LPU Working paper No. 4
VALENTIN H. VON MASSOW
AUGUST 1984
INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTRE FOR AFRICA (ILCA)
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
LPU
In 1982 the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA) established a Livestock Policy Unit (LPU).
The objectives of the LPU are:
1. To heighten the awareness in African governments and in other organisations of the importance of livestock policy issues.2. To collate in an easily assimilable form what is already known about policy issues and to present it to policy makers.
3. To carry out research of its own (including that commissioned from consultants) on priority livestock policy issues and to present the results to policy makers.
4. To encourage others to carry out similar research and to assist in presenting their results to policy makers.
LPU Working Papers
Staff members and consultants of the LPU write working papers at several stages during their research on a topic. Publication of the results of research ma not occur until several years after the research started. The LPU, therefore, makes its working documents available to anyone requesting them in order to provide access to data and ideas on African livestock policy issues as early as possible to those with a need for them.
This is an LPU working paper. It has not been prepared in accordance with procedures appropriate to formal printed texts, and ILCA accepts no responsibility for errors. Both data and ideas are subject to revision. The views and interpretations in this document are those of the author and should not be attributed to ILCA. ILCA however retains copyright and reserves all other rights.
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Part One: The Nature and Extent of the Problem*
The increase in dairy imports into sub-Saharan Africa
Some potential influences
Some possible effects of increased dairy imports
Part Two: The Role of National Policies
Objectives of government interference1/
The major instruments and their effects
Some examples of policies being pursued