop on technical planning and implementation of African Pastoral Markets Development (APMD) platform held in Abuja. The workshop had representatives from Nigeria, Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Cameroon.
AU-IBAR, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF), is establishing and operationalising the APMD Platform aims to enable market-driven, adaptive transformations in pastoralism and plays a critical role in fostering inclusive agricultural transformation across Africa.
The APMD Platform will strategically influence, promote and provide visibility of market-focused interventions to enhance pastoral…