Title: Small-scale dairying for food security and food safety

Tony Bennett

Project Co-ordinator, FAO Action Programme for the Prevention of Food Losses - Milk and Dairy Products, Post Harvest Losses and Food Safety in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Near East
(PFL/INT/860/PFL)
AGAP, FAO, Rome

Chiang Mai Thailand
September 2004

Presentation outline:

• (1) SSD and informal milk trading

• (2) results from the PFL/INT/860/PFL project

• (3) reducing milk losses and improving milk quality - information, technology transfer, training

• (4) regional initiative

Why small scale milk collection and processing?

• Provide regular income

• Improve livelihoods

• Improve nutrition

• Adding value to milk products

• Generate employment

• Affordable consumer prices

• Improve quality and safety

Our focus:

Small-scale milk collection; processing and marketing in developing countries

The opportunity

• Smallholders produce majority of milk in developing countries

• Demand increase of 25 % (2020)

• value of dairy imports increased by 43% (1998 and 2001)

The challenge

• 80 % of milk in informal market (>200 billion litres annually)

FIRST STAKEHOLDERS WORKSHOP ON MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS,

POST-HARVEST LOSSES AND FOOD SAFETY IN SUB-SAHARAN
AFRICA AND THE NEAR EAST
REGIONAL APPROACHES TO NATIONAL CHALLENGES

FAO - US$675,000

Comparison of dairy industries

Country

Production
(M lts/yr)

Dairy Product
Consumption
(FAOSTAT 2002)

Informal
Traditional
Market Share
(% Marketed milk)

Ethiopia

1,200

21.3

>80

Kenya

2,500

85.2

88

Syria

1,600

94.3

90

Tanzania

1,000

25.8

98

Uganda

900

26.9

75-90

Recommendations

• Urgently needed

• National studies -value

• Activity oriented

• Practically applicable -stepwise

• Tailored to country needs

Agreed definitions

"Informal market"

• Milk and dairy products marketed by unlicensed traders

"Post Harvest losses"

• Lack of realization of the anticipated value of milk

Results to date -

US$56 million loss in 3 countries

Uganda:

Value of dairy losses US $ 23 million

• Marketable milk 585m litres

• Quantity of milk/product lost 123m litres

• Losses

• Percentage loss 21%

Losses

• Farm level

  1. Milking
  2. Spillage and spoilage
  3. Lack of preservation/cooling

Losses

• Milk collection and transportation

Milk containers

Collection routes

Roads/infrastructure

Losses

• Milk processing

• Lack of know how

• Lack of suitable, low-cost technologies

• Market awareness/business planning

Reducing losses

• Technology Transfer

• Training

• Information

Training of trainers course

• Participants, nominations and screening

• Losses - why and where

• Loss reducing technologies and organization

• Develop National Action Plan - training

Lessons learned

• Partners, participation of countries - level

• Define activities

• Implementation - based on existing facilities/improved abilities

• Follow up national training

SSD workshop aims

• to brief APHCA members on the FAO SSD programme

• to share experiences on SSD from the Asia-Pacific region

• if appropriate, to develop a joint APHCA-FAO SSD initiative for Asia and the Pacific

Asian region

Suggestions:

1. Market opportunities - population growth

2. Technology development and transfer

3. Increased self reliance and intra-regional trade

4. Reduced dependence on external dairy goods

5. Role/importance of small producers

Regional Initiative

• Is it needed?

• Mandate to develop

• Groups on

  1. Scoping

  2. Technology transfer

  3. Training

FAO can offer

• Design appropriate intervention based on practical experience and lessons learned

• Adapt to needs

• Ensure sustainability - business/group enterprise development

• Fund and attract funding partners - CFC/ADB/Japan

Way forward

• Concerted action

• Role of APHCA

• Take success stories and adapt

  Information,

  Training

  Technology transfer

Thank you for your attention