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Eritrea Policy Brief
The Contribution of Livestock to the National Economy of
Eritrea
This policy brief is pegged on the outcome of the VETGOV programme conducted jointly by AU-IBAR and IGAD on the contribution of livestock to Eritrea’s national economy and assesses and assigns monetary values to the marketed and non-marketed goods and services that livestock provide and the extent to which this contribution is reflected in the national account. The study deviates from the previous commodity flow approach applied by the Eritrea Statistics Office for calculating GDP to a production approach as adopted in similar studies in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan. The production approach relies on estimates of the amount of physical product generated on average by a given number of
animals while putting monetary contribution in terms of draft power, household food security, manure and on-farm savings bank.
