Policy Brief: Bridging the Gap in Rural Veterinary Services
Livestock diseases and associated costs are considered the principal economic threat to the livelihood of poor rural livestock farmers. In Nigeria, Newcastle disease (NCD) and Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) are the two major threats to livestock security; both diseases have the capacity to wipe out between 90 to 100 percent of livestock flocks, resulting in great financial losses. The first outbreak of NCD in 2008 led to financial losses of $76 million and the annual burden due to PPR is estimated to be $2.1 billion…
Propcom Mai-karfi Closeout Report 2012-2021
Propcom Mai-karfi (PM) was a nine-year, rural and agricultural market development programme funded by the UK Government. The £27 million first phase of PM (2012-2017) targeted the 19 states in Northern Nigeria. A £24 million extension was approved for an additional 31 months to March 2021, bringing the total value to £51 million. In April 2020, a final 9-month time extension was approved, taking the Programme to December 2021. PM sought to stimulate sustainable pro-poor growth in selected rural markets using a ‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’ (M4P) approach. The Programme worked as a ‘market facilitator’, identifying constraints in market systems and facilitating changes to enable rural markets to work better for the benefit of poor smallholder farmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs…
Making Markets Work for the Poor
Poverty is reducing substantially for many millions of people and a critical reason for this achievement is improved functioning of markets. Countries that have been successful in reducing poverty have utilised and shaped markets to provide the right conditions – jobs, opportunities, services, information – to allow people to raise their incomes. In short, they have made the markets in which the poor exist – as consumers, producers and workers – work more effectively for them….
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